... 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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, operates a number of world-class radio astronomy observatories that are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility or ATNF. ... CSIRO also manages the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, where the Square Kilometre Array telescope infrastructure in Australia is to be centred. ...

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... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... January . ... By admin February 20, 2013 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . ... M42, the Great Nebula in Orion, imaged through Armagh Planetarium?s telescope in January 2013. ... Image credit: Colin Johnston/Armagh Planetarium) . ... M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, imaged with the new telescope in January 2013. ... Armagh Planetarium?s new telescope in action in January 2013. ...

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... Enjoy a bit of astronomy history this month as we welcome Dr. Daniel W.E. Green, Astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Editor of International Comet Quarterly, and Director of The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT). ... CBAT also maintains a Recent Comet Magnitudes Page which serves as a link between the work of amateur astronomers and the professional astronomical community. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Observatories 3 --- | ... The 4 8-metre telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) are coming into operation in late 1999/early 2000 at that site. ... The two shown in this picture are the domes of the 1.5 metre and 1.0 metre telescopes. ... The 1.0 metre and 2.5 metre at LCO . ... The main telescope at present is the Du Pont 2.5-metre (the largest, most distant dome in this picture); the second open dome is the 40-inch; the small dome, the Toronto 24-inch (since moved to Argentina). ...

... 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. ...

... R. E. Jackson . ... H.-M. Adorf . ... D. C. Wells . ... AstroWeb is a World Wide Web (WWW) interface to a collection of Internet accessible resources aimed at the astronomical community. ... The goal of AstroWeb is to be the most complete, up to date, and useful listing of Internet accessible astronomical resources available anywhere. ... Jackson, Wells, and Adorf noticed that they and others had created largely overlapping lists of Astronomical resources. ...

... All sky cameras at Armagh Observatory and Emyvale . Armagh Observatory meteor cameras . ... My ramblings on impacting asteroid 2008 TC3 . ... Novel by Armagh observatory astronomer: Nemesis . ... Go to Armagh Observatory home page . ... I am a Research Fellow at Armagh Observatory. ... The EURONEAR project (European Near Earth Asteroids Research) . Armagh solar system research topics . ... Armagh Observatory impact hazard page . ... Spaceguard UK and the Spaceguard Centre . ...

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Main Astronomical Observatory of NASU (GAO NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine) . ... Main Astronomical Observatory of RAS (GAO RAS, Pulkovo, Russia) . ... Institute of Astronomy of RAS (INASAN, Moscow, Russia) . Institute of Space Investigations of RAS (ISI, Moscow, Russia) . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS (IAA, St.Petersburg, Russia) . ... National Optical Astronomical Observatories (NOAO, USA) . ... Space Telescope Science Institute (STScT, USA) . ... Strasburg Centre of Astronomical Data . ...

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. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

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Astrophysics Space Missions . ... Space Physics Missions . Data Centers . ... Lectures in Space Science . ... Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) . ... University of Arizona , Theoretical Astrophysics Program Return to the top of this document . ... JHU/APL AMPTE/CCE Space Science Data Center . ... National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) . ... Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF) at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center . ... Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences/Utah State University (CASS/USU) . ...

... Alexander Gusev, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . Andrei Tokovinin, National Optical Astronomy Observatory . ... Antonia M. Varela, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias . ... Behnam Javanmardi, Shiraz University-Biruni Observatory . Boris Safonov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... Davoud Afshari, Zanjan University . ... Florian Kerber, European Southern Observatory . Gianluca Lombardi, European Southern Observatory . ... Hiroshi Matsuo, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan . ...