... 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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 . ... 4.03.1996 . ... Credit: NASA , Voyager 2, Calvin J. Hamilton Explanation: Titania's tortured terrain is a mix of valleys and craters. NASA's interplanetary robot spacecraft Voyager 2 passed this moon of Uranus in 1986 and took the above photograph. ... Although Titania is Uranus' largest moon, it is still much smaller than Triton - the largest moon of Uranus' sister planet Neptune . ... Publications with keywords: Uranus - titania . ... Uranus Moon 18 . ...

Titan . ... Hubble Space Telescope Images of Titan's surface . ... Later that year, it will release the European-built Huygens probe for a descent through Titan's atmosphere. ... This artist's rendering shows the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descending into the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan after being released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ... This artist's rendering shows the Huygens probe on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan after being released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. March 4, 1996 . Uranus' Largest Moon: Titania . ... NASA's interplanetary robot spacecraft Voyager 2 passed this moon of Uranus in 1986 and took the above photograph. ... Although Titania is Uranus' largest moon, it is still much smaller than Triton - the largest moon of Uranus' sister planet Neptune . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

We present a mid-infrared analysis of star-formation activity in the Large Magellanic Cloud's molecular ridge (south of 30 Doradus). The Magellanic Clouds are a rare laboratory in which extragalactic star-formation diagnostics can be tested at high spatial resolution. ... Detailed analysis in very nearby galaxies, like the Magellanic Clouds, allows us to test and better understand the scaling relations used in unresolved and distant star-formation regions. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

. 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

... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

... In summer 1994, the biggest news in astronomy was the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. During this school year, Jupiter will charge back into the limelight with the arrival of the Galileo spacecraft (see figure 8 ). On Dec. 7, following a tortuous six-year ramble through the solar system, Galileo will begin its two-year mission studying Jupiter and its gaggle of moons. ... Besides the camera, Galileo will carry instruments capable of identifying minerals on Jupiter's moons. ...

... I t was long thought that Titan was the largest satellite in the solar system but recent observations have shown that Titan's atmosphere is so thick that its solid surface is slightly smaller than Ganymede's . ... R ecent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope show remarkable near infrared views of Titan's surface (right and top). ... T he observations by HST also indicate that Titan's rotation is in fact synchronous like most of Saturn's other moons. more images . ... Saturn .. ...

... Creation of Space transportation system on the base of large length rope utilization . ... A given address contains the proposal to equip the International Space Station with the long rope and to create on that base a Space transportation system. ... A given system has the multifunctional purpose. ... The rope system could be the base for creating of alternative system of station angular orientation. To utilize the rope system to launch small satellites from the station and to return them back. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... large (8 inches or larger) . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Presented on Tuesday, January 7, 2003 . We construct a detailed longitude-velocity diagram through the actual midplane of the Galactic H I disk. The Galactic midplane definition is based on single-dish sky surveys, and the detailed l-v slice ( Fig. 1 ) is extracted from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey ( CGPS ; Taylor et al. 2003 ). ... Note: other slices offset from this one were not shown in the AAS poster for lack of space, but they are available here . ...

... Comparison of simulations with the large scalтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . ... Title: Comparison of simulations with the large scale radio galaxy M87. Description: Comparison between a snapshot from Movie 2 (left panel) with the large scale radio structure of the famous radio galaxy M87. ... Comparison of simulations with the large scale radio galaxy M87. Comparison between a snapshot from Movie 2 (left panel) with the large scale radio structure of the famous radio galaxy M87. ...

... The world's largest optical telescopes, the VLT (Very Large Telescope Array) are located in Chile, country that was recently hit by the 7th most powerful ever recorded earthquake, which, very sadly, is now counting many fatalities. ... You would wonder, did the mirrors survive such a strong earthquake? ... Tom Barclay , PhD student at Armagh Observatory, is about to go observing there in two weeks. ... All ESO buildings are earthquake-proof" , answered Tom. ... 28 Feb 2010 23:01 . б© 2010 OASES . ...

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Next: Calling Parameters Up: CAL_rgsGetScatter Previous: CAL_rgsGetScatter Contents . ... is the r.m.s. surface roughness for two scatter models; is either small or large for small angle scatter, and large angle scatter, respectively. ... Note that the surface roughness for the large angle scatter is parameterized as a function of wavelength and its value is obtained with . ... The fraction of scattered light for small/large angle scatter is . ... This is not performed by this function. ...

Next: Header files Up: Programming in C Previous: Exercises . This Chapter deals with theoretical and practical aspects that need to be considered when writing larger programs. When writing large programs we should divide programs up into modules. These would be separate source files. main() would be in one file, main.c say, the others will contain functions. ... UNIX utilities such as make help us maintain large systems (see later). Header files . ... The Make Utility . ...