... 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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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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... 17.03.2016 . ... Explanation: Sporting a surprisingly bright , lovely green coma Comet 252P/Linear poses next to the Large Magellanic Cloud in this southern skyscape. ... In fact, it is one of two comets that will make remarkably close approaches in the next few days as a much fainter Comet Pan-STARRS (P/2016 BA14) comes within 3.5 million kilometers (9 times the Earth-Moon distance) on March 22. ... Publications with keywords: comet - LMC . ... Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud . ...

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... 2001 August 4 . Neighboring Galaxy: The Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Explanation: The brightest galaxy visible from our own Milky Way Galaxy is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Visible predominantly from Earth's Southern Hemisphere , the LMC is the second closest galaxy , neighbor to the Small Magellanic Cloud , and one of eleven known dwarf galaxies that orbit our Milky Way Galaxy. ... The brightest supernova of modern times, SN1987A , occurred in the LMC . ... About APOD | ...

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• APOD: 2000 February 22 - Neighboring Galaxy: The Large Magellanic Cloud
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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... September Perseid meteors captured by the . ... Its occurrence provides astronomers with interesting new data about the hidden trails of meteoroids тАФ small bodies ranging in size from fine dust particles to objects of marble-size and larger тАФ in the solar system and their supposed sources: comets and asteroids passing through the inner solar system. ... The particular comet that created the September Perseids is unknown...

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... STScI-PRC99-27 A CLOSER ENCOUNTER WITH MARS Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. ... In these views the north polar cap is tilted toward the Earth and is visible prominently at the top of each picture. ... Dark sand dunes that surround the polar cap merge into a large, dark region called Acidalia. ...

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• APOD: April 2, 1999 - Stars of NGC 206
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... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

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... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

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Supernova 1987A in LMC . One day in 1987, an astronomer by the name of Ian Shelton was making observations of the Tarantula Nebula in Large Magellanic cloud at Las Campanas Observatory, and he noticed something strange on his image. ... SN 1987A got as bright as 2.7, the only other recent SN even to come close was 1885A in M31 which got up to mag 6. ... Mag 4.5 . ... IAUC 4318 2/25/87 Type II? ... IAUC 7354 2/1/00 New structure in the inner ring . ... IAUC 7360 2/7/00 HST observation of new spot . ...

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... The Large Magellanic Cloud is a Dwarf Irregular galaxy in orbit around our own Milky Way. It is a large object, several degrees in size, and easily visible to the unaided eye in Southern Hemisphere skies. The LMC is located in the constellation of Doradus at about 5h30m Right Ascension, -68 degrees Declination, and lies at a distance of roughly 50 kiloparsecs (160,000 light years) from Earth. ...

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... The most spectacular view however is from space, where large areas of aurora can be observed simultaneously, even the entire polar cap. ... Such pictures often show a continuous ring of aurora around the polar cap (picture above), caused mostly by electrons leaking out along magnetic field lines, from the plasma sheet of the Earth's magnetic tail. ... Field lines from the auroral oval are believed to lead to the plasma sheet. ... A near-Earth circular polar orbit has many uses. ...

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... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... Bright prospects: Comparing the H Survey with large-scale radio continuum emission . ... Prospects for comparisons between the AAO/UKST H \ survey and large-scale radio continuum emission are considered, with particular reference to the recently completed Parkes 2.4-GHz survey of the southern Galactic Plane. ...

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You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

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Definitions of Magnitudes and Surface Brightness 1 The magnitude system 1.1 Apparent magnitude Astronomers are stuck with the antiquated old system of magnitudes and so a clear explanation of what this system is and how it relates to more sensible units is important. ... 1.2 Absolute magnitude Absolute magnitude is a logarithmic luminosity scale. ... One usually goes by the round about process of referring to the absolute magnitude of the sun. ... Magnitudes and surface brightness 6/6 ...

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Method of Calculating Cometary Orbits . ... A method of constructing a numerical theory of comet motion covering large intervals of time is presented. ... Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Near Earth Objects (NEOs), calculating cometary orbits, numerical theory of comet motion covering large intervals of time , radial component of non-gravitational acceleration , transverse component of non-gravitational acceleration , normal component of non-gravitational ...

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... News . ... NASA captures new images of large asteroid passing Earth . ... NASAт??s Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, California, has captured new radar images of asteroid 2005 YU 55 passing close to Earth. ... The image was taken November 7 at 2:45 p.m. EST, when the asteroid was approximately 860,000 miles (1.38 million kilometers) away from Earth. ... NASA detects, tracks, and characterizes asteroids and comets passing close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes. ...

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adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

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... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... August 24, 2005 . ... That says Mars will be closer to the Earth on August 27th than it has in 5000 years, and it may be 2267 until it gets this big again? ... Mars won't be closest in August, it won't be as big as the full Moon, and it was actually closer back in 2003. ... It's a near-exact duplicate of an email sent around the internets back in 2003, August 2003 , to be exact, when Mars really did have a close apparition with the Earth. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... IC1396 . IC1396 - The "Elephant Trunk" Nebula . ... There is a bright central star cluster, also designated IC1396, which will interfere with your ability to see the faint nebulosity while visually observing this area with a rich-field telescope. ... 9/12/2006 through 10/21/2006 . ... Ha: 7 hours of 30 minute subs . OIII: 14 hours of 30 minute subs . SII: 9 hours of 30 minute subs ...totalling 30 hours . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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... Освоение космоса (Модератор: Chepurny ) > . E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) . ... Благодарностей: 0 . ... 13 Май 2010, 12:14:53 ? Европейский чрезвычайно большой телескоп" (European Extremely Large Telescope - E-ELT) будет построен в горах пустыни Атакама, объявила на днях Европейская южная обсерватория. ... Ответ #1 : 13 Май 2010, 12:29:34 ? ... Цитата: ds40a от 13 Май 2010, 12:29:34 Field of view: 10 arcminute diameter . ... Цитата: ds40a от 13 Май 2010, 13:28:02 И я о том-же. ...

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... F. A. Primini, and H. E. Payne, eds. Parallelization of Widefield Imaging in AIPS++ K. Golap, A. Kemball, T. Cornwell, W. Young National Radio Astronomy Observatory Abstract. ... Parallelization of Widefield Imaging in AIPS++ where : Vk (u, v )= Ik (l - lk ,m - mk )exp j 2 (u(l - lk )+ v (m - mk ))dl dm 409 The iterative multi-stage algorithm implemented in AIPS++ proceeds as follows: · Calculate residual images for all facets (using 2-D transforms). ... Recalculate residual images and repeat. ...

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