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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

Blackholes2 Forum Message . Forums: . ... Only Photons Travel At The Speed Of Light . Forum List | ... Posted by Richard Ruquist on October 21, 2004 12:29:14 UTC . ... Charge has mass and from the theory of relativity, they cannot travel at the speed of light. Radio waves are photons, a form of light. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Final Thoughts Sigh on to you My friend Might be is this the end Sigh on to you Sigh on to you Final Thoughts @ SONG : IN THE END OF LIFE No will to live Without lights Coming to the end of life Arriving in the end of life Ones decide to sacrifice No will to live Without lights Coming to the end of life Lost in darkness realms to go The fearless ones now are down The final one is burnt off life ... I'm the one that's sent to kill, Feeling all destructive will. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . Sun . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on March 16, 2015 | No Comments As everyone knows on Friday 20 March 2015, a total solar eclipse will occur across the far northern regions of Europe and the Arctic. ... Continue Reading.. ... 8 Comments The ancient Chinese thought they were stars inside a solar orb. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... The IAA's Observing Night + Leonid Watch at Delamont Country Park on Saturday night started well, following a good weather forecast, with crystal clear skies very little light pollution. ... But ever the optimist I set the alarm for 03.45 to allow time to get up out to a dark site if it did clear. ... The Leonids were spectacular - I had almost forgotten just how fast they are: even one streaking halfway across the sky takes less than 1/4 second! ... Clear Skies, Terry Moseley . ...

... Moon, Venus, and Planet Earth . ... In this engaging scene from planet Earth, the Moon shines through cloudy skies following sunset on the evening of September 8. ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster . ... Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the bright stars of the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. ... On September 8, brilliant planet Venus appearing as the evening star stood near a slender, crescent Moon at sunset. ... September 2015 ....

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The sky is blue because it reflects light from the oceans. Good astronomy : The sky is blue because it is scattering blue light from the sun. ... So everywhere you look you see blue photons, except directly from the Sun, where you'll see all colors. ... The sky does not look blue near the horizon because more yellow photons (and even orange ones right at sunset) are coming from that direction as they get scattered away from the Sun. ...

... This distance is equivalent to 3.26 light years. ... The Universe was now a large place and the intrinsic energy output of the stars had to be huge in order that their light could reach us. ... Newton implicitly assumes space is flat . ... An Orbit in Curved Space This is a prediction made by General Relativity and confirmed by direct observation of Mercury. The Ant Universe in Flat Space . ... Hubble noticed a correlation between recessional velocity and distance. ...

SAS home . ... List of SAS threads . This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract a light curve of a point-like source for all the X-ray cameras, and to start a simple analysis tool. ... If the following files are available: a) RGS event list; b) RGS source list, just a single evselect command allows a user to create a light curve, corresponding to the extraction regions in the spatial and order images. set up your SAS environment (following the SAS start-up thread ) . ...

In version 1 of the data reduction, our approach to dealing with scattered light is the following: . For F814W we reject all frames with visible scattered light. ... Most of that will be recoverable with careful subtraction of the X pattern. For F606W we reject all the frames with visible scattered light. ... For F300W use all the data, but produce two versions of the drizzled image, one with the scattered light pattern, and the other with the scattered light pattern removed. ...

... A star party is a gathering of amateur astronomers who set up their telescopes and observe the dynamic night sky. ... Star parties are best scheduled during first quarter and waxing gibbous Moon. During full moon, the moon is so bright it obscures a view of other celestial objects and even the Moon is best viewed when NOT full. ... We will consult local weather forecasters and make a decision by 2:00p on the day of the star party. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... The twilight zone is not just an old television series. ... Most places on Earth pass through the twilight zone twice a day; the result is an enchanting hour at dawn and dusk of low sunlight and long shadows. ... Before assigning your students to watch a sunrise or sunset, have them try the following activities to develop their global sense. ... Armed with a global sense of our spinning planet, go out to watch the sky as your part of the Earth moves through the twilight zone. ...

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 July 30 . Northern Lights . ... Mont Cosmos ) . Explanation: While enjoying the spaceweather on a gorgeous summer evening in mid-July, astronomer Philippe Moussette captured this colorful fish-eye lens view looking north from the Observatoire Mont Cosmos , Quebec, Canada, planet Earth. ... About APOD | ...

... Plot the light curve . input file: rp90_ltc.tab . xt> ltcplot Input Table File: rp90_ltc . Plot appears with crosshair cursor and the program will be in cursor mode for interactive readjusting of the plot. Type = for hardcopy. Type q to leave plot and return to PROS. ... to plot error bars . ... will set the vertical scale to these values. ``auto'' will scale from min y to max y. num_plots = 2 . ... 1998-06-10 ...

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... The eleven years cycle of Sun's activity is approaching its maximum! From August 24th to 29th a team of astronomers, engineers and astro-photographers will travel to southern Greenland to observe the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), a phenomenon expected to be particularly spectacular during this period. ... Auroras . The wonderful celestial spectacle of the aurora occurs when very energetic particles from the Sun reach the Earth's atmosphere via the solar wind. ... About GLORIA . ...

... Team . ... GRB mini-workshop 2006 . ... Our study of GRB fields in optical range efforts to shed light on the progenitor problem and it is naturally splitting into two directions. The first one is study of GRB OT via follow-up observations, while the second way is investigation of GRB host galaxies. ... The first stage consists in observational data acquision, the second one yields estimates of GRB OT characteristics and its host galaxy parameters. ... Do GRB hosts differ from field galaxies? ...

The Sun's corona . ... For instance, short "plumes" rising from the polar regions of the Sun look very much like field lines coming out of the end of a bar magnet, and they therefore suggest that the Sun, in addition to the intense fields of sunspots, also has a global magnetic field like the Earth's. Arches above the . Sun's surface . ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona. ...

23may12: strobe lights from yiye avila's tower on mount roncador . ... On 21may12 I made a video of yiye avila's tower starting around 18:30. ... canon sx230hs camera . ... There are two strobes, one 1/2 way up tower (just below the donut). ... At 240Frames/sec the strobe was seen in two frames (multiple times). 1./240 =4.1 millisecond. ... The strength of the strobe lights was not the same in the two frames, so part of the duration may be that the two strobes are not exactly synchronized . ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Wiki Style Examples . Wiki styles | ... PmWiki uses WikiStyles for styling text with color and other attributes. PmWiki 2.0 introduced the ability to control the styling further and to even place styles on blocks. ... In addition, an author can define a style "shortcut" by using the define= property. For example, to define a style of %red% , one can use: . define=mystyle color=red% Here is some %mystyle% red text created using a style shortcut. ...