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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

Next: Header files Up: Programming in C Previous: Exercises . This Chapter deals with theoretical and practical aspects that need to be considered when writing larger programs. When writing large programs we should divide programs up into modules. These would be separate source files. main() would be in one file, main.c say, the others will contain functions. ... UNIX utilities such as make help us maintain large systems (see later). Header files . ... The Make Utility . ...

... Telescopes . ... The time requests are accepted in an electronic version with on-line form in Russian or English. ... Unregistered request will be disregarded by the Large Telescopes Programm Committee. In exclusive cases the secreatry of the Committee is entitled to accept an observational time request given permission of the Chairman of the Committee or the director of the SAO RAS. The Program Committee considers generally one time request submitted by the principal applicant. ...

... Events . ... COSMOS 2009 - Ireland's Spring Star Party . The Irish Node for the International Year of Astronomy is announcing that this year St PatrickтАЩs Festival celebrations in all major cities in Ireland are endorsing an astronomy theme. In Dublin , this yearтАЩs theme for the festival Parade is тАШ The SkyтАЩs the Limit! тАЩ . ... Monday, 16 March 2009 00:49 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Olympus Mons on Mars: The Largest Volcano . ... 15.09.1997 . ... Credit: Mariner 9 , JPL , NASA Explanation: The largest volcano in the Solar System is on Mars. Olympus Mons rises 24 kilometers high and measures 550 km across. By comparison, Earth' s largest volcano, Mauna Loa in Hawaii , rises 9 km high and measures 120 km across. ... September 1997 . ... 1997 1998 . ... Publications with keywords: volcano - Mars - Olympus Mons . Publications with words: volcano - Mars - Olympus Mons . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... The Large Southern Array (LSA) is a European project involving the construction of a new-generation, Southern Hemisphere, millimetre-wave synthesis telescope. ...

... September 15, 1997 . Olympus Mons on Mars: The Largest Volcano . ... Olympus Mons rises 24 kilometers high and measures 550 km across. By comparison, Earth' s largest volcano, Mauna Loa in Hawaii , rises 9 km high and measures 120 km across. ... Olympus Mons is a shield volcano , built by fluid lava. Over the next three years, Mars Global Surveyor , which arrived at Mars last week, will photograph the planet at such high resolution that objects only 100 meters across will be visible. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... According to Ron Miller, author of the respected history of spaceship concepts The Dream Machines , the first known appearance of the tale in print was in the 2 October Тљ1909 issue of Scientific American where the hero was named т??Wang Tuт?? ... Naming a crater after Wan Hu т??the legendary Chinese inventorт?? was proposed shortly after the Soviet probe Zond 3 flew past the Moon in July 1965 returning images of the Moon?s western farside. ...

... Up: Surveys & Large Scale Data Management . ... The CoCat (Co-processor Catalogue) project main goal is to parallelize the VizieR large catalogue treatments (data extraction, cross-matching) for reducing the response time. ... Figure 2: The CoCat cluster. As the Sun server is becoming overloaded we decided to move the set of large catalogues to a Linux cluster (the CoCat cluster). ... The CoCat cluster involves one master node and five slave nodes (Fig 2 ). ...

Next: *imcopy* - Compress an Up: Image Manipulation Previous: Image Manipulation . input file: rp90_a.imh . ... xr> images # need this package im> imcopy rp90_a[200:263,282:345] rp90_aa # extract 64x64 region from .imh file rp90_a[200:263,282:345]-->rp90_aa . ... As an example we make an input file for the smoothing task which needs small arrays or it takes too long to run. im> imcopy xdata$rp110590.qp[6830:7029,9290:9489] rp90_ab.imh # extract 200x200 region from the .qp file . ...

MICROSATELLITE PROGRAM . Great advances in the development of microelectronics, large-scale adoption of microprocessors, wide use of space technologies, ease of access to space system elements make it possible to solve a wide range of critical problems by means of microsatellites (MS), which can find use in satellite communication, Earth remote sensing, space physics and technology, education, etc. ... INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION | ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Hall of the States Building . 444 North Capitol St., NW . ... The Hall of the States Building is directly across the plaza from Union Station. ... Head right on Massachusetts Avenue for less than one block and take a left onto North Capitol Street (heading towards the U.S. Capitol). The building is on your right at 444 North Capitol Street. Important Note: The Hall of the States Building has security, and therefore checks visitors against the list of participants. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... large (8 inches or larger) . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Day-by-day lines contain complete set and intended for those who have been there (I mean, in Kyoto :) . ... Large format is mainly for 1600x1200 screens and fast link (pictures are up to 150K in size). Normal is for typical 1024x768 screen (i.e. 15" monitors). ... Photos look incredible on it. ... Large . ... Normal . ... Thumbnails . ... Contents with thumbnails: Large | ... Nara, one of the historical cities of Japan . ... August 17, Sunday. ... Nara. ... return to photo album contents | ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Creating NASA's Space Science Education and Public Outreach Program: The Real Stuff (Abridged) . ... This is a part of the story about how the program recently recognized by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) through its presentation of the 2006 Klumpke-Roberts Award?NASA's Space Science Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) program?was actually planned and implemented. ...

Titan . ... Hubble Space Telescope Images of Titan's surface . ... Later that year, it will release the European-built Huygens probe for a descent through Titan's atmosphere. ... This artist's rendering shows the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descending into the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan after being released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ... This artist's rendering shows the Huygens probe on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan after being released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ...

Next: Selection effects Up: Emission-line galaxies Previous: Emission-line galaxies . ... O III ] ? ... In Fig. 4 emission-line galaxies from the HSS sample are plotted in comparison with some BCGs from the SBS (Izotov et al. [ 1994 ], [ 1997b ]; Thuan et al. [ 1995 ]) and ELGs from the Case survey (Weistrop & Downes [ 1988 ], [ 1991 ]; Augarde et al. ... We tentatively classify it as a possible LINER (low-ionization nuclear emission-line region galaxies; Heckman [ 1980 ]). ... emission lines. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... From the chain visibility point of view, it is very recommended to look at the Javascript movies , especially if the frame rate can be not regulated in your MPEG player. ... The non-CH-associated large-scale chains visible on the SOHO/EIT images at three wavelengths of 171, 195 and 284 as well as on the MLSO/HAO He I 10830 spectroheliogram of December 16, 1997. ... The SOHO/EIT movies at 171 and 195 show the chain dynamics on June 1-3, 1998. ... Javascript movie (230 KB), SOHO/EIT, 171 . ...

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