... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > La Silla Facilities > La Silla Science Operations . ... La Silla News . ... Internal Pages . La Silla Science Operations Department (LSO) is part of the La Silla Paranal Observatory and is in charge of the operations of the telescopes on La Silla. ... In the La Silla Science Operation pages, you should find all the information you need for your observations from the time you have an idea of observations until when you finish processing your data. ...

The Astrophysical Research Consortium Small Aperture Telescope (ARCSAT) is a 0.5-m (or 20") Classical Cassegrain telescope, formerly known as the SDSS Photometric Telescope (PT). ... Chief Telescope Engineer : Bill Ketzeback (bketzeba/apo.nmsu.edu) . Remote Operations Upgrade Project Manager : Joe Huehnerhoff (jwhueh/apo.nmsu.edu) . ... SurveyCam PI : Dmitry Bizyaev (dmbiz/apo.nmsu.edu) . FlareCam PI : Joe Huehnerhoff ( jwhueh/apo.nmsu.edu ) . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... Future ATNF Operations (Version 1) was released on the web in February 2008. During March and early April 2008 we visited universities around Australia to discuss the future operations plans with the Australian user community. ... Web forum feedback on ATNF Future Operations (Version 1) . ... Future ATNF Operations: Overview . ...

... As the 430 MHz line-feed radar beam is approximately 300 m in diameter in the meteor zone, the sodium lidar beam will need to be expanded to approximately that diameter and the receive telescope suitably aligned and field-of-view adjusted. The lidar would be operated synchronously with the radar at the same IPP and raw data from each pulse would be retained for post-processing. ... The lidar IPP must be synchronized with the 1 msec radar IPP with data readout every IPP over the meteor zone. ...

... NICS will be the only infrared instrument for the first light of the TNG; as a consequence, we decided to incorporate a sufficient degree of operation flexibility by providing the instrument with six different observing modes, three aimed at imaging and three at spectroscopy: . ... It will be possible to use the narrow band filters as order sorters; this will allow to perform high resolution long-slit spectroscopy in the wavelength ranges covered by the available narrow band filters. ...

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... See "About ATMoB" / "Network" for more details on the clubhouse network. ... Direct viewing of a laser-pointer beam, even briefly and at a distance of a kilometer or two, has the potential to cause temporary flash blindness — the same effect you get right after a flash photo is taken — or afterimages. ... To help use our laser tools safely, the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. has adopted these recommendations as policy. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...

... The scientific program of RadioAstron consists of three major parts: the Early Science Program (ESP), Key Science Program (KSP), and General Observing Time (GOT) projects. The Early Science Program, which finished in June 2013, explored the main scientific capabilities of RadioAstron observations and paved the way for the subsequent KSP and GOT programs. RadioAstron KSP observations commenced in July 2013. ... The RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 2; . ...

... News Latest News News Archive Newsletter Quarterly Status Report . ... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... The Calibration review tool provides an overview of the XMM-Newton internal cross-calibration and the cross-calibration with XMM-Newton and Chandra for different calibration versions (SAS+CCF). Joint and individual fits to various data sets are available for comparison and general statistical information on the calibration situation ias also available. ...

... Comet Ikeya-Zhang, designated C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang), is named after Kaoru Ikeya of Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, a