... Rhea: Saturn's Second Largest Moon . ... Credit: Calvin J. Hamilton Explanation: Rhea is the second largest moon of Saturn , behind Titan , and the largest without an atmosphere. ... Rhea 's rotation and orbit are locked together (just like Earth's Moon ) so that one side always faces Saturn. ... NASA's Cassini spacecraft is currently on route to Saturn and will arrive in 2004. ... Publications with keywords: Rhea - Saturn - Voyager 1 . Publications with words: Rhea - Saturn - Voyager 1 . ...

... October 14, 1995 . Rhea: Saturn's Second Largest Moon . Credit: NASA , Voyager , Copyright Calvin J. Hamilton . Explanation: Rhea is the second largest moon of Saturn , behind Titan , and the largest without an atmosphere. ... Rhea 's rotation and orbit are locked together (just like Earth's Moon) so that one side always faces Saturn. A consequence of this is that one side always leads the other. ... Tomorrow's picture: Iapetus: Saturn's Disappearing Moon . ... About APOD | ...

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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

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 the conference room on October 28th: . click on the thumbnail photos to see larger size ones) . At the conference room on February 1st: . ... After the official part on February 2nd: . ... At the plenary session on August 6th: . At the regular and poster sessions on August 9th: . After all in working room on August 12th: . ...

Japanese Discover Large Earth-Crosser - Updated: 31st October 2000 . Leonids 2000 - Updated: 11th October 2000 . Research Astronomer Position Available - Updated: 10th October 2000 . Robinson Lecture 2000 - Updated: 9th October 2000 . Armagh joins Southern African Large Telescope project - Updated: 28th September 2000 . Perseid Stream in 2000 - Updated: 8th August 2000 . Sky Chart for Comet Linear in July 2000 - Updated: 9th August 2000 . ... August 1999 Solar Eclipse . ...

General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

... Day-by-day lines contain complete set and intended for those who have been there (I mean, in Kyoto :) . ... Large format is mainly for 1600x1200 screens and fast link (pictures are up to 150K in size). Normal is for typical 1024x768 screen (i.e. 15" monitors). ... Photos look incredible on it. ... Large . ... Normal . ... Thumbnails . ... Contents with thumbnails: Large | ... Nara, one of the historical cities of Japan . ... August 17, Sunday. ... Nara. ... return to photo album contents | ...

... Artist's concepts of two ATLAST designs . ... ATLAST: Characterizing Habitable Worlds (Postman et al. ... Science drivers and requirements for an Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST):Implications for technology development and synergies with other future facilities (Postman et al.) ... A 16-m ATLAST Mission Design (Lillie et al.) ... Conceptual Design for a 16-m Segmented UVOIR Space Telescope (Korechoff et al.) ... Science with an 8-m to 16-m ATLAS Telescope (Postman et al.) ...

NIFS was assembled and readied for its first cooldown on Friday August 24 2001. The cryostat contained the cold work surface plate and the radiation shields, but not the spectrograph or the On-Instrument Wavefront Sensor. ... The center of the cold work surface plate reached a minimum temperature of ~ 46.1 K. The getter reached ~ 9.2 K. Both are well below the required final operating temperature. ... Peter Conroy lowering the cold work surface plate into the cryostat. ... Pumping the cryostat. ...

Our publications in 2004 year Kniazev, Alexei Y.; Grebel, Eva K.; Pustilnik, Simon A.; Pramskij, Alexander G.; Kniazeva, Tamara F.; Prada, Francisco; Harbeck, Daniel . ... 704-727 (02/2004) . Kniazev, A. Y.; Grebel, E. K.; Pramskij, A. G.; Pustilnik, S. A. American Astronomical Society Meeting 204, #80.06 (05/2004) . Pustilnik, S.; Kniazev, A.; Pramskij, A.; Izotov, Y.; Foltz, C.; Brosch, N.; Martin, J.-M.; Ugryumov, A. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.419, p.469-484 (05/2004) . ... 419.. ...

... MNRAS, 337, 401-408 (2002). ... BHAT, N.D.R., CAMILO, F., CORDES, J.M., NICE, D.J., LORIMER, D.R. & CHATTERJEE, S. "Arecibo observations of Parkes multibeam pulsars". ... ApJ, 579, L25-L28 (2002). ... MNRAS, 338, 425-427 (2003) . ... MNRAS, 335, 1085-1090 (2002). ... GREENHILL, L.J., KONDRATKO, P.T., LOVELL, J.E.J., KUIPER, T.B.H., MORAN, J.M., JAUNCEY, D.L. & BAINES, G.P. "The discovery of H 2 O maser emission in seven active galactic nuclei and at high velocities in the Circinus galaxy". ...

... 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 .. ...

... 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). ...

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... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . ... The launch vehicle is steam ejected from its Transport and Launch Canister (TLC) by means of hot gases of black powder gas generator. ... Activation of black powder gas generator . ... Separation of black powder gas generator . ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

... Use of a NOM profilometer to measure large aspheric surfaces , J. L. Pearson, G. W. Roberts, P. C. T. Rees, S. J. Thompson , Proc. SPIE vol. ... Advances in active x-ray telescope technologies, Atkins, Carolyn; Doel, Peter; Brooks, David; Thompson, Samantha ; Feldman, Charlotte; Willingale, Richard and 7 co-authors, Proc. SPIE vol 7437 (2009). ... A nickel-carbon-fibre composite for large adaptive mirrors: Fabrication methods and properties , S. J. Thompson , D. Brooks, and A. P. Doel, Opt. ...

The accommodation fees for the V APAO : . ... Team fee: 380.– Euro/team . ... Euro . ... Supplement fee for extra days (before 12:00 of October 7 th or after 12:00 of October 14 th ): . ... Two days before and two days after the Olympiad are possible in the Damyang Youth Camp (i.e. since 12:00 October 5 th till 12:00 October 7 th and since 12:00 October 14 th till 12:00 October 16 th ). ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ...

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. ...