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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

Villains and Heroes of Lights and Lighting Fixtures . If we are to reduce the effects of light pollution, we must learn about the types, both good and bad, of fixtures used in outdoor lighting. ... In fact, this type of fixture is often chosen for this very reason. ... Although these lamps are not very energy efficient, and they are often found in older, inefficient fixtures that enhance light pollution, they still exist in great abundance in most locations and are still sold by the millions. ...

... Date: 2 September 2009 01:27:30 BST . Subject: LP Symposium, Competition, Mt Wilson fires, Lectures, BCO Events . ... EUROPEAN LIGHT POLLUTION SYMPOSIUM, ARMAGH, 17-19 SEPTEMBER. ILPAC, the Irish Light Pollution Awareness Campaign,ѓЉwas asked to host this year's . ... And in addition to the main event we have free public lectures by Leo Enright in Dublin and Armagh. ... You can see the symposium program,ѓЉbiographies of the speakers and other details on the website. ... See www.bco.ie . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Light Pillars from a Little Planet . ... 31.01.2014 . ... Credit Copyright: Janne Voutilainen Explanation: Eerie pillars of light ring the edges of this snowy little planet. ... Flat ice crystals, like those more often found in high, thin clouds , are gently fluttering in very cold air near the surface. ... 2013 2014 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: ice crystals . Publications with words: ice crystals . ...

ALBUM: In Rock (1970) aLL SONGS BY bLACKMORE/gILLIAN/gLOVER/lORD/pAICE @ SONG : Speed King Good Golly, said little Miss Molly when she was rockin' in the house of blue light Tutti Frutti was oh so rooty when ... rockin' to the east and west Lucille was oh so real when she didn't do her daddies will Come on baby, drive me crazy--do it, do it I'm a speed king you go to hear me sing I'm a speed king see me fly Saturday night and I just got paid Gonna fool about ain't ...

... 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 . ...

Princeton Instruments was incorporated in 1981 and has been building low light systems for its entire history. ... Princeton Instruments uses the latest in computer aided design to engineer the highest performance camera systems possible. ... We work with every major manufacturer of CCD arrays and image intensifiers in the world. ... From early in the company history, Princeton Instruments has offered complete detection systems for many different types of applications. ... Princeton Instruments, Inc. ...

... Solar System . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... 8 Comments Newly discovered small Solar System body V774104 may seem just another tiny, cold and remote world beyond Neptune but this is an important finding as its mere existence suggests that [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... No Comments In November 2014, the European Space AgencyтАЩs washing-machine-sized investigation and analysis lander lab Philae, did something that no other automated probe had ever done before, it successfully landed on a [ ] . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2014 January 31 . Light Pillars from a Little Planet . ... Explanation: Eerie pillars of light ring the edges of this snowy little planet. ... Pillars of light appear as the crystals' briefly horizontal facets reflect upward directed light from ground sources downward, toward the observer. ... Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend . ... About APOD | ...

... Posts tagged ?Silver Light? ... One of those rabbits is hunting online lectures useful for everyone. Prof. Feynman?s lectures have great reputations but they have been hard to come by. ... Thanks to Bill Gates and Microsoft Research , although it is a belated news, I?m very delighted to say ?Feynman lectures are online.? ... Tags: Feynman , Feynman lecture , Microsoft Research , online , Silver Light , WorldWide Telescope . ... 1 Comment . ... Entries RSS . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ...

... We have measured this "redshift" for the pink black holes, and allowed for it in our calculations. ... We see this effect in the emission from gas around these pink black holes, but it is far too small an effect to account for the pinkness. Thus the swirling motions of gas around or into the black holes cannot produc the colour. ... At first we thought that these things were normal blue black holes hidden behind clouds of interstellar dust, that absorbed the blue light and made them appear pink. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

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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 . ...

... January 8, 2007 . ... SENTINEL CORRESPONDENT . Astronomers at UC Santa Cruz have discovered a surprisingly massive halo of bright, old stars around our galactic neighbor Andromeda, pushing the outer limits of the galaxy to 1.5 million light years, and teaching them how spiral galaxies behave. ... Younger stars may be remnants of a galaxy devoured, but older stars could have formed with the birth of the galaxy. ... http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/January/08/local/stories/03local.htm . ...

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. ...

... Prof. J. Hough, dean of Physical Sciences Dept. ... Dr. T. Gledhill . ... PDF file ] . Gledhill T.M., Takami M. (2001) Scattered light models of the dust shell around HD 179821. ... Hough J.H., Aitken D.K. (2003) Polarimetry in the infrared: what can be learnd? Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer , v.79-80, p.733-740. ... Lucas P.W. (2003) Computation of light scattering in young stellar objects. ... 2003) Scattering of light from atmospheric ice analogues. ...

Installed and tested in late November 2000, new world-leading technology has made the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) the first millimetre-wave interferometer in the Southern Hemisphere. At the heart of the new millimetre receivers are indium phosphide chips, cooled to 20 K (-253њ C), the product of a joint effort between the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) and the CSIRO Division of Telecommunications and Industrial Physics (CTIP). ... bkoribal@atnf.csiro.au ) ...

... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

... The Sun gives us light and heat, sustaining life on Earth. ... This uneven rotation, coupled with the churning of the upper layers, might well be what produces (by a "dynamo mechanism", described in a later section) regions of intense magnetic field, seen by observers on Earth as dark sunspots. ... Near sunspots those streamers seem to be shaped by the Sun's magnetic field lines, and above the Sun's poles they suggest field lines rising from twin magnetic poles like those of the Earth. ...