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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... 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. ...

... John Butler reports that the HLF-supported programme of restoration of three historic telescopes and their domes has continued throughout the year, and that a growing collection of images showing progress with the Telescopes and Telescope Domes restoration project is available on the Armagh Observatory web-site (see http://star.arm.ac.uk/history/Domes/). ... The new dome for the 18-inch Calver Telescope is now fully operational and awaits the return of the telescope to Armagh later in 2005. ...

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The Planewave Instruments 20-inch (0.5-meter) f/6.8 corrected Dall-Kirkham telescope at Moore Observatory in Kentucky and its identical companion at Mt. ... The CDK20 North at Moore Observatory has been our primary platform for developing technology for remote and robotic operation in the Shared Skies program. ... g'r'z'i' filter wheel . ... Axis quad video server to send realtime video to the remote observer . ... Telescope monitor camera in the dome also on the video server . ...

... The ANU 2.3m telescope building, the Anglo-AuтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: The ANU 2.3m telescope building, the Anglo-Australian Telescope dome and the ANU 24-inch telescope dome. ... NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. No use may be made of any of the images without Dr Shobbrook's written permission. ... The ANU 2.3m telescope building, the Anglo-Australian Telescope dome and the ANU 24-inch telescope dome. ...

... The Wingaersheek Observatory and Telescope . Mario Motta and Scott Milligan . ... For the May meeting I was hoping to show a completed telescope, but it always takes twice as much time to make over 400 parts than you think. ... A new design that has near zero aberrations (no Newtonian coma, for example), made from all spherical surfaces, and would help me build the optics, including fabricating the main mirror. ... Other Monthly Meetings . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 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 . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . The Bradford Robotic Telescope has now been completely rebuilt and is operating in a new dome at the Observatorio del Teide 8,000 feet up on the Island of Tenerife. The new telescope has been designed as a completely free robotic system to support the understanding of astronomy. ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Work begins on the world?s most powerful radio telescope . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... SKA Aperture Array in Australia . ... Even in its earliest phase (SKA1), the radio telescope will be the fastest and most sensitive in the world. ... A further two instruments will be in the Western Australian desert: one being an array of many hundreds of aerial clusters working at low radio frequencies, the other a range of around 90 dishes ? ...

... 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. ...

Next: The Computer Hardware Up: The Care and Previous: Introduction . ... The weather is not as bad as one might expect, base on statistics from 1991 through 1993 one can expect about 120 usable nights a year with about thirty of those being totally cloudless. ... This, along with the fact that the telescope drive motor is misgeared, made it difficult for the telescope to collect research data. ... The dome houses a 14" Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope that was installed in 1981. ...

... Table of Contents - Subject Index - Author Index - Search . Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XII . ... The Subaru Telescope Software Trinity System . ... Science Goal Driven Observing . ... SIRTF Web Based Tools for QA and Instrument Performance Monitoring . ... Monitoring the Chandra X-ray Observatory via the Wireless Internet . B. D. Spitzbart, S. J. Wolk, and R. A. Cameron . COSMOS-3: The Third Generation Telescope Control Software System of Nobeyama Radio Observatory . ...

... VLT: A New Largest Optical Telescope . ... 1.09.1996 . ... But an even larger optical telescope is being built. Dubbed the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is building four 8.2-meter mirrors in Chile which together will act as a single telescope with a mirror diameter of over 16-meters. ... Publications with keywords: optical - VLT - telescope . Publications with words: optical - VLT - telescope . ... Earth Rotating Under Very Large Telescopes . ...

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... Although many of the images are used for teacher-driven activities, students do have the opportunity to work with scientists on original research projects. ... The primary goal is to have teachers experience astronomy research and then to bring the research data into their classrooms via the internet. ... They also learn how to process their data, build a solar telescope to take home to their classrooms, and learn background information from astronomers in each of the three research areas. ...

... Space Flight . ... August . June . ... July . ... Posted on August 20, 2014 | No Comments The good news first: a major aerospace contractor is researching how to build a reusable spaceplane that could dramatically cut the cost of accessing low Earth orbit. ... Continue Reading.. ... 133 Comments June 2014 saw excited reports that NASA was working on a faster than light warp drive starship. ... Posted on July 30, 2014 | ... Posted on June 26, 2014 | ...

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20-23 September 2016, St.Petersburg, Russia . ... Registration to the Symposium will be held in the main building of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Monday 19th September, from 18:00 to 21:00 . ... Registration will also be available on Tuesday September 20th from 8:00 to 9:00 at the conference venue. ... Conference dinner will take place in the Palace of Grand duke Vladimir (Academics House) on Wednesday 21th September, from 19:00 to 22:00 . ...

... Telescope . ... Low and medium resolution imaging spectrometer TFOSC (TUBITAK Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera) was build at Copenhagen University Observatory, and is similar in its layout to DFOSC at Danish 1.54-m, ALFOSC at NOT and to other instruments of this serie. ... CCD camera --- 2K x 2K Firechild, 30.72 x 30.72 mm. The field of view --- 13.3' x 13.3'. Filters --- Bessel (UBVRI), SDSS (u'g'r'i'z'), narrow-band filters. ... crossdispersion . ... 12.0 . ...