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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... Gallery . Siding Spring Observatory by day - Tim WetherтАж . Siding Spring Observatory's 2.3 m telescтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: Siding Spring Observatory's 2.3 m telescope (internal) . Description: NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ... Siding Spring Observatory's 2.3 m telescope (internal) NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ...

... A growing collection of images showing progress with the Telescopes and Telescope Domes restoration project is available on the Armagh Observatory web-site (see star.arm.ac.uk/history/Domes/ ). The project has been progressed satisfactorily and close to its original budget. ... The outer copper skin of the dome has been replaced with new pre-patinated copper sheeting. ... The Sinden Optical Company has made considerable progress with the restoration of the 1835 Grubb 15-inch reflector. ...

. " The Arecibo Observatory is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations . expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation."

... This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... Great Refractor . ... Image Credit: B.F. Nutting, A. Sonrel . ... One thing that seems to be missing from this image is a finder telescope. ... The image is credited this way: . ... Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College / History and Description of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College vol. ...

... Main . ... Telescope . ... Diameter of the main mirror, mm . ... The length of the telescope tube, mm . ... Weight of the main mirror, kg . ... Weight of the main mirror in holder, kg . ... Weight of the telescope, kg . ... field of . ... 1:7.7, with corrector . ... 1:7.7, without corrector . ...

... Members . ... The ATM's of Boston was founded in 1934 by a group of persons interested in assisting others in the art of optical polishing the craft of telescope making, and to learn together about the science of astronomy and the use of astronomical instruments. ... Mr. Jones introduced the club to Dr. Harlow Shapley at Harvard College Observatory. ... Regular shop activities resumed with the help of these "professional amateurs" and the club grew to 180 members. ... Club Newsletters . ...

... Current APO Weather . ... Search Site . ... Information for New Users . ... Technical Staff pages . Night Logs and Mailing Lists (maintained by APO) . ... Technical Documents and Database Search . ... Observer's Documentation and Procedures . ... Problem Reporting and APO Technical Documents Database Search . ... APO Drawing/Document Management Procedures . ... APO Technical Documents Database Search . Home Astrophysical Research Consortium . ... Mail Lists (maintained by APO) . ...

... 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. ...

A vertical solar telescope feeds a white-light image of the Sun into the undergraduate astronomy laboratory. The coelestat mirror system shown here tracks the daily motion of the Sun and directs light downward into the telescope supported from the ceiling of the astronomy lab. ... Conditions in the ionosphere responsible for the strength of the signal are very sensitive to X-ray flux from solar flares and sudden x-ray emitting events outside the solar system, and rapidly alter the received signal. ...

... 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. ...

Observatories 1 --- | ... Mills Observatory . ... The observatory building . ... One of the conditions of the transfer was that the Observatory would move to a better site, so ROE moved from the (increasingly smoggy) City Centre to Blackford Hill, about 2 miles south. ... Rumour has it that the site (which is pretty close to being below sea level, a novel idea for an observatory) was chosen based partly on the sunshine records being kept by the town clerk in nearby Bexhill (Florida for the english). ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. July 15, 1996 . Keck: The Largest Optical Telescope . ... Alone, each is the world's largest optical telescope : Keck . ... Since opening in 1992 , the real power of Keck I (left) has been in its enormous light-gathering ability - allowing astronomers to study faint and distant objects in our Galaxy and the universe . ... About APOD | ...

... VLT: A New Largest Optical Telescope . ... 1.09.1996 . ... Credit: European Southern Observatory Explanation: What is the largest telescope in the world? ... But an even larger optical telescope is being built. ... The first of these telescopes should be completed in 1997, and all four should be completed and working together sometime in the year 2000. ... September 1996 . ... Publications with keywords: optical - VLT - telescope . Publications with words: optical - VLT - telescope . ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Projects . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Donations . ... In 1995, Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (now Goodrich Optical and Space Systems Division, Electro-Optical Systems) donated to Winer a 2/3-m (26.5-inch) Corning Ultra Low Expansion ULE lightweighted mirror. Using this donation as a basis, we entered into a project with a private, non-sectarian school to design and build a telescope for the school and one for us. ...

About us . ... Telescopes . ... Apart from the 6-meter telescope BTA two small telescopes are operative at SAO: the 1-m and 0.6-m telescopes, both manufactured by Carl Zeiss, Jena, are located near the BTA. ... These telescopes are used for adjusting the equipment and techniques of observations used at the BTA. ... The observational time allocation and also a brief description of the equipment of the 1-m telescope, which is used either permanently or mainly on this telescope, are presented below. ...

Description and Technical Details . In 1980s two medium-size horizontal solar telescopes 50/35000 cm with large spectrographs Czerny-Turner made by Carl Zeiss Jena were installed in the Ondњejov observatory. The Czerny-Turner-spectrographs in the Ondњejov observatory called HSFA1 and HSFA2 according to the German name Horizontal-Sonnen-Forschungs-Anlage ("horizontal device for solar research") have been explored for more than two decades. ... Diffraction grating - Richardson, Spectra-Physics . ...

... General information . ... Staff . Research staff . ... Historical highlights . ... In 1831, Giovanni Battista Amici , an optician from Modena, was invited by the Grand Duke Leopold II to preside as the Professor of Astronomy and to direct the "Specola", the observatory in Florence which was attached to the Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History. ... From that year, the telescope was used by Amici's young assistant, Giovan Battista Donati, mainly for observing comets and asteroids. ...

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An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . TELESCOPES . ... Each dome contains a telescope with many mirror segments, which combine to give a light collecting area of 10 meters (about 10 yards) across. These are currently the largest light-collecting telescopes in the world, although the European Southern Observatory is building a series of four giant telescopes in Chile which will have a larger collecting area when their light is combined. ...