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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... It is indeed a feeble light that reaches us from the starry sky. ... The 9th European Symposium for the Protection of the Night Sky takes place from September 17th - 19th 2009 in Armagh, Ireland. ... Armagh City and District Council Policy - PDF Format . ... Light Pollution and Armagh Poster - PDF format . ... Parliamentary Report, Light Pollution and Astronomy - PDF Format (862K) . ... Is light pollution killing our birds?...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Saturn as you haven't seen it (Image credit: NASA/ESA) . This false colour image from the Hubble Space Telescope not only shows Saturn in an unfamiliar light, but displays some of the giant planet?s features. ... Viewing Saturn at this time not only allows us to see the famous rings almost edge on but also to observe both polar regions at once. There we see Saturn?s aurorae, analogous to Earth?s Northern lights and Southern Lights. ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.

... Дни открытых дверей к юбилею САО РАН (12-14 апреля 2016 г.) . Международная конференция "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (20-24 июня 2016 г.) . ... Международная конференция MULTI-SPIN GALAXIES - 2016 (26-30 сентября 2016 г.) . Международная астрономическая конференция "Физика звезд: от коллапса до коллапса" (3-7 октября 2016 г.) Архив . ... Подробнее.. ... 10.02.16 . ... БТА в реальном времени . ... Цейсс-1000 в реальном времени . ... Последнее обновление: 22/03/2016 ...

... NASA's Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, reached its "First Light" flight milestone during the early morning hours of May 26, when the aircraft's telescope and attached infrared camera collected light from celestial . targets for the first time at altitude. ... the Faint Object infraRed Camera for the SOFIA Telescope (FORCAST). ... For comparison, the human eye sees light with wavelengths between 0.4 and 0.7 microns.) ...

... More information on books, telescopes, clubs, etc. is available in the Getting Started section. ... For more information call 617-495-7461. Boston University Astronomy Department - Public telescopic observing is held every clear Wednesday night. ... Boston Museum of Science - For more information and admission prices call 617-723-2500. ... For information and admission prices call 508-929-2700. ... Springfield Telescope Makers , VT. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

. Album : asv-album :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1998/06 Nauchny, Katsively (Crimea, Ukraine) :: В Научном . Up . On the Observatory park alleys. Note the shielded street light (astronomers do not want extra light in the night) . Next >> . Photo album generated by album from D. Madison 's Marginal Hacks on Tue Jun 23 14:46:46 2015 .

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 26.05.1999 . ... Two weeks ago, the BATSE instrument on the orbiting NASA Great Observatory Compton detected unusually bright flashes of gamma-rays from a point deep in the southern sky. NGC 6872: A Stretched Spiral . ... What makes NGC 6872 so long? ... The galaxy's elongated shape might have something to do with its continuing collision with the smaller galaxy IC 4970, visible just above center. Introducing Nova Velorum 1999 . ... The Keyhole Nebula . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Aperture Synthesis with Light . ... MRAO Telescopes . ... Stars ? ... The astronomer?s desire to see things in ever greater detail is thwarted at optical wavelengths by the Earth?s atmosphere: making optical telescopes larger does not provide more detail in the images. ... The Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope (COAST) has been developed to meet the very demanding task of imaging the surfaces of individual stars and studying the interaction of close pairs of...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

... The research activity of the Group is mainly on the theoretical side, although our work plays an important role in the planning of scientific objectives of experiments and telescopes aimed at investigating the high energy universe, as well as being used to interpret the wealth of data that shed light on the violent universe from Earth and from Space. ... This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Such a model can reproduce much of the observed late-time evolution of the radio flux density and spectral index (though recent results for SNб 1993J (van Dyk et al. 1994) show that the Chevalier model does not adequately describe the early behaviour of radio light curves for this supernova, perhaps due to variations in the mass-loss rate and clumping in the stellar wind, which are not yet accounted for in the model). ...

... SCIENCE AND BUSINESS . Such a trifle as a starry night sky of largest observatories turned out to be a small change coin in commercial bargains for exclusive communal services in Russia, and for a few elite flats in penthouses in Ukraine. SCIENCE AND BUREAUCRATISM . ... Till in Russian) . ... Clericalization of science and education (Till in Russian). ... Researcher of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, The Moscow University. ... SAI home page . ... October, 2008) . ... November, 2007) . ...

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2011-2012 Lecture Series 2011-2012 ? тАЬA Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark (Matter)тАЭ ? Charles Keeton . ... Charles Keeton , associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rutgers University and faculty director of the Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates , will speak to the AAA Friday, March 2, on тАЬA Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark (Matter).тАЭ The free public lecture begins at 6:15 p.m. in the Kaufmann Theater of the€а American Museum of Natural History . ...

. Six spectacular spiral galaxies are seen in a clear new light in pictures from ESOтАЩs Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. The pictures were taken in infrared light, using the impressive power of the HAWK-I camera to help astronomers understand how the remarkable spiral patterns in galaxies form and evolve. ESO/P. Grosb†¦l

Participant 5 (P5) ================== Dr. V.P. Tishkovets - Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA Dr. N.N. Kiselev - Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA P.V. Litvinov - 26 years old; Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA S.A. Beletsky - 28 years old; Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA The head of the team, Dr. Tishkovets, and Mr. Litvinov made many investigations of light scattering by clusters of particles - analogues of interplanetary dust grains. ...