... Camera (cold) going up to observing level for insertion into Telescope using the handling tool (blue). July 2007 . image: VISTA_IR_Camera_to_Telescope_2.JPG . ... Camera being moved from its stand in the lower floor of the Enclosure below the Azimuth floor, using the handling tool (blue). image: remove camera from stand.jpg . ... Camera inside the upper part of the enclosure after being lifted up to the Azimuth floor on its handling tool (blue). image: camera reaches az floor.jpg . ...

During the course of ten nights of observing (UT 27 April - 6 May 1996), the KPNO Mayall 4m Telescope was used to image the Hubble Deep Field in the near infrared. The IRIM camera employs a 256 x 256 Rockwell NICMOS-3 HgCdTe array, with a scale of approximately 0".6/pixel at the 4m f/15 Cassegrain focus. ... A paper on the HDF/IRIM data (observations, reductions, catalogs and basic analysis) is in preparation, titled "Near Infrared Properties of the Hubble Deep Field" by Dickinson et al. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... FLAMES . ... 100 Hours of Astronomy . ... IMAX€о 3D Film Hidden Universe . ... This image, the first to be released publicly from VISTA, the worldтАЩs largest survey telescope, shows the spectacular star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) and its surroundings. ...

3rd of September 2015 . ATLAS Third Data Release . ... The Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (ATLAS) is a deep 1.4 GHz radio continuum survey with ATCA. ... The survey covers a total area of 6.3 deg2 to a typical rms noise level of 15 microJy/beam. ... Franzen et al. (2015) present the survey in detail, together with a catalogue containing 5118 component sources above 5 sigma. ... Left: ATLAS DR1 image (Norris et al. 2006) of a 50 by 50 arcmin region of CDFS. ... today * ATNF | ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...

... The Keyhole Nebula in Infrared . ... About three million years ago, the stars in the Keyhole Nebula began to form. ... Close inspection of the center of NGC 4438, as visible in this recently released representative-color image by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals an unusual bubble of hot gas, colored in red. Sirius: The Brightest Star in the Night . ... Sirius is visible on the far left of the above photograph, to the left of the constellation of Orion and Comet Hale-Bopp. ...

... Each day we feature a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 29, 1995 . Releasing Compton . Credit NASA , STS-37 Crew . Explanation: Named for Nobel laureate physicist Arthur Holly Compton , the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) Satellite was launched in April of 1991 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis . CGRO's mission is to explore the Universe at gamma-ray energies. ...

... STScI-PRC98-11A STARING INTO THE WINDS OF DESTRUCTION: HST/NICMOS IMAGES OF THE PLANETARY NEBULA NGC 7027 The Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) has captured a glimpse of a brief stage in the burnout of NGC 7027, a medium-mass star like our sun. ... The material settles into a wind of gas and dust blowing away from the dying star. ... During this phase, intense ultraviolet radiation from the central star lights up a region of gas surrounding it. ...

... A song written by Padi Boyd and performed by The Chromatics, specifically for the International Year of Astronomy. ... Some links from press coverage and other websites referencing IYA2009-Ireland. ... I n the last day of the International Year of Astronomy ( early evening of 31 December 2009), the Moon had the smallest partial eclipse that we have seen in Ireland and the UK for 40 years: the Moon was 8% covered by the Earth's shadow. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... News . ... NASA releases new Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission catalog of entire infrared sky . ... NASA unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky March 14 showing more than half a billion stars, galaxies, and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. т??Today, WISE delivers the fruit of 14 years of effort to the astronomical community,т?? said Edward Wright, WISE principal investigator from the University of California, Los Angeles...

... Astrophysics Group . ... VLSS . ... To facilitate access for UK and European users, MRAO is providing a UK Mirror of the VLA Low-frequency Sky Survey (VLSS), which is being produced in the US jointly by NRAO and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). ... A catalog of discrete sources on these images created by fitting a elliptical Guassians to all sources detected at the 5 sigma level or higher. ... This survey contains publicly available images and catalog information on over 1.8 million radio...

Neptune . ... Triton . Neptune 291k gif . Full Disk Neptune 93k gif ; 29k jpg . ... New Dark spot 25k jpg ; 113k gif ; caption ; press release . ... Another thin Crescent of Neptune 166k gif . ... low resolution shot of Neptune, possibly showing great black spot 210k gif . ... Parting view of Neptune and moon Triton 59k gif ; 17k gif ; 23k jpg . ... Small Dark Spot 190k gif ; 133k jpg . Small Dark Spot 55k gif ; 23k jpg . ... The Great Dark Spot 423k gif ; 153k gif ; 97k jpg . ...

... This is one of the results from the Arecibo Methanol Maser Galactic Plane Survey that is being presented by graduate student Jagadheep D. Pandian of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Dr. Paul F. Goldsmith of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California and Dr. Avinash A. Deshpande of Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington DC. ... Methanol masers at 6.7 GHz are beacons of massive star formation in our Galaxy. ...

... The highest redshift X-ray jet discovered . by Chandra in GB 1428+4217 at z = 4.72 . X-ray jet discovered by Chandra . ... Science Papers on ADS . ... Chandra Press Release . The paper describing the details nas been published in ApJ and it is available also on astro-ph Feb. ... The jet paper published in ApJ Letters is available on astro-ph Oct. ... ApJ Letters paper available on astro-ph: Paper 2003 Feb. ... ApJ papers available on astro-ph: Paper 1, 2002 and Paper 2, 2007 . ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... RSDC . ... Press Releases (rus) || in Russian RSDC Quick Jump 9-year Galactic survey Catalog of sources 7-year Galactic Bulge Map Cleaning IBIS/ISGRI sky images IBIS/ISGRI Sensitivity vs. ... The INTEGRAL view of the Galaxy . ... May 2012: 9-year Galactic plane survey . ... They are ISGRI (higher plane detector of the IBIS telescope), JMX1 and JMX2 - two detectors of the JEM-X telescope. ... RSDC is actively participating in the all-sky survey carrying out with INTEGRAL observatory. ... 2016 IKI RAN...

... Count Rate Ratio (cr_ratio) . Introduction of a tabular file, that describes the differences between expected count rates and the count rates measured in orbit. ... The change involve a new entry in the 'models' section of RGASIM : rgasim begin models begin MYMODEL begin : lincoordFile RGS_coordinates_file.CCF end : end : end . Exploiting the LINCOORD files as described above, the location of these simluators in the telescope frame are no longer described in the configuration files of SciSim. ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Товары для астрономов > Полезное для астрономии > astrostack 3.1 released! ... Просмотр полной версии : astrostack 3.1 released! Drago . ... New 3.1 release on July 1st A pre-release (beta) version can be downloaded as a try out. ... New 3.1 pre-release can be downloaded as beta NOW The upcoming 3.1. release is available as beta pre-release version to try out (Full edition only). ... Next time: Finally some news on video and webcam plugins releases. ...

... Astronomy and Astrophotography - amateur tips and ideas from personal experience. ... CNES : CLEMENTINE data Server - Access to 1.8 million lunar images . ... Astrofili on the Web - Dr. Fabio Marino's CCD images and links. Astronomical Images - Deep-sky astronomical photographs. ... Astronomy Page - collection of amateur astrophotographs, along with observatory and Hubble images. ... Igor's Astronomy Page - with thumbnail links to images from observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope. ...