... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Images . ... Hidden Treasures . ... ESOтАЩs Hidden Treasures 2010 astrophotography competition attracted nearly 100 entries, and ESO is delighted to announce the winners. ... Stay tuned and check www.eso.org for news about ESOтАЩs Hidden Treasures 2011. ... At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope, the worldтАЩs most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory and VISTA, the worldтАЩs largest survey telescope. ...

... 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. ...

... News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Visitor list . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Narrabri Open Day and Opening of New Visitors Centre Displays . ... A public Open Day will be held at the Australia Telescope Narrabri Paul Wild Observatory on Saturday 29 July 2006 from 11am - 4pm. ... An Opening of the New Visitors Centre displays will be held for invited guests earlier in the day. ... CSIRO Visitors Centre Narrabri . ...

... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Opening of Canberra Astronomical Soc's nтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . ... Title: Opening of Canberra Astronomical Soc's new telescope.11-Dec-2004 . Description: Meade Instrument Corp (USA) and the Binocular and Telescope Shop (Sydney) donated a Meade LX200 GPS telescope to CAS to replace telescopes and instruments lost in the fires of 18 Jan 2003. ... After delivery to CAS the Meade was housed inтАж . Views: 1012 . ... CAS Grand Opening, Christmas 2004 . ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... Products] -local . ... Tutorial] -local . ... SITe 2k x 2k helps VLT Project produce images with 8.2-meter telescope at Paranal Observatory. SITe CCDs in Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Oregon-developed technology helping Hubble Space Telescope see. Visit SITe's booth at the Photonics West Show: . ... 23-29, 1999) . NASA Honoring SITe Backthinned-Technology CCD for Its Role in Combating Breast Cancer. ...

... Credit Copyright: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope , J.-C. Cuillandre ( CFHT ), Coelum Explanation: Open clusters of stars can be near or far, young or old, and diffuse or compact. ... Bright blue stars frequently distinguish younger open clusters. ... NGC 2158 's bright blue stars have self-destructed , leaving cluster light to be dominated by older and yellower star s. Both clusters are visible toward the constellation of Gemini -- M35 with binoculars and NGC 2158 with a small telescope. ...

... January 16, 1996 . Wild Duck Open Cluster M11 . ... Explanation: Many stars like our Sun were formed in open clusters . The above open cluster, M 11, contains thousands of stars and is just over three thousand light years distant. ... The many bright stars in the cluster appear blue. Open clusters , also called galactic clusters, contain fewer and younger stars than globular clusters . Also unlike globular clusters , open clusters are generally confined to the plane of our Galaxy . ...

... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Two open clusters in Canis Major, emission nebula NGC 2316, and spiral galaxy NGC 2280 . January 21 28, 2016: Open clusters NGC 2204 and NGC 2243 in Canis Major offer small-telescope owners nice views, while large-telescope owners can seek out emission nebula NGC 2316 in Monoceros and sprial galaxy NGC 2280 in Canis Major. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... We will be open from 7pm-9pm with a screening of our Digital Theatre show тАЬBeyond the Blue: A Stargazing JourneyтАЭ at 7.30pm. This Theatre show is a tour around the night sky as seen from Ireland at this time of the year. ... This open night is ideal for anyone starting out in astronomy or wanting to learn more about the night sky and donтАЩt forget to wrap up warm!* ... Cost: Free . ...

... Robert Hill (Northern Ireland Space Office at Armagh Planetarium) . ... On Wednesday 7 January 2009 the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009), in which the Armagh Observatory and Armagh Planetarium are playing a major role, was officially opened in Ireland in the presence of the Irish President Mary McAleese and the Northern Ireland Minister for Education, Caitr ona Ruane, in a launch ceremony at the BT Young Scientist Technology Exhibition at the Royal Dublin Society, Dublin. ...

ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

... 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. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Opening of Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... SKA production design with Cambridge Consultants Ltd . ... Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology have historically been among the very strongest scientific disciplines in Cambridge. ... Paul Alexander, Head of the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and Director of the Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, is the leader of CambridgeБЂ™s involvement in the SKA: . ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

... Since 2011 our observatory is a member of GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science) project - wide international collaboration of 13 scientific institutions from 8 countries aiming at opening public access to robotic telescopes, as well as propagating astronomy in general. The GLORIA Project offers Internet users the possibility of studying the sky from professional observatories. ... The experiments are available at the users site of GLORIA. ... About GLORIA . ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

Arecibo is joining 16 other telescopes around the world to form a 'global telescope' to celebrate the start of the International Year of Astronomy. The observations, coordinated from the Netherlands, will follow three quasars for a 24-hour period. Arecibo will join the observations on January 15 between 11 am and 1:15 pm and between 5 and 8 pm (Puerto Rican time). ... Information on activities in Puerto Rico during the International Year of Astronomy can be found at Astronomy2009pr.org . ...