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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... 18.09.2006 . ... Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory Explanation: Is Pluto the largest dwarf planet? ... Currently, the largest known dwarf planet is (136199) Eris , renamed last week from 2003 UB313 . Eris is just slightly larger than Pluto, but orbits as far as twice Pluto 's distance from the Sun. ... Dwarf planets Pluto and Eris are trans-Neptunian objects that orbit in the Kuiper belt of objects past Neptune. ... September 2006 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 August 17 . Planets over Paranal . ... Explanation: Very bright planets and very large telescopes are part of this sunset view of Paranal Observatory . The observatory's four, massive 8.2 meter telescope units are situated on top of the 2,600 meter high mountain, Cerro Paranal , in the dry Atacama Desert in northern Chile. ...

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) . ...

O ptimal transport : T heory and A pplications . ... This is a web site of the research project Optimal transport: Theory and applications to cosmological reconstruction and image processing (OTARIE) supported by the French National Research Agency ( Agence nationale de la recherche ) under contract ANR-07-BLAN-0235 . ... Optimal transport is a mathematical subject connecting the fields of optimization, partial differential equations, and dynamical systems in finite and infinite dimensions. ...

... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium . and Users Meeting . on September 20-23, 2016. ... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users Meeting on September 20-23, 2016. ... Year book "Ephemerides of Minor Planets for 2016" on-line . ...

... VLSS Redux version, 2012 . We present details of improvements to data processing and analysis which were recently used for a re-reduction of the Very Large Array (VLA) Low-frequency Sky Survey (VLSS) data. Algorithms described are implemented in the data-reduction package Obit, and include smart-windowing to reduce clean bias, improved automatic radio frequency interference removal, improved bright-source peeling, and higher-order Zernike fits to model the ionospheric phase contributions. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Posted on September 26, 2014 | 2 Comments October is an interesting month for astronomers as World Space Week falls from 4 October until 10 October and coincidentally itтАЩs a good month for keen astronomers to take to [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... No Comments I have never met a child who is not fascinated by the stars. €аLearning to find and recognise planets and constellations is the first step in what can be a [ ] . ... On 15 May 2014 [ ] . ...

... Team . ... V.V.Sokolov "The gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and global star forming rate at large redshifts" . ... I.V.Sokolov, A.S.Moskvitin, Eda Sonbas, O.V.Verkhodanov, O.P.Zhelenkova "A galaxy cluster in the GRB 021004 field" . ... The monitoring of GRB afterglows and the study of their host galaxies with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope from 1997". ... A.S.Moskvitin, T.A.Fatkhullin, V.V.Sokolov and V.N.Komarova, "Spectral and photometric monitoring of CCSNe at SAO RAS" . ...

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... Archives . ... I?ve copied below the text of an ISBA announcement for the first workshop in a new series addressing Bayesian methods for machine learning. It builds on the model of the earlier well-known ?Bayesian case studies? workshops, where just a few applications are featured at each workshop, with the format tailored to produce a lot of back-and-forth between application scientists and statisticians. ... Workshop on Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning . ...

Up: Software Systems and Tools . Previous: CIRSI Data Reduction System - CIRDR . ... A parallel algorithm applicator has recently been added to the AIPS++ system. ... This demonstration will show the first use of this class to deconvolve a large spectral line cube within AIPS++. ... The Algorithm (Clark CLEAN) processes receive a plane from the dirty image and deconvolution parameters from the Applicator, deconvolves the image, and send the results back to the Applicator. ...

... Maintenance and Work Completed on M1: September 10, 1999 . Whiffles Installed on M2: September 10, 1999 . M1 Support System Maintenance: September 10, 1999 . M1 Temperature Sensor Work and Repair: September 10, 1999 . M1 Hex-cell Deterioration: September 14, 1999 . ... M1 Whiffle Mount and M1 Back, September 21, 1999 . ... Views of Secondary Mirror (Back): April 13, 2000 . ... Front Portals: June 8, 2001 . ... M2 and M3 Baffle Work: June 8, 2005 . ... M3 Work: November 7, 2007 . ...

home events . ... Other Workshops, Conferences and Events . ... NSTA conferences offer the latest in science content, teaching strategy, and research, all presented by science educators who want to enhance and expand their professional growth. ... 2012 National Conference . ... This event promises to be a standout event with panels, fireside chats, lightning talks, book signings, and ... an extended opportunity to schmooze with glitterati from the worlds of science and science-based entertainment. ...

... Innovative Designs for the Next Large Aperture UV/Optical Telescope . ... The NHST Working Group held a workshop on April 10-11, 2003 to discuss mission concepts, designs and instrumentation for a potential large aperture (4-10m) telescope operating at UV/optical (UVO) wavelengths. ... Potential missions to address these science themes included (but were not limited to): 1. 4 to 10-m-class visible coronagraphic telescopes with the primary science of planet detection and characterization. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... News Feed . ... 2012 December 18th . ... Cooler November . ... Relative Humidity at Armagh Observatory, 1838-2008 . 2012 November 29th . ... 2012 November 28th . ... 2012 November 22nd . ... Armagh Observatory 2012 Robinson Lecture . ... 2012 November 1st . ... 2012 October 1st . ... Armagh Observatory Business Plan 2012-2013 (PDF) . ... Armagh Observatory and Planetarium Management Committee Minutes November 2011 - PDF . ...

... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

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