... Todays crew: Connie, Shu-i, Lrry, Mark, Dave, Jon Brinkmann and helpful instrument hints from Jim Gunn . The back end of the echelle is prepared to lift to the observing level. ... The crew begins to lower the back end down into the hold area and to the rear of the echelle. ... Getting ready to remove the plexiglass cover on the tank and the plate across the back end. ... The back end meets the tank and Connie and Shu-i tighten the mounting bolts. ...

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 . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... The SHARP cannon . ... HARP Gun (Photo by Peter . ... HARP, for High Altitude Research Project, was a study of the upper atmosphere by instruments shot from a cannon. ... The cannon which propelled the Martlet to the high atmosphere was the creation of Gerald Bull, a Canadian engineer who specialized in the design of cannon. ... Like Gerald Bull, the German designers started with a big cannon designed for a battleship, but then they inserted in it a narrower barrel, of caliber 210 mm or about 9". ...

Проект существует с июля 2002 года. Цель проекта - дать краткий обзор наиболее интересных статей, появившихся в библиотеке электронных препринтов astro-ph . Также в обзоры будут включаться статьи, появившиеся в списке astro-ph из других разделов. ... Параллельно в 2002-2003 гг. создавался списки обзорных статей, в которых подробно освещаются те или иные часто обсуждаемые вопросы (например, статья А. Линде hep-th/0107176 является одной из лучших обзорных статей по инфляции). ...

. About us . The information will appear later. TO MAIN . Scientific investigations . Participation in projects . Hardware . Optical instrument making . Publications . News . Archive . Contacts : . Laboratory for atmosphere optics МАО NANU . 27 Akademika Zabolotnoho St. Kyiv, Ukraine, 03680 . +380(44)5264539 . Fax . +380(44)5264761 . Web 2006-2010 by Ivan Syniavskyi .

HARP Gun (Photo by Peter . ... HARP, for High Altitude Research Project, was a study of the upper atmosphere by instruments shot from a cannon. ... The cannon which propelled the Martlet to the high atmosphere was the creation of Gerald Bull, a Canadian engineer who specialized in the design of cannon. ... When the cannon fired--its loud bang was heard all over Barbados--the airtight cover over the muzzle was blown away and the Martlet rose into the high atmosphere, to altitudes of 80-90 miles. ...

... This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... Earliest source: "[Observatory women computers], 1891." ... A group photo of computers at Harvard together with Mary Anna Palmer Draper, aka Mrs. Henry Draper. ... 1891 . General: The women depicted in this photograph analyized stellar photographs and computed data at the Harvard College Observatory. [link] 1891 . ...

... To be read in conjunction with Section 4.11 of the WFPC2 Instrument Handbook , -Version 4.0. ... 1 The second study found evidence that CTE loss for faint stars has increased with time (Whitmore, 1998). The primary observational consequence of CTE loss is that a point source at the top of the chip appears to be fainter than if observed at the bottom of the chip, due to the loss of electrons as the star is read out down the chip (see Figure 1 ). ... Last updated: 06/16/98 10:38:00 . ...

... A Peace and Reconciliation project supported by the European Union through the Southern Cluster Partnership . ... Children from seven schools in the Armagh and Monaghan areas came together at the Armagh Planetarium on Friday 12 November to celebrate their achievements in the OASES project. ... Previous Press Release (11 June 2010) . On Friday 18 June Armagh Observatory and Armagh Planetarium hosted a visit by 140 primary school children from six schools in Counties Armagh and Monaghan. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Three Views of Jupiter's Io . ... 3.10.1996 . ... Credit Copyright: The Galileo Project , JPL , NASA Explanation: The Galileo spacecraft orbiting Jupiter continues to return impressive results. ... These three photos are reflected at the bottom of the above picture, digitally enhanced to better show important features. Some areas of Io , it now appears, are truly red, not the usual green and yellow hues recorded previously. ... October 1996 . ... 1995 1996 . ...

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NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project . Photos provided by Eugene G. Edmonds . ... Mounted cameras on one . ... High Speed Fastex . camera and control units . ... Film for Apollo 11 . mission being picked . ... Edmonds facing camera) . ... Astronaut stepping . ... of the Moon . Astronaut ejection . ... Removing Apollo 11 . mission flight items . ... Edmonds with items in his hands) . ... surface of the Moon . Apollo 11 Moon rocks . ... Edmonds in blue jacket) . ...

... October 3, 1996 . Three Views of Jupiter's Io . Credit: The Galileo Project , JPL , NASA . ... The Galileo team has just released three more photographs of Jupiter 's volcanic moon Io taken in June. ... Some areas of Io , it now appears, are truly red, not the usual green and yellow hues recorded previously. ... This red material appears to be associated with recent volcanic eruptions , and the red color appears to fade with time. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... ESO PR Photo 03a/01 . ... Caption : PR Photo 03a/01 is a colour composite mosaic image of the central part of the Orion Nebula , based on 81 images obtained with the infrared multi-mode ISAAC instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory. The famous Trapezium stars are seen near the centre and the photo also shows the associated cluster of about one thousand stars, about a million years old. Technical information about this photo is available below. ...

... Gallery . ... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . ... Title: The Project Team . Description: NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. File name: The Project Team.jpg . ... The Project Team NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. Powered by Gallery 3.0.9 (Chartres) . ...

... Main . ... The RadioAstron is an international space VLBI project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. ... List of organizations which were taken part in developing of the project and now support the RadioAstron mission is presented here . The RadioAstron Newsletter # 29 , July 18, 2015. RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4 for observations from July 2016 to June 2017 inclusive. ... 2.7, December 17, 2015 : English version. ... Main ASC . ...

... Norm Oberle being reflected by one of his . ... The 31" mirror at the . ... It was through Norm's classes that I made my own two telescope mirrors described elsewhere on this site. ... Soon he made his first first telescope. ... Norm was one of the charter members and organizers of Cuyahoga Astronomy Club and its first president. ... In 1968, Norm formed the LEAP Project (Lake Erie Astronomical Project) partially an out growth of the telescope making class and astronomy meetings at the planetarium. ...

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