... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Director General . List of Directors General . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... ESO . ... VLT/Paranal . ... Survey Telescopes . ... 3D models . ... The office of ESOтАЩs Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, is already home to Frans SnikтАЩs earlier model of the E-ELT. The first example of the new VLT model was presented to de Zeeuw to sit alongside its big brother.€аFrans Snik himself made the presentation via video link. ...

... Search . ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Careers overview . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... In the regions of highest optical obscuration and infrared confusion, only 21-cm emission can be used to find galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance. ... The big breakthrough should come in the south, however, with the advent of the Parkes telescope multibeam system. ...

... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

... HST . HST Results Presented at AAS Jan. 1998 . ... Data . ... HST Peer Review Process . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Phase I Proposing . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . Cycle 23 Results . ... Mid Cycle Submission . ... Phase II Cycle 23 . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... Data Analysis . ... HST Science Year in Review . ... Phase I . ... Data Handbook . ... View the results presented at the January 1998 American Astronomical Society Meeting . ...

... Walter M. Schirra (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (Deceased) . ... Died on May 2, 2007. ... Schirra next served as backup command pilot for the Gemini III Mission and on December 15-16, occupied the Command Pilot seat on the history-making Gemini 6 flight. ... Known as a text book pilot, Schirra remained in the spacecraft following his Mercury and Gemini flight and is the first Astronaut to be brought aboard recovery ships twice in this manner. ... 1980-1981; Director, Finalco (Leasing Co.) ...

... Recent Topics . ... Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future . ... В?д: "Cambridge Scientific Publishers" . ... Тема: FW: Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future (MAO-2014) . ... Subject: Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future (MAO-2014) . ... Re: Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future (MAO-2014) . ... I read about your recent conference: Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and . ... Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future (MAO-2014) as a special issue . ...

... VLT: A New Largest Optical Telescope . ... 1.09.1996 . ... Credit: European Southern Observatory Explanation: What is the largest telescope in the world? ... But an even larger optical telescope is being built. ... The first of these telescopes should be completed in 1997, and all four should be completed and working together sometime in the year 2000. ... September 1996 . ... Publications with keywords: optical - VLT - telescope . Publications with words: optical - VLT - telescope . ...

... While "First Light" was achieved at the second 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (UT2) ahead of schedule, UT1 produced its sharpest image so far. ... It had long been ESO's intention to provide "real" names to the four VLT Unit Telescopes, to replace the current, somewhat dry and technical designations as UT1 to UT4. ... The participants were left with the impression of mounting expectations, just four weeks before the first VLT Unit Telescope, Antu (UT1), will receive the first visiting astronomers. ...

Guest Editorial , July 2006 . Past ? Present ? Future . ... SETI, the quest for reasonable signals from Space, is aimed at the Past. ... From here on Earth, we can say with good reason that conducting both searches (SETI) and transmission (METI) of reasonable signals, we appear poised just halfway between the Past and the Future: namely, in the Present! ... This editorial was submitted in response to Their Past, Our Future , by SETI League executive director emeritus H. Paul Shuch. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . ... This is a recent (November 2011) NASA diagram summing up the past, present and future (plus a might have been) of US rocketry. €аThe rockets are arranged from left to right in order of size. ... It is towards the larger end we find the most familiar vehicles in the shapes of the Shuttle (NASA?s recently retired Space Transportation System ) and Saturn 5 (still the most capable US launch vehicle to actually fly). ...

... September 1, 1996 . VLT: A New Largest Optical Telescope . Credit and Copyright: European Southern Observatory . ... Dubbed the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is building four 8.2-meter mirrors in Chile which together will act as a single telescope with a mirror diameter of over 16-meters. The first of these telescopes should be completed in 1997, and all four should be completed and working together sometime in the year 2000. ... About APOD | ...

... Penny Sackett presents a copy of the book, siтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . ... Title: Penny Sackett presents a copy of the book, signed by the authors, to John Anderson. ... Penny Sackett presents a copy of the book, signed by the authors, to John Anderson. ...

... Two high school students from Texas and Louisiana are the winners of the 2012 Priscilla and Bart Bok Awards for their astronomy projects presented at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in May. The awards were presented on May 18 by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) in partnership with the American Astronomical Society (AAS), supported by funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). ... The Bok prize is named for Bart and Priscilla Bok. ...

... Home Gallery Club Events AAA president Marcelo Cabrera presents AAA Amateur Astronomers Medal to Al Nagler of TeleVue Optics with AAA vice-president Susan Andreoli. ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... AAA president Marcelo Cabrera presents AAA Amateur Astronomers Medal to Al Nagler of TeleVue Optics with AAA vice-president Susan Andreoli. by . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

November 8, 2001 . Group of Students supported by YSC visited BMSTU. Scientific director of YSC Boris Kovalev presented Special Machinery Engineering Faculty . October 25, 2001 . Student's microsatellite project of YSC was presented on the workshop conducted by the Department of Physycs of Bauman Moscow State Technical University. ... The International Summer Aerospace Workshop "Science and Technical Creativity of the Youth in rocket-space technique" has been conducted. ...

... Summarizing the results of the Hamburg/SAO survey presented in Papers I through V, we discovered altogether from the 1-st priority candidates 433 new emission-line objects (25 of them are QSOs), and for 85 known ELGs we got quantitative data for their emission lines. ... To estimate the total number of BCGs in the HSS zone we should count new BCGs expected from the remaining candidates and those selected in the HSS, but not observed by us since they already were known from other surveys. ...

Albert A.Galeev is the director of the Russian Academy of Sciences Space Research Institute (IKI RAN in Russian), Moscow, Russia. ... Prior to his promotion to the present position, for fifteen years (1973-1988), A.Galeev headed the Space Plasma Physics Department and together with his scientific team contributed to a number of successful international space projects. ... Postal Address Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... e-mail agaleev@iki.rssi.ru ...

... A hundred years later, a handful of Tunguska-sized asteroids have been spotted by telescopes, but most remain unseen. The asteroid designated 2008 TC3 , which made the news on October 6th before colliding with the Earth on October 7th was too small to constitute a part of the "Earth impact hazard". ... 2008 TC3, for example, finally exploded in the atmosphere above Sudan . ... Wednesday, 8 October 2008 01:15 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

UNIVERSITY SYSTEM VICE PRESIDENCY OF PLANNING AND ACADEMIC AFFAIRS STUDENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERSIDAD METROPOLITANA ARECIBO OBSERVATORY Highlights Chinese Delegation visiting the Arecibo Observatory on December 7-8, 2011 The Chinese delegation representing the FAST project at the Ar ecibo Observator y with Dr. Robert Kerr, Director and Principal Investigator of the AO; and Dr. Juan F ...

Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...