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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

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 . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... Observing . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . Springtime observing for small telescopes . ... Astronomy magazine Editor David J. Eicher shares 10 of his favorite springtime deep-sky objects, including the NGC 3190 galaxy group, 3C 273, and NGC 3242. ... In this video, Astronomy magazine Editor David J. Eicher discusses deep-sky objects in the spring sky you can see with a 12-inch or larger telescope. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... 24sep08: long recovery vs alfa rotation angle. ... On 23sep08 around 14:00 hours data was taken with alfa on the sky to see how long the recovery took. ... 2 172 MHz Bands per beam . ... On 24sep08 around 17:00 data was taken with alfa and the pdev spectrometer to measure the long recovery time versus the rotation angle of alfa. ... As alfa rotates, different beams have larger/smaller recovery times. ... This is the same data as the total power plots above. beam 0 alfa rotation= 0 deg . ... page up ...

... Image formation is typically described as a linear process. ... where, for 2-dimensional systems, the object coordinates are and the image coordinates are . Such a general description of a linear system is termed shift-variant, because the shape of , the impulse response (or point spread function, PSF), might change as the object position, , is shifted. ... Hence, the exit pupil geometry changes with field position, so the system response changes with field position (i.e., is shift-variant). ...

... Duchamp | ... Top | Duchamp is a solution to this problem of three-dimensional source finding. ... A list of the detections and their properties, as well as the input parameters that were used. [text file] . ... It can be downloaded in source format, in a gzipped tar archive. ... Changes from the previous version can be seen here (this file is included in the tar archive), while the archive files and documentation from the previous release versions are here , if you are really interested. ...

... Credit: M. Brown ( Caltech ), C. Trujillo ( Gemini ), D. Rabinowitz ( Yale ), NSF , NASA Explanation: Is that a tenth planet? A faint, slowly moving dot discovered by computer shows clear signs of being a deep Solar System object at least as large as Pluto . The object, designated 2003 UB 313 , is currently situated nearly 100 times the Earth-Sun distance -- over twice the average Pluto-Sun distance. ... Since 2003 UB 313 is surely not completely reflective , it could be substantially larger. ...

Discover the cosmos! ... 2005 July 31 . Solar System Object Larger than Pluto Discovered . ... A faint, slowly moving dot discovered by computer shows clear signs of being a deep Solar System object at least as large as Pluto . The object, designated 2003 UB 313 , is currently situated nearly 100 times the Earth-Sun distance -- over twice the average Pluto-Sun distance. ... Since 2003 UB 313 is surely not completely reflective , it could be substantially larger. ... About APOD | ...

... We can help students grasp the significance of Hubble's extremely keen eye, and learn a bit about angles and math in the process, with the following in-class activity. ... Looking through binoculars or telescopes allows us to magnify a small section of the sky. To measure sizes or distances in that small section, astronomers divide a degree into 60 smaller pieces called arcminutes, and further subdivide minutes into 60 smaller sections called arcseconds. ... 30 feet = . ... 36 seconds . ...

... The greater the distance, the smaller the parallax. ... That triangle has the same proportions as the much larger triangle ABC, and therefore, if the distance B'C to the thumb is 10 times the distance A'B' between the eyes, the distance AC to the far landmark is also 10 times the distance AB. ... The most distant objects our eyes can see are the stars, and they are very far indeed: light which moves at 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) per second, would take years, often many years, to reach them. ...

... Packet Format . ... The TCC broadcasts UDP packets containing position information. ... Packet Header . ... int4 . ... double . ... pos, vel double . ... pos, vel, time double . ... See the TCC Message Keywords Dictionary for full definitions of most items in the "data" section of the packet. pos, vel double is a structure containing two doubles: "pos" and "vel"; it contains the same information as the TCC's "coordinates" (p,v,t triplets), but with time given by the "TAIDate" entry in the packet. ...

On 1 February 2002 this Mirror was upgraded from NVSSlist v2.10 to NVSSlist v2.17 . ... This form searches the source catalog produced by the NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). ... Object name [optional] : . ... Search radius and verification halfwidth in arcseconds [Optional] : . ... Enter a list of positions to search: . ... The contents of the NVSS source catalog and the techniques used by NVSSlist to derive error estimates and other parameters are described here. ...

Next: First Catalog Sources Up: The Second EGRET Catalog Previous: Catalog Construction . ... For each observation with 3, the excess is presented as a flux with its uncertainty. ... For all except the brightest sources or those in confused regions, the statistical uncertainty is larger than any systematic uncertainties. ... The primary catalog is Table 4. ... Other names -- the source name from the first EGRET catalog ([ Fichtel et al. 1994b ]) or other gamma-ray references. ...

OJC «RPC «Precision Systems and Instruments», Moscow, Russia A. Alexandrov, V. Shargorodskiy On the possibility to create a prototype of laser system for space debris movement control on the basis of the 3-meter telescope. ... Large number of theoretical works, which are devoted to laser method of impact on SD, consider light pressure and material removal (evaporation, ablation) for thrust generation. ... Laser ablation is the process of removing material from a solid surface due to laser spark). ...

Comets necessarily obey the same physical laws as every other object. ... If one considers only two bodies -- either the Sun and a planet, or the Sun and a comet -- the smaller body appears to follow an elliptical path or orbit about the Sun, which is at one focus of the ellipse. ... Another quantity that is conserved is called angular momentum. ... Comets simply are bodies which in general have more angular momentum per unit mass than do planets and therefore move in more elongated orbits. ...

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 . ...

Lesson Plan #27 http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Lnewt2nd.htm . A short section, recapitulating earlier ideas of force and inertia (also known as mass). It summarizes Newton's laws, defines the unit of force known as "Newton," and gives as a practical application of the second law the acceleration of the German V-2 rocket, used in World War II. ... This lesson plan supplements: "Newon's Second Law," section #18 . ... Mass . ... An unthinking application of Newton's second law would give . ...

XMM-Newton CCF Release Note XMM- CCF -REL-172 Improving pn Window mode CTI correction and re ning the long term CTI correction for all pn Modes M. Kirsch July 19, 2004 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS ag EPN CTI 0013 2000-01-01T00:00:00 CTI - HIGH ADD PAR 3.169 NO EPN CTI 0013 2000-01-01T00:00:00 LONG TERM CTI 3.169 NO 2 Changes The EPN ... The upper panel is using the old EPN CTI 0012.CCF and the lower the new EPN CTI 0013.CCF. ...

... In the central equatorial Pacific, the large area of warmer than normal sea surface temperatures (large area outlined in red with a white center) associated with growing El Nino conditions has recently migrated eastward toward the coast of South America. http://physicaplus.org.il/zope/home/en/1105389911/1113511992_en На этой странице есть презентации с конференции, где активно обсуждалась . ... Картинка со страницы со статьей Шавива. http://physicaplus.org.il/zope/home/en/1105389911/1113511992_en . ...