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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... The Hubble Space Telescope is jointly run as a partnership between the European Space Agency and NASA. ... For more information on the European contribution to the Hubble Space Telescope go to: http://hubble.esa.int and for more on the VLT go to: http://www.eso.org . ... A Taste of Real Astronomy ? The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercises . ... The "ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series" has just been published, on the web and in print. ... The language for the ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series is English. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Ganymede: A Really Groovy Moon . ... Credit: Galileo Mission Team , Galileo Spacecraft , NASA Explanation: Ganymede's surface is a wrinkled mess. As large ice-sheets shift on the moon's surface , parts of the surface buckle causing high ridges, deep furrows, and parallel grooves. ... The Galileo spacecraft has also just discovered that Ganymede has a region of orbiting charged particles called a magnetosphere - a first for any moon. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Site Info . ... This page is basically a list of links to websites that either support or refute the claim that NASA never sent men to the Moon. I have my own detailed rebuttal of the Fox television program ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land On The Moon?'' in my Bad TV section . ... I plan on having a thorough debunking of this on this site eventually. ... Below are listed pages by both the conspiracy theorists and the debunkers. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... July 11, 1996 . Ganymede: A Really Groovy Moon . Credit: Galileo Mission Team , Galileo Spacecraft , NASA . ... As large ice-sheets shift on the moon's surface , parts of the surface buckle causing high ridges, deep furrows, and parallel grooves. ... The Galileo spacecraft has also just discovered that Ganymede has a region of orbiting charged particles called a magnetosphere - a first for any moon. ... APOD's Archive of Galileo at Ganymede . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... The Real Reality Show: Would aliens be anything like us? ... The Real Reality Show: All about the Drake Equation . ... The Real Reality Show . ... The Real Reality Show: Is Interstellar Travel Really Possible? ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email...

The Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is one of the leading center of stellar magnetism study. ... Our observatory every 3-5 years holds an International Conference "Magnetic Stars" during past 30 years. ... The conference proceedings were published in book "Stellar Magnetism", Editors-in-chief Yu.V. Glagolevskij and I.I. Romanyuk (Saint Petersburg, Nauka, 1992), 270 pages. ... Conferences . History . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of the RAS . ...

... A hundred years later, a handful of Tunguska-sized asteroids have been spotted by telescopes, but most remain unseen. The asteroid designated 2008 TC3 , which made the news on October 6th before colliding with the Earth on October 7th was too small to constitute a part of the "Earth impact hazard". ... 2008 TC3, for example, finally exploded in the atmosphere above Sudan . ... Wednesday, 8 October 2008 01:15 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Not Really . ... Posted by Harvey on October 28, 2002 05:34:32 UTC . ... Trudging through murky waters - harvey1 - October 30, 2002 - 15:30 UTC . What are you afraid of? - doctordick - November 1, 2002 - 02:34 UTC . Nothing psychological here - harvey1 - November 1, 2002 - 19:32 UTC . ... Chuckle (nt) - harvey1 - November 1, 2002 - 21:59 UTC . Dick is in serious need of rewording - harvey1 - November 1, 2002 - 22:03 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

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. ...

... The IB_MAG5 magnetic conjugations with the others Spacecraft . ... ASCII file description | Plot description | ... ASCII file | real time plot . ... The IB_MAG5 magnetic conjugations with the groundbased magnetic observatories . ... The magnetic mapping polar diagram, and ASCII files for each decade of month: . ... ASCII files description | Back to the IB_MAG5 Home page. Updated 19 October, 1999 . ...

Official Arecibo picture site . Below are some pictures of the place where I work. ... Picture of the platform, taken by my dad. It doesn't look that big!", he says. Well, we'll see. My dad, in front of the primary. ... You can see how holey the surface really is. ... We see the line feed on the left and part of the Gregorian dome on the right. See from inside, the platform is quite complex. ... Looking down on the Gregorian dome! ... Below: Pictures of my new Office! ...

A team using CSIRO 's Parkes radio telescope has just found the thousandth pulsar known to science. ... This is thanks to the power of a new instrument on the telescope, the multibeam system , which has slashed the time it takes to scan the sky," said co-leader of the pulsar team, CSIRO's Dr Dick Manchester . ... There are many different types of pulsar, and we have only a few examples of some types," said Dr Manchester. ... E-mail: rmanches@atnf.csiro.au . ... e-mail: hsim@atnf.csiro.au . ...

... 2014 Irkutsk-Listvyanka, Russia G r o u p language English Theoretical round General note. ... Footstep of babr. Babr is a local representative of the biological family of cats (felidae) depicted on the coat of arms of Irkutsk, and the emblem of the X APAO (with a telescope in his mouth). ... Orion's Belt. The Babr decided to join company of astronomy animals-observers and came to Listvyanka to the X APAO to take photos of stars of Orion's Belt near the horizon. ... ISS in Zenith. ...

CDE doesn't make it easy to set the background image of the workspaces dynamically. ... Since the whole reason I did this was to look at jumbo images across both of my monitors, I found another way. cde-backdrop is a shell script (/bin/sh) that can be used on the command line or called from other scripts, which will find the CDE backdrop window which you select by name, and apply an image (in a variety of formats) to that background. cde-backdrop [ workspace | ... Download cde-backdrop version 1.0 . ...

... 200 jet radii . ... bipolar simulation . initial density contrast 1/10,000 (jet/IGM) . ... Density films: (970 frames) . gif, 100MB] [MPEG IM, 5MB] . Density films: (97 frames) . gif, 10MB] [jpg, 0.9MB] [h363+, 0.9MB] [ISO MPEG4, 0.9MB] [pre MPEG4 v3, 0.9MB] [pre MPEG4 v2, 0.8MB] [real, 0.9MB] [gif, 1MB] [MPEG1, 0.9MB] [MPEG IM, 0.5MB] . ... Virtual Jets 2003 (Dogliani, Italy) [slides] [proceedings] . ... This page is maintained by Martin Krause ...

Storing and accessing the largest astronomical catalogues with the SAI CAS project S. Koposov1,2,3, O. Bartunov2, S. Karpov4 et al2. ... Why we want to build our own Catalogue Access Service The requirements for our CAS system The importance of the Database for the CAS (PostgreSQL & Q3C) The technical realization of CAS What has been already done Example of work TODO Storing and Accessing Astronomical Catalogues Existing projects CDS OpenSkyQuery CASjobs with SDSS They are all really great! ...

IXth IAGA Workshop on Geomagnetic Observatory Instruments, Data Acquisition and Processing, . ... REAL-TIME MONITORING OF THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD VARIATIONS . AND GEOMAGNETIC DATA BASES IN IZMIRAN . ... The digital variometers were introduced on Soviet magnetic observatories since 1975 in the frame of US-USSR experiment with ATS-6 satellite. ... The regular digital registration of the geomagnetic field variations was introduced in Moscow magnetic observatory of IZMIRAN since May 1991. ...

... Different tools. 50 major data centers and observatories with substantial holdings. ... Data preservation and curation very much needed and new software needed to be created (to handle large data sets). ... Some notes below on these new initiatives within the VAO (please be aware, notes are quite sketchy here): SED Tool: between specview and Sherpa, linking these tools together and then accessing NED collection. ... VAO-IRAF integration: it's about number of people registered to IRAF. ...