... 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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... 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. ...

... Since 2011 our observatory is a member of GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science) project - wide international collaboration of 13 scientific institutions from 8 countries aiming at opening public access to robotic telescopes, as well as propagating astronomy in general. The GLORIA Project offers Internet users the possibility of studying the sky from professional observatories. ... The experiments are available at the users site of GLORIA. ... About GLORIA . ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

Astronomy Education News . ... FT Universe Challenge . ... Faulkes Telescopes Universe Challenge . ... A school competition for an astronomy project using the Faulkes Telescopes тАУ state of the art 2-metre telescopes in Hawaii and Australia, which can be remotely operated by students during school hours in Ireland. ... To register for this challenge please contact the Faulkes Telescopes Universe Challenge secretariat by emailing Dr Miruna Popescu . Armagh Observatory - Astronomy Education . ...

... Staff . ... Galaxies, AGN, Cosmology . ... A new survey of X-ray clusters of galaxies with the Swift-X-ray Telescope . ... In this framework, an international collaboration between INAF-OAA, INAF-Brera, INAF-OATs, the University for Science and Technology of China-Hefei, the University of Ferrara, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, is undertaking a new cluster survey using an X-ray facility that was never exploited before for this goal: the X-ray Telescope (XRT) onboard the Swift satellite...

... Up: Future Instruments and Telescopes, Tools . ... New Generation Astronomical Telescopes (NGAT), a class of telescopes designed to be operated remotely and robotically, require efficient methods for communicating images over heterogeneous and low-bandwidth data networks such as the Internet. ... Methods researched thus far involve the classification of astronomical images based on object parameterisation, progressive image transmission, and evaluation of existing image compression schemes. ...

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