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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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. National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (Arecibo Observatory)
. " The Arecibo Observatory is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations . expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation."
3. Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility
... 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. ...
4. 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. ...
5. Pulkovo Observatory
. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.
6. 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) . ...
7. HST
... 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....
8. Omega Centauri: globular cluster of 300,000 stars | Astronotes
Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Milky Way . Stars . ... This dramatic image depicts Omega Centauri, one of 200 or so globular clusters orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. ... Swarms of tightly packed stars, numbering in the thousands to low millions, globular clusters are cosmic fossils, relics of the early times of our galaxy. Omega Centauri may actually be the core of a smaller galaxy ripped apart and assimilated by our own Milky Way in the distant past. ...
9. Astronomy Today and the Role Played by the Hubble Space Telescope: Wednesday 17
... August Solar Eclipse Report: Thursday 11 September 2008 . ... Dr Fosbury is head of the section in the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of ESA's collaboration with NASA on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) project at ST-ECF . ... The lecture is entitled "Astronomy today and the role played by the Hubble Space Telescope". ... Tuesday, 16 September 2008 00:44 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...
10. A new survey of X-ray clusters of galaxies with the Swift-X-ray Telescope
... 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...
11. Maidanak Lab page
Maidanak Laboratory is a part of Sternberg Astronomical Institute of Moscow State University. ... Observations are conducted with 1.5 meter RC telescope AZT-22 of Maidanak Observatory (Uzbekistan). rus . ... maidanak lab home page . ... at Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 2000). ... Because of technical reasons, we had to use three different CCD cameras in our observations, Pictor-416 camera in 1995, Pictor-416 and TI 800 x 800 cameras in 1997 and 1998, and ST-7 camera in 1999 and 2000. ...
12. University of Louisville Wide Field and Planetary Telescopes
... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...
13. The First Lunar Observatory
... Credit: NASA , Apollo 16 Explanation: The first, and so far only, lunar astronomical observatory was deployed by the Apollo 16 crew in 1972. The Far Ultraviolet Camera / Spectrograph used a 3-inch diameter Schmidt telescope to photograph the Earth , nebulae , star clusters , and the Large Magellanic Cloud . ... The observatory still stands on the Moon today. ... Publications with keywords: Moon - apollo program - Observatory - UV - ultraviolet - telescope . ... Apogee Moon, Perigee Moon . ...
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15. Земля и Вселенная: астрономия, космонавтика, науки о Земле, Космос, телескопы,
... Размещена статья "Новая карта рельефа Марса" . ... К середине 60-х годов прошлого века многотрудные усилия астрономической общественности нашей страны (в то время Советского Союза) увенчались созданием научно-популярного журнала "Земля и Вселенная", ныне являющегося журналом Президиума РАН. ... Все это в известной степени находило отражение на страницах "Земли и Вселенной" - журнала, пропагандирующего достижения отечественной и мировой науки в области астрономии, космонавтики и комплекса наук о...
16. Hubble Space Telescope Telemetry Access using the Vision 2000 Control Center
... A Web browser with Java support and an account to establish a secure Internet HTTP connection to the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), is everything needed in order to use the new Control Center System (CCS). Then full access to the telemetry of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is given (Figure 2). A public version of CCS is also available. ... Rifkin, A. 1997, Reengineering the Hubble Space Telescope Control Center System, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. ...
17. 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. ...
18. Sternberg Astronomical Institute
SAI 175 anniversary . ... Moscow University . Search for in SAI Moscow University Search for in Russian astronomical resources . ... SAI Astronomical Databases . ... Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) . ASTRONET.RU - Russian Astronomical Network (available in translit also) . ... SAI Supernovae Research Group . ... Department of the Galaxy and Variable Stars (in Russian) . Sternberg Astronomical Institute Seminars . ... All-Russian Astronomical Olympiad (in Russian) . ...
19. Winer Observatory
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Winer Observatory) was incorporated in 1983 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity to perform basic research in astronomy, provide educational outreach programs, and provide site and maintenance services for small telescopes through cooperative agreements with other astronomical institutions. ... The picture at the top left of this page is of our facility near Sonoita, Arizona, approximately 50 miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona. ...
20. Astrophysics Group AMI
... Astrophysics Group . ... MRAO Telescopes . AMI . ... This is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) telelescope with a difference, in that it is designed to survey the sky looking for galaxy clusters by means of the ?shadows? they cast against the CMB. This shadowing, the so-called SZ effect, is a remarkable phenomenon because it is independent of redshift, allowing AMI to find clusters which are so far away that their own emission would be too faint to detect ? ...