1. The Very Large Telescope Project
... 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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...
2. Australia Telescope National Facility
... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, operates a number of world-class radio astronomy observatories that are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility or ATNF. ... CSIRO also manages the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, where the Square Kilometre Array telescope infrastructure in Australia is to be centred. ...
3. Astronomy Magazine - Interactive Star Charts, Planets, Meteors, Comets,
... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...
4. APO Home Page
... Current APO Weather . ... Search Site . ... Information for New Users . ... Technical Staff pages . Night Logs and Mailing Lists (maintained by APO) . ... Technical Documents and Database Search . ... Observer's Documentation and Procedures . ... Problem Reporting and APO Technical Documents Database Search . ... APO Drawing/Document Management Procedures . ... APO Technical Documents Database Search . Home Astrophysical Research Consortium . ... Mail Lists (maintained by APO) . ...
5. Lecture Series 2015-2016 ? Amateur Astronomers Association of New York
... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...
6. Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston
... Apr 14, 2016 - Monthly Meeting . ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... CURRENT MOON . ... April Sky . ... Lyrids Meteor Shower . ... Sources: NASA JPL Space Calendar , StarDate Online , Sky Telescope , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , RASC Observer’s Handbook , Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar and Astronomy Magazine . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...
7. Meade Instruments - Telescopes, Solar Telescopes, Binoculars, Spotting Scopes
STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...
8. Siding Spring Survey
T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...
9. GOODS: The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey
... GOODS unites extremely deep observations from NASA's Great Observatories, Spitzer , Hubble , and Chandra , ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton , and from the most powerful ground-based facilities, to survey the distant universe to the faintest flux limits across the electromagnetic spectrum. ... The space-based observations are complemented by ground-based imaging and spectroscopy, including extensive commitments of ESO and NOAO observing time. ... 2010-04-10: Deep VLA 1.4 GHz data for GOODS-North . ...
10. Beginners
... This site requires Javascript to function correctly. ... Don't rush to buy a telescope - As Alan MacRobert of Sky & Telescope Magazine says, 'To put a telescope to rewarding use, you first need to know the constellations as seen with the naked eye, be able to find things among them with sky charts, know something of what a telescope will and will not do, and know enough about the objects you're seeking to recognize and appreciate them.' ... ASRAS can help you choose the telescope that's right for...
11. Armagh Observatory
... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This contemporary photograph shows Lord Rosse's giant 6 foot telescope in its heyday with an observer situated on a gantry at the top of a wall. ... T.R. Robinson favoured an equatorial mounting for this telescope but it appears that Lord Rosse found this too difficult to implement for such a cumbersome telescope. Some of the workers at Birr with the Leviathan's mirror . ... Last Revised: 2010 February 22nd . ...
12. ASP: Good Astronomy Activities on the WWW
home education > activities . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Activities . ... Astronomy . ... Activities on the . ... This is more about space technology than astronomy, but in this interactive module, students simulate what the astronauts go through when they go up to service the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Younger students are shown a drawing that can be interpreted in two ways and then apply what they learn to planetary images. ... table of contents . ...
13. Observing with the 305-m Arecibo Radio Telescope
AO Home AO Astronomy Schedule Receivers CIMA AO IDL . ... Instructions, Guidelines, and Policies for Observing Proposals . ... The Control Interface Module for Arecibo (CIMA) . Telescope Schedule of the Arecibo Observatory . ... Compute source rise, transit, and set times (LST) for Arecibo . ... Search Schedule Database by project ID, date, or time (return schedule for all projects in date range) . ... Remote Observing with Arecibo . ... Specialist Observing Disciplines: . ...
14. Astrophysics Group MRAO Telescopes
... Astrophysics Group . ... MRAO Telescopes . ... A radio telescope consists of one or more directional receiving aerials connected to very sensitive amplifiers. Since radio wavelengths range from millimetres to about 10 metres, the actual form of the aerials can vary greatly; many are parabolic dishes with very precise surfaces, while others, like the Cambridge Low-Frequency Synthesis Telescope (right), are similar to television aerials. ... Information provided by webmaster@mrao.cam.ac.uk . ...
15. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bitesize Astronomy
... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Slacker Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Life Under the Moon . ... Seeing Jupiter's Moons . ... Time Zones and the Spherical Earth . A Companion to the Earth? ... December 19, 1999) . ... Big Moon, Little Moon . ... How Big is the Moon? ... 14, 2000) . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! Talk about Bad Astronomy on the BA Bulletin Board! ...
16. Telescopes and Observatory Operations
... Table of Contents - Subject Index - Author Index - Search . Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XII . ... The Subaru Telescope Software Trinity System . ... Science Goal Driven Observing . ... SIRTF Web Based Tools for QA and Instrument Performance Monitoring . ... Monitoring the Chandra X-ray Observatory via the Wireless Internet . B. D. Spitzbart, S. J. Wolk, and R. A. Cameron . COSMOS-3: The Third Generation Telescope Control Software System of Nobeyama Radio Observatory . ...
17. APOD Index - Solar System: Jupiter
... APOD: 1999 August 6 - Hubble Tracks Jupiter's Great Red Spot . ... It is Jupiter 's Great Red Spot, the largest swirling storm system in the Solar System . ... Explanation: Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a swirling storm seen for over 300 years, since the beginning of telescopic observations. ... While astronomers still don't exactly understand why Jupiter's red spots are red , they do think the appearance of Red Spot Jr. provides evidence for climate change on the Solar System's ruling gas giant . ...
18. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 - Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter showing the impact site of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragment G. The image was taken on 18 July 1994 about an hour and 45 minutes after the impact. The impact site is the dark round area below and right of the center of the frame, at about 45 S latitude. ... The fragments of Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter at about 60 km/s and left traces in the atmosphere which could be observed for many weeks. ... Central Latitude/Longitude (deg): N/A . ...
19. Telescope nights at Armagh Planetarium | Astronotes
Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... January . ... By admin February 20, 2013 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . ... M42, the Great Nebula in Orion, imaged through Armagh Planetarium?s telescope in January 2013. ... Image credit: Colin Johnston/Armagh Planetarium) . ... M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, imaged with the new telescope in January 2013. ... Armagh Planetarium?s new telescope in action in January 2013. ...
20. MAO NASU :: Topic: Fw: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools (1/1)
... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Fw: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... Subject: Re: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... second half of September, and which will be funded by the training and . ... www.iap.fr/opticon/neon_schools/2014/index.html . ... intended for master and starting PhD students. ... actions on observing schools, providing access for students, Master . ... observing schools for master students. ... in form of observing schools for pre-PhD students. ... MAO NASU...