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... JWST . ... In 1989 Riccardo Giacconi, then director of STScI, realizing that large space science projects take about 20 years from first development to launch, suggested that a workshop should be held about a followup to HST. ... An obvious science driver was studying galaxies at high redshift, which was at that time a redshift of about 1. ... This had not been expected of the 2.4m Hubble Telescope, extrapolating ground based experience of galaxies extended over 1 arcsec or more to high redshift. ...

. Cambridge . MRAO . Bojan Nikolic web pages home . Next: Memo on inference of phase correction coefficients... Previous: My talk at JAO/ALMA FP6 Enhancement meeting... | . For the next two weeks I'm in Chile visiting the ALMA offices in Santiago as well as the ALMA site itself where we will be doing some experiments with the ALMA Water Vapour Radiometers. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. blog comments powered by Disqus . Copyright 2012, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome

An optional visit to the ALMA Telescope following the workshop is planned for participants, leaving Santiago de Chile on the afternoon of Friday, April 11 and returning to Santiago on Sunday, April 13. ... From the ALMA website: . ... Participants wishing to visit ALMA on April 12 will need to: Purchase a Santiago de Chile (Code:SCL) to Calama (Code:CJC) airline ticket from LAN Chile, leaving on Friday, April 11. ... LAN 346 (leaves Santiago 3:35 PM ; arrives in Calama 5:45 PM . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS-RELEASE . ... to S.P. Korolev RSC Energia . A delegation from the House of Representatives of the US Congress headed by Congressman James Walsh has visited this afternoon S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia. ... Congressmen, in the person of J. Walsh, expressed a high opinion of the progress of work on ISS in Russia with the prime role of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, and noted the highest level of professionalism of the company's employees. ...

... 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. ...

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... We describe a systematic, regular testing program for CCDs which is now being applied at La Silla. ... The test are integrated in the CCD reduction package of the Munich Image Data Analysis System (ESO-MIDAS). ... To that end, we have instigated a systematic program of standard CCD tests at ESO, La Silla. ... The test program has been integrated in the CCD reduction package of the Munich Data Analysis System (ESO-MIDAS) (ESO 1993), and will be available in the 94NOV release. ...

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... 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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Telescopes and Observatories . Space Flight . ... Continue Reading.. ... 2 Comments The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an intergovernmental research organisation for astronomy which is supported by fifteen countries. ... 23 Comments Gleaned from NASA and Hubblesite.org, here are some facts you may not know about the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). 1.€а€а€а€а€а The HSTтАЩs history is longer than you might have [ ] . ...

. Pulkovo Observatory . Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 .

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... On properties of strong gravitational field of a collapsar in gravidynamics .. S.N. S o kolo v . ... Study of relativistic objects G.M. Beskin, S.N. Mitronova, S.I. Neizvestny, V.L. Plokhotnichenko, M.Yu. ... A.A. Panferov, S.N. Fabrika, L.V. Bychkova, V.Yu. ... G.M. Beskin, V.L. Oknyanskij. ... A.V. Zhuravkov, A.A. Pimonov, V.L. Plokhotnichenko. ... V.F. Shvartsman, G.M. Beskin, S.I. Neizvestny, V.L. Plokhotnichenko, L.A. Pustil'nik. The search for optical signals of cosmic civilizations.. ...

... Bhattacharia, D. & van den Heuvel, E.P.J. 1991, Phys. Rep. ... Churazov, E. et al. 1994, in ``Frontiers of Space and Ground Based Astronomy", eds. W.Wamsteker et al., ... Kornilov, V.G. & Lipunov, V.M. 1983a, AZh, 60, 284 . ... van den Heuvel, E.P.J. 1983, in ``Accretion Driven Stellar X-ray Sources", Eds. Lewin, W.H.G. & van den Heuvel, E.P.J., Cambridge Univ. ... van den Heuvel, E.P.J. 1994, in ``Interacting Binaries", Eds. Shore, S.N., Livio, M., & van den Heuvel, E.P.J., Berlin, Springer, p. 442...

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My site without frames, i.e. the following page alone. ... Electronic preprints of AI SPbU . ... All-Russian Astronomical Conference site local version . ... Popular paper on Astronomy in (Russian) Internet . ... Dr. Vladimir B. Il'in . ... Back to top . ... Astronomical Institute "Anton Pannekoek" preprints . ... Five College Astronomy Department preprints . ... BAAS - Bulletin American Astronomical Society . PASP - Publications Astronomical Society Pacific . ... Astronomy . ... ISO home page . ...

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Space Agencies and Centres . Space research . ... BNSC - British National Space Centre . ... CNES - Centre National d' tudes Spatiales, France . ... NASDA - National Space Development Agency (Earth Observation Center), Japan . ... NASA Spacelink , includes information about the Mir station . ... John F. Kennedy Astronomy Observatory , contains rich list of astronomy sites . ... LIFE Magazine Space Links . ... Copyright RSSI 1993-1997, Space Research Institute RAS Network Information Centre ...

... The Australian National University, Private Bag, . ... 1968 BA Honours in Natural Science, Wadham College, Oxford University. ... 1974 October Selected by the Royal Astronomical Society as UK Young Astronomer . ... 1975 August Research Fellow at the Australian National University. ... 1979 November Fellow at the Australian National University. 1982 March Australian Project Scientist to the STARLAB project. ... 1983 December Senior Fellow at the Australian National University. ...