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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit: P. Stomski ( W. M. Keck Observatory ), Caltech , U. California Explanation: In buildings eight stories tall rest mirrors ten meters across that are slowly allowing humanity to map the universe. Alone, each is the world's largest optical telescope : Keck . ... Since opening in 1992 , the real power of Keck I (left) has been in its enormous light-gathering ability - allowing astronomers to study faint and distant objects in our Galaxy and the universe. ...

... December 27, 1997 . Keck: The Largest Optical Telescopes . ... Explanation: In buildings eight stories tall rest mirrors ten meters across that are slowly allowing humanity to map the universe. Alone, each is the world's largest optical telescope : Keck . Together, the twin Keck telescopes have the resolving power of a single telescope 90-meter in diameter, able to discern sources just milliarcseconds apart. ... About APOD > . ...

... The British consortium, currently led by Professor Gordon Bromage of the University of Central Lancashire , includes the Universities of Keele , Nottingham and Southampton , the Open University and Armagh Observatory and will be joining the other partners in the SALT project, from South Africa, Poland, Germany, USA and New Zealand. ... SALT Dome . ... The SALT project is managed by a team based at the SALT Headquarters at Sutherland and South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town. ...

... HST . ... ATLAST Mission Concept Study . ... Left: 8-meter monolithic mirror telescope (credit: MSFC Advanced Concepts Office) . ... The Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) is a NASA strategic mission concept study for the next generation of UVOIR space observatory. ... ATLAST will have an angular resolution that is 5 - 10 times better than the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST ) and a sensitivity limit that is up to 2000 times better than the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ). ...

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 . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Optical Interferometry . Very Large Telescope Interferometer . ... Optical Interferometry Team Publications . ... VSI is currently the subject of a Phase A study, performed by a European consortium led by Laboratoire d?Astrophysique de l?Observatoire de Grenoble . The Cavendish optical interferometry group are members of the consortium, contributing mostly to the studies of the VSI internal fringe tracker and to the definition of the science cases. ...

. " The Arecibo Observatory is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations . expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation."

. ATLAS is a project to image seven square degrees of sky, in two fields (CDF-S and ELAIS-S1), at radio wavelengths, to an rms of about 15 Jy, making it the widest deep radio survey aver attempted. The fields are chosen to cover the Spitzer Wide-Area IR Extragalactic Survey (SWIRE), and the radio images cut through the dust, to trace the cosmic history of AGN and star-forming galaxies. This page last updated by Ray Norris 5-Mar-2007

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... Its optical telescopes – the Europe's largest telescope of the mirror diameter 6 m BTA (Big Telescope Azimuthal) Medium-Size telescope of the mirror diameter 1 m ( Zeiss-1000 ) and the small telescope of the mirror diameter 0.6 m (Zeiss-600) – are at the altitude 2100 m above sea level 17 km away from the settlement Nizhnij Arkhyz. ... Nizhnij Arkhyz . SAO staff members live in the settlement Nizhnij Arkhyz at a distance of 25 km to the southward of stanitsa Zelenchukskaya. ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . TELESCOPES . ... Each dome contains a telescope with many mirror segments, which combine to give a light collecting area of 10 meters (about 10 yards) across. These are currently the largest light-collecting telescopes in the world, although the European Southern Observatory is building a series of four giant telescopes in Chile which will have a larger collecting area when their light is combined. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

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. General Information . Media Files . Participants . Timetable . Local Information . Photos . Back to the album list . Previous Click the image to view it in fullsize. Previous . The BTA (Bolshoi Teleskop Alt-azimutalnyi, Eng:Large Altazimuth Telescope) is a large 6 m optical telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory. The BTA-6 was the largest telescope in the world between its first light in 1975 and 1993.

... 2008 . ... 2006 . ... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Специалисты из European Southern Observatory утвердили план, согласно которому через три года европейскими учеными начнется сооружение гигантского оптического/инфракрасного телескопа European Extremely Large Telescope. ... Он даст наземной астрономии новые, до этого невиданные, возможности. ... Первое зеркало телескопа будет состоять из 906 шестиугольных сегментов, каждый размером в 1,45 метров. ... Решение по этому вопросу будет принято к 2008 году. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... Everyone loves stunning pictures of spiral galaxies,€а I have said this before and will no doubt say it again. The folks at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) know this too, and their latest public image release is a bumper set of serenely spinning spirals. ... Tweets that mention Six glorious spiral galaxies seen by the European Southern Observatory. ...

... Recherche dans le site : . Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des actualit†йs . des reportages . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Le Very Large Telescope film†й en 3D . ... Un film †а regarder avec des lunettes 3D, comme celles fournies avec le n€ђ486 de Ciel & Espace sp†йcial relief (en kiosque jusqu'au 22 d†йcembre). ...

... click image to view discuss) . ... Largest telescope in the world, twin 8.4 meter mirriors (331 inches each, for a combined 12.5 meter scope . Submitted by Mario Motta M.D. on 01/15/2007 23:21:24 . ... sitting inside the telescope . ... inside dome at night, view of sky through slit (sneaked in) . ... They were imaging M81 while I took this. ... M81, first image tonight . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 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. ...