... Ranger 7 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight. ... Velocity at impact was 2.62 km/sec (1.62 miles per second). ... The television system consisted of a six slow-scan vidicon TV cameras capable of transmitting high-resolution, close-up television pictures of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight before the spacecraft impacted the lunar surface. ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... Apollo 14: Rickshaw Tracks Across the Moon . ... G1, pictured above, is the brightest known globular cluster in the whole Local Group of galaxies. ... In the center of M51, a spiral galaxy 23 million light-years away, astronomers have identified a dense region of young stars. ... Comet Hyakutake on a Starry Night . ... It was a starry night in April (April 9th, 1996, 9:32 pm CDT to be exact) near Lone Jack, Missouri when Comet Hyakutake graced this astronomically rich field. ... April . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2001 February 13 . NEAR Spacecraft Survives Landing on Asteroid Eros . ... Explanation: Yesterday NEAR-Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid and send signals back from its surface. Since the robot spacecraft was not designed for such a contingency , the success of the landing on asteroid 433 Eros was not assured. ...

... ATNF Colloquium . MWA progress towards SKA_LOW . by Carole Jackson (ICRAR, Curtin University) . ... Work by the "Low-Frequency Aperture Array" (LFAA) R Consortium for the future SKA telescope is concentrated on the set of antennas, on board amplifiers and local processing required for the Aperture Array telescope of the SKA. ... It is an aperture array consisting of over a quarter of a million wide bandwidth antennas of a single design. ... today * ATNF | ...

Next: Summary Up: Design Previous: Logical View . The screen design is part of the user interface development, and is a result of the storyboarding described in Section . ... This provides a good overview of how the user interface development had to be broken down to meet the design requirements. The Menu Bar is located at the top of the screen, and provides access to several functions available throughout the design session. ... The Palette of Objects is located in the upper right. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Wide view centred on the CatтАЩs Paw Nebula (NGC 6334). ... Cat's Paw Nebula , Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS 2) , NGC 6334 . ...