... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, operates a number of world-class radio astronomy observatories that are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility or ATNF. ... CSIRO also manages the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, where the Square Kilometre Array telescope infrastructure in Australia is to be centred. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... Hubble Space Telescope News . ... Produce presentation images and illustrations from Hubble Space Telescope observations. ... Member of the Hubble Heritage Team, whose mission is to find and present the most beautiful images from the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Hubble News and Images . Bringing important Hubble science results to the media and the public. ... Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) . Center of science operations for the Hubble Space Telescope and my place of employment. ...

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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

You can also see this page in Russian with using KOI8 (X Windows) or CP1251 (MS Windows) Cyrillic coding. The Laboratory supports the space TV experiments, mainly in the planetary exploration missions. ... Image Co-registration . ... PHOBOS mission - Martian satellites investigations. Phobos on the Martian limb, the image from Phobos-2 probe from 02/28/89. ... Russian Space Bulletin. ... Last modified at June,26 1997 Alexey Kuzmin: akuzmin@mx.iki.rssi.ru . Back to IKI home page ...

. MASTER supernova search . 2006 02 08.96 UT . Klick for full image .

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) . ...

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . Meade Ultra-High Transmission coatings (UHTC ) Group . ... Meade Standard Coatings: The optical surfaces of all Meade telescopes include high-grade optical coatings fully consistent in quality with the precision of the optical surfaces themselves. ... These specialized, and extremely advantageous, coatings are offered here as the Meade Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC) group, a coatings group available optionally on many Meade telescope models. ...

... The TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments developed by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON on January 30, 2009. The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

XMM ­Newton CCF Release Note XMM ­ CCF ­REL­2 Point Spread Function of the X­ray telescopes P. Gondoin October 4, 2000 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag XRT1 XPSF 0006 2000­01­13T00:00:00 ALIGNMENT, FIT PAR, 3GAUSS PAR, IMAGE sas 20000903 1900 NO XRT2 XPSF 0002 2000­01­13T00:00:00 ALIGNMENT, FIT PAR, 3GAUSS PAR, IMAGE sas 20000903 1900 NO XRT3 XPSF 0002 2000­01­13T00:00:00 ALIGNMENT, ... In­orbit calibration of the XMM­Newton telescopes. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... COAST . COAST Astronomical Results . ... Surface Imaging of Betelgeuse . ... This page highlights some astronomical results obtained with COAST over the years. These are listed in chronological order (most recent first). ... Measurements of cyclic variations in the angular diameter of Chi Cygni . ... The first infrared image from an aperture synthesis array . ... The images of Betelgeuse below were reconstructed from COAST data taken in early 2004. ...

... The collecting area is increased by nesting concentric mirror pairs, all having the same focal length. ... Figure shows the largest optical element being ground at HDOS. ... X-ray testing demonstrated that the CXO mirrors are indeed the largest high-resolution X-ray optics ever made; the nominal effective area (based on the ground calibrations) is shown as a function of energy in the left panel of Figure , along with those of their Einstein and ROSAT predecessors. ...

... Supernova Remnant Imaged in Gamma Rays . ... Still, an array of large telescopes designed to detect gamma-ray induced atmospheric flashes - the HESS ( High Energy Stereoscopic System ) experiment - has produced this historic, resolved image of a supernova remnant at extreme gamma-ray energies . ... Публикации с ключевыми словами: supernova remnant - остаток Сверхновой - gamma ray - гамма-излучение . Публикации со словами: supernova remnant - остаток Сверхновой - gamma ray - гамма-излучение . ...

... 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. ...

... Supernova Remnant Imaged in Gamma Rays . ... With up to a billion times the energy of ordinary "medical" x-rays , they easily penetrate telescope lenses and mirrors, making it very difficult to create gamma-ray images of cosmic sources. Still, an array of large telescopes designed to detect gamma-ray induced atmospheric flashes - the HESS ( High Energy Stereoscopic System ) experiment - has produced this historic, resolved image of a supernova remnant at extreme gamma-ray energies . ...

... Next: MEM Task for Up: Image Restoration and Previous: RegisteringPSF-Matching and . ... In gyro-hold tracking mode, HST is stabilized only with its gyros, and the Fine Guidance Sensors are not used to maintain pointing. ... Experiments have been done on WFPC 2 images of NGC 330 and NGC 422 (having exposure times of 80 and 100 s in gyro-hold mode) with complete success. ... An NGC 422 WFPC 2 WC2 image and an NGC 330 WFPC 2 PC1 image were taken in mode FSGLOCK = GYROS in 1994 January. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

Main Sections LabIR main page . ... LabIR staff . ... Tirgo Page . ... ARNICA (ARcetri Near Infrared CAmera) is the imaging camera for the near infrared bands between 1.0 and 2.5 m that Arcetri Observatory has designed and built as a general facility for the Tirgo telescope. ... Report on Grism for Arnica. ... Arnica progress report : performance and technical results obtained in the last years at Tirgo , Not , and Vatt . ... Characterization of the detector (Arcetri Technical Report N^ 2/94)(1594k) . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This image of the Tarantula Nebula comprises one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photos and includes observations taken by HubbleтАЩs Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, combined with observations from the European Southern ObservatoryтАЩs MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope which trace the location of glowing hydrogen and oxygen. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... Visitor Center . ... The Observatory . The 305m Telescope . ... Those who see the Arecibo radio telescope for the first time are astounded by the enormousness of the reflecting surface, or radio mirror. The huge "dish" is 305 m (1000 feet) in diameter, 167 feet deep, and covers an area of about twenty acres. ... The giant size of the reflector is what makes the Arecibo Observatory so special to scientists. ...