... 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. ...

... Science Users Information Future Facilities and Development E-ELT jump to navigation jump to content . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... In December 2012 ESO Council fully approved the E-ELT Programme ( more , more , even more , still more ). ... In December 2014 ESO Council approved the construction of the E-ELT in two phases, and authorised spending on Phase 1 . ... 15 Jan 2012] Announcement of the E-ELT Workshop "Shaping E-ELT Science and Instrumentation" , 25 February 01 March 2013 . ...

... Development of Mini-MegaTORTORA (MMT) - a multichannel wide-field optical monitoring system with high temporal resolution . ... The MMT system is a robotic multichannel (9-objective) optical telescope with an approximate field of view of 900 square degrees and a temporal resolution of 0.1 seconds, equipped with a system of accumulation, analysis and storage of observed data. ... The list of objects and the observed material is supplemented and updated by new and archived observational data. ...

home education > resources . ... Education from Mercury . ... Selected Topical Bibliographies . Astronomy Education Bibliography . ... Astronomical Pseudo-Science . ... Foothill College the Astronomical Society of the Pacific) . ... Sletteback, A. Jettner, F. "Proceedings of the Conference on Education in Astronomy, August 1969" in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 2, p. 254 (1970). ... Accompanied, later in the same book, by a "Catalog of National Astronomy Education Projects".) ...

... In addition to its primary research role, the Armagh Observatory has an important secondary responsibility (a) to maintain and preserve the fabric of the historic buildings, the library, historic books and archives, and the collection of scientific instruments and other artefacts built up over more than two hundred years of continuous astronomical activity in Armagh, and (b) to advance public understanding of science, and of astronomy in particular. ... 2004 Robinson Lectures, 25-26 November 2004 . ...

... Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9DL, UK . ... We present the Virtual Radio Interferometer, a Java applet which allows the demonstration of earth-rotation aperture synthesis by simulating existing and imaginary telescopes. ... The use of the Java language is discussed, and the role of the language, within the astronomical software context, reviewed. ... The resulting program was called the Virtual Radio Interferometer (VRI). ...

... All engineering models of scientific equipment were assembled in the configurations for tests in Pushchino. The SRT was attached to special supporting frame (weight compensator), and LNA cooling system (NSOTR) was installed on the Focal Container. ... EM Engineering Model . FC Focal Container - hermetic package with the scientific payload; . ... OHCFS-SRT Space Radio Telescope On-board Heterodyne . ... SRT Space Radio Telescope (all scientific payload including 10-m dish) . ...

STScI . HST . ... HST Overview . ... Data Analysis . ... CONTENTS: - GHRS NEWS + Update on calhrs Bug + Calibrations in Cycle 6 + Early Implementation of Cycle 6 Observations - Scientific Programmer Positions Available at STScI - RECENT PREPRINTS - APPENDIX: GHRS CONTACTS ================================================================================ Update on calhrs Bug -------------------- Last month we reported on a problem in calhrs that causes it to crash when it encounters fill data. ...

... Should be broken out by telescope within a facility.) ... Should be broken out by telescope within a facility.) - # programs allocated time ­ number of programs with non- staff PI's ­ number of programs with observatory staff as PI's ­ number of thesis programs ­ number with U.S. PI's ­ number with foreign PI's ­ information on geographic distribution - # states, # institutions, characterization of institution (R1, PUI, etc), if information ...

... Educational programs (Russian) . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... International relations . ... The 43rd International Exhibition of Inventions took park from April 15 to April 19 in Geneva (Salon international des inventions Gen ve), which was attended by the authors from 45 countries of the world. ... Under the exhibition jury decision SSAU development was awarded a gold medal and received a special prize and its authors have got honorary diplomas. ...

... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main research and development work completed in 2012 and ready for implementation . ... Main research and development work completed in 2011 and ready for implementation . Main research and development work completed in 2010 and ready for implementation . Main research and development work completed in 2009 and ready for implementation . Main research and development work completed in 2008 and ready for implementation ...

... The damage to NIFS has freed up the RSAA instrumentation team to concentrate on the timely delivery of the Gemini South Adaptic Optics Imager (GSAOI). ... GSAOI is the second instrument that ANU is building for Gemini. ... GSAOI Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/gsaoi/ NIFS Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/nifs/ RSAA Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ Australian Gemini Project Office Website: http://www.ausgo.unsw.edu.au/ Gemini Public Information Website: http://www.gemini.anu.edu.au/public/ . ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... THE UNITED NATIONS BASIC SPACE SCIENCE INITIATIVE Hans J. Haubold United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, Vienna International Centre, A-1400 Vienna, Austria (hans.haubold@unvienna.org) Pursuant to recommendations of the United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III) and deliberations of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer ...

... 1024 x 1024 pixels (13.3 mm) . ... APOGEE U-47UV 13 um pixel, back-illuminated, UV enhanced . Read-out time: . 1 sec for the whole field, 1x1 binning . Pixel Scale: . ... 1.25 e-/ADU (left, right) . Read-out noise, e: . ... 0.1 e-/sec at T ~ -30C . ... 4096 x 4096 pixels (36.9 mm) . ... Apogee U16M-HC, 9 um pixel, KAF-16803, front-illuminated . ... 24 sec, 1x1 binning . ... 1.4 e-/ADU . ... 0.01 e-/sec at CCD T ~ -40C . ... ADU saturation: . ...

Next: NICMOS Science Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: NICMOS Software at the . ... Reference File Tools . Image Analysis and Reduction . ... These include the tasks used in the STScI pipeline, tools to generate the reference files used by the calibration pipeline tasks, and general image analysis, manipulation, and arithmetic tasks. ... Calnica is used to apply instrumental calibrations to individual datasets, while calnicb is used to process associated sets of NICMOS images. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI CAS Wiki . SAI Web Services . ... Development . arXiv.org Search . ... Astronomical Thesaurus . ... We are working on the following projects, which we consider as of BETA quality: . ... PLASTIC interface to SAI CAS . ... We created a simple PLASTIC-ized interface to SAI CAS for communication between ConeSearch and any other plasticized VO tools , such as locally-running TOPCAT , The Aladin Sky Atlas. ... SAI MSU | ...

... 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 ? ...

is an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Her work at the CfA includes astronomy curriculum development for elementary schools, Internet-based hands-on astronomy activities for K-8, and science-oriented public outreach programs. She has logged over a thousand hours in Massachusetts elementary school classrooms implementing science curricular materials and giving presentations about recent astronomical events. ... Everyday Classroom Tools Home Page . ...

INAF staff researcher at the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri in the Adaptive Optics Group. ... INAF - Osservatorio di Arcetri . ... pinna@arcetri.astro.it . ... Since 2004 I'm involved in the development of high order Adaptive Optics systems for ground based telescopes. ... Magellan Adaptive Optics system (collaboration with the Steward Observatory - USA) . ... The Giant Magellan Telescope adaptive optics program. ... MagAO: Status and on-sky performance of the Magellan adaptive optics system. ...

EURASIAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY . ... INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM . ASTRONOMY - 2005: CURRENT STATE AND PROSPECTS" . ... The conference "Astronomy - 2005: Current State and Prospects" is to be held in Moscow, Russia, on May 30 - June 6, 2005, in the frame of the Scientific Program of the 8th General Meeting of the Eurasian Astronomical Society. The main goal of the Symposium is to analyze the current state and possible prospect of astronomical science and work out a strategy of its development. ...