... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... On Nov 20, 1995, a suborbital rocket payload launched from Woomera, Australia obtained the first ultraviolet polarimetry of diffuse light in a galaxy. The Wide-Field Imaging Survey Polarimeter ("WISP") is a fast off-axis Schmidt telescope with ultraviolet polarimetric optics and a UV-sensitized CCD. ... In this poster we will compare the WISP data with visible and infrared images of the LMC, with the goal of delineating the geometric distribution of the diffuse dust in the LMC. ...

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... This is a false color image of HR 4796A composed of visible and near-IR light (blue=STIS, green=1.71 micron, red=2.22 micron). It's red color is caused by dust grains that scatter light poorly in the visible and very efficiently in the near-IR. This images shows the debris disk around HD 61005, and a model of debris disk dust grains being blown by and interstellar wind. This work was a Goddard web feature (look there for a cool movie showing one of the models). ...

... The light baffles consist of the wind baffle that surrounds the telescope and doubles as a light baffle, the primary baffle that extends from the primary center-hole toward the secondary (left), the secondary baffle that extends from the perimeter of the secondary toward the primary (right), and the conical baffle that is suspended approximately halfway between the primary and secondary (middle). The wind baffle is covered with panels that are 25% porous to the wind. ...

... The British consortium, currently led by Professor Gordon Bromage of the University of Central Lancashire , includes the Universities of Keele , Nottingham and Southampton , the Open University and Armagh Observatory and will be joining the other partners in the SALT project, from South Africa, Poland, Germany, USA and New Zealand. ... SALT Dome . ... The SALT project is managed by a team based at the SALT Headquarters at Sutherland and South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town. ...

... The M81 Galaxy Group Through the Integrated Flux Nebula . ... Large galaxies and faint nebulae highlight this deep image of the M81 Group of galaxies. First and foremost in the wide-angle 12-hour exposure is the grand design spiral galaxy M81, the largest galaxy visible in the image. ... Colorful NGC 1579 resembles the better known Trifid Nebula, but lies much farther north in planet Earth's sky, in the heroic constellation Perseus. ... The Seagull Nebula . ... Warped Spiral Galaxy ESO 510 13 . ...

. ATLAS is a project to image seven square degrees of sky, in two fields (CDF-S and ELAIS-S1), at radio wavelengths, to an rms of about 15 Jy, making it the widest deep radio survey aver attempted. The fields are chosen to cover the Spitzer Wide-Area IR Extragalactic Survey (SWIRE), and the radio images cut through the dust, to trace the cosmic history of AGN and star-forming galaxies. This page last updated by Ray Norris 5-Mar-2007

... Table of Contents - Subject Index - Author Index - Search . Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII . ... The ESO Imaging Survey Project: Building a Survey Software System . ... Data Archive and Transfer System (DARTS) of ISAS . ... Transparent XML Binding using the ALMA Common Software (ACS) Container/Component Framework . ... The ALMA Archive: A Centralized System for Information Services . ... Flexible Storage of Astronomical Data in the ALMA Archive . ...