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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Large Tsunami Shock Wave on the Sun . ... 25.09.2011 . ... September 2011 . ... 2011 2012 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Publications with keywords: Sun - flare . Publications with words: Sun - flare . ... SDO s Multiwavelength Sun . An Active Sun During a Total Eclipse . ... All the Colors of the Sun . ...

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In 1995 Eugene set an annual rainfall record by recording, officially, 65.56 inches of rain. ... The mean annual rainfall for Eugene from the 25 year period 1970-1994 was 51.5 inches with a dispersion of 8 inches. ... Wettest Years: . ... Below are the official NWS corrected rain totals for the year 1996. Although these are now "official", I go on record here by saying there is no way I believe that Eugene, Oregon received 101 inches of rain in 1996. ... January: Old = 14.74; corrected = 14.48 . ...

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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Two of the most interesting of these images, that is, a montage of last September s total lunar eclipse and a montage of a bright double rainbow that evolved into a rare spoked wheel rainbow, were recently selected for display at the exhibition of astronomical photographs, Images of Starlight , in the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, Glasnevin, Dublin. ... Click on image for larger version. ...

Variations of total ozone content and lower ozone stratosphere temperature in Antarctic Region during winter-spring period A.V. Grytsai National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv Astronomy and Space Physics Department assen@univ.kiev.ua Data, used in the work work Total ozone: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) measurements during 1979 - 2005 and Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) ones for 2006, for http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpdata.html. ... A long-term TOC decrease is significant. ...

ECLIPSES, TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS . Year 1999 . Year 2000 . Year 2001 . Year 2002 . Year 2003 . Year 2004 . Year 2005 . ... Total solar eclipse . ... Transit of Mercury across the solar disk . ... Total lunar eclipse . ... Partial solar eclipse . ... Partial lunar eclipse . ... Annular solar eclipse . ... Penumbral lunar eclipse . ... big map . ... Transit of Venus across the solar disk . ... Annular-total solar eclipse . ... Non-central annular solar eclipse . ...

... Home Observing Total Lunar Eclipse ? September 27, 2015 . ... This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ September 2015 . ... Urban Lunar Eclipses . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... Lunar Eclipse Observing Locations in New York City . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... The RAS Meteorite Collection: State on the 1 st of June, 1999 . ... About the laboratory . ... Chondrite . ... Fall 05 March 1960. 16 masses, the largest is 2.5 kg . ... Find 1991. One mass of about 9 kg . ... One mass of 532 g . ... Find 1889. 8 masse totaling 124.877 kg . ... Find 1915 and 1940. 2 masses, 736.6 kg and 24.1 kg . ... One mass of 122 kg . ... One mass of 3624 g . ... One mass of 1169.5 kg . ... One mass of 3.568 kg . ... One mass of 9.3 kg . ... One mass of 51,642 kg . ...

... Travel . ... Parkes Radio Telescope , Parkes (Australia) . Project P837, May September 2013 . ... 100-m Radio Telescope , Effelsberg (Germany) . ... Workshop H?? in Dwarf Galaxies . 15 16 July 2015, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... Conference The Periphery of Disks . 3 6 November 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 21 October 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 19 21 June 2013, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 9 11 November 2011, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 9 13 July 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ...

... 2002 October 9 . Quaoar: Large Asteroid in the Outer Solar System . ... Explanation: Asteroids almost as large as planets are still being discovered in our own Solar System . Recently an asteroid more than half the size of Pluto was found orbiting at a distance only a little further than the Solar System's most distant planet . ... Quaoar, the name suggested for the space rock by its discoverers, is one of several large asteroids discovered recently that roam in the distant Kuiper Belt . ...

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In the conference room on October 28th: . click on the thumbnail photos to see larger size ones) . At the conference room on February 1st: . ... After the official part on February 2nd: . ... At the plenary session on August 6th: . At the regular and poster sessions on August 9th: . After all in working room on August 12th: . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... solar system . ... Solar eclipse travelogue: Sulawesi delivers a spectacular eclipse . ... Observe the Solar System . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Get ready for the 2017 total solar eclipse! The next total solar eclipse visible from the continental United States occurs August 21, 2017. ... This will be the first total solar eclipse to cross our country in 38 years. ... November 25, 2014 . ...

We present a mid-infrared analysis of star-formation activity in the Large Magellanic Cloud's molecular ridge (south of 30 Doradus). The Magellanic Clouds are a rare laboratory in which extragalactic star-formation diagnostics can be tested at high spatial resolution. ... Detailed analysis in very nearby galaxies, like the Magellanic Clouds, allows us to test and better understand the scaling relations used in unresolved and distant star-formation regions. ...

... 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. ...

... 2000 September 25 . AR 9169: A Large Sunspot . ... Explanation: One of the largest sunspots in recent years is now crossing our Sun . Dominating active region AR 9169 , the sunspot is the large dark complex visible below (west) and right of center in the above photograph of our Sun taken last Thursday. ... AR 9169 holds the largest sunspot yet produced during this Solar Maximum , the time of greatest sunspot activity during the Sun's 11-year magnetic cycle . ... About APOD | ...

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