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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . ... S.P. Korolev Rocket Space Corporation Energia provides manufacturing and delivery of the Russian completing parts for ATV and integration of these vehicles within the ISS Russian Segment. ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

. NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project . Photos provided by JSC Imagery Repository and Gary W. Johnson . page 2 of 2 . ASTP MER . STS-1 Flight . Control Team . Jay Apt

Orbit . ... The orbit of the RadioAstron provides four types of study: . rough images of radio sources with ultra-high angular resolution, using all baselines up to the radius of the apogee, that is much larger than Earth diameter; . ... high quality imaging of radio sources, with moderate resolution, by observing either with small projected base lines Earth-spacecraft, i.e. close to the orbital plane, or near the perigee. ... high accuracy orbit determination. ... Space Radio Telescope . ...

... The eleven years cycle of Sun's activity is approaching its maximum! From August 24th to 29th a team of astronomers, engineers and astro-photographers will travel to southern Greenland to observe the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), a phenomenon expected to be particularly spectacular during this period. ... Auroras . The wonderful celestial spectacle of the aurora occurs when very energetic particles from the Sun reach the Earth's atmosphere via the solar wind. ... About GLORIA . ...

... While "First Light" was achieved at the second 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (UT2) ahead of schedule, UT1 produced its sharpest image so far. ... It had long been ESO's intention to provide "real" names to the four VLT Unit Telescopes, to replace the current, somewhat dry and technical designations as UT1 to UT4. ... The participants were left with the impression of mounting expectations, just four weeks before the first VLT Unit Telescope, Antu (UT1), will receive the first visiting astronomers. ...

... The Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP) seeks to understand the nature and evolution of quasars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies in a large, carefully constructed multi-wavelength survey. ... Recent ChaMP Papers . The Field X-ray AGN Fraction to z=0.7 from the Chandra Multiwavelength Project and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey , Haggard, D., Green, P.J., Anderson, S.F., Constantin, A., Aldcroft, T., Kim, D.-W., Barkhouse, W.A. 2010, ApJ, 723, 1447 (arXiv:1004.1638) . ... 2009, ApJ, 690, 644 . ...

... In this activity, students will observe that the faintest stars which they can see in the sky are affected by many things: the adaptation of their eyes to the dark, the presence of clouds or haze, the time of year, and the presence of light pollution. General Information . ... After completing this activity, students should have a better understanding of the practical processes for dealing with the light pollution problem and with other environmental and societal issues. << previous page | ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

The Face on Mars . ... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . Table 2: Dimensions of Mercator Projected Images of "The Face on Mars" . Map Projected Images . ... Processing the "Face on Mars" Images . ... This page will provide interested persons with both the raw Viking images, transformed to GIF format, and a brief tutorial (with examples) of image processing techniques applied to create "better looking" images. ...

... Up: Telescope and Instrument Control Systems . Previous: CFH12K: Control Software and Data Handling . ... The MERLIN 1 array is being upgraded with new correlator hardware and improved monitoring, operating and control software. ... The project aims to improve the reliability and efficiency of MERLIN operations by upgrading the real-time correlator control computer and providing new software for aiding astronomical data-quality and array subsystem monitoring. ... Display lag data in real time. ...

Проект существует с июля 2002 года. Цель проекта - дать краткий обзор наиболее интересных статей, появившихся в библиотеке электронных препринтов astro-ph . Также в обзоры будут включаться статьи, появившиеся в списке astro-ph из других разделов. ... Параллельно в 2002-2003 гг. создавался списки обзорных статей, в которых подробно освещаются те или иные часто обсуждаемые вопросы (например, статья А. Линде hep-th/0107176 является одной из лучших обзорных статей по инфляции). ...

... The British consortium, currently led by Professor Gordon Bromage of the University of Central Lancashire , includes the Universities of Keele , Nottingham and Southampton , the Open University and Armagh Observatory and will be joining the other partners in the SALT project, from South Africa, Poland, Germany, USA and New Zealand. ... SALT Dome . ... The SALT project is managed by a team based at the SALT Headquarters at Sutherland and South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town. ...

... Prof. Yu.Yu. Balega, corr.-member of the Russian Academy of Science, director of the Observatory . ... Weiget G., Balega, Yu.Yu. et al. ... Astronomy and Astrophysics , v.381, p.905-913. PDF file ] . ... 2002) Diffraction-limited bispectrum speckle interferometry of the Herbig Be star R Mon. Astronomy and Astrophysics , v.392, p.937-943. ... 2002) Bispectrum speckle interferometry of the B[e] star MWC 349A. Astronomy and Astrophysics , v.395, p.891-898. ...

Parkes remote operations David McConnell ATUC 25 Oct 2011 Monday, 24 October 2011 1 History May 2007: There may also be implications for astronomer access to the telescopes. ... CSIRO. ATUC October 2011 Monday, 24 October 2011 3 Recent progress (projects PDC, PECM) R · · · · ecent progress towards remote operability and diagnosis Telescope Drive System Signal switching matrix Monitoring and control Power synchroniser CSIRO. ... ATUC October 2011 Monday, 24 October 2011 6 Project Aims 1. ...

... scattered light in flats less than 0.5% across 5' field of view . scattered light in flats less than 0.5% across entire field . ... no greater than 10% across field, and calibrateable to better than 1%. no greater than 5% across field, and calibrateable to better than 0.5%. ... provide unvignetted illumination across detector with new SDSS filter set . ... throughput stable to better than 0.5% over course of a night. throughput stable to better than 5% over thermal cycling and seasonal variation . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... space flight . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Project Icarus takes flight . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... The NATO "Science for Peace" Program , Project number SfP 973559 . ... Receiver devices based on superconducting Josephson junction dynamics provide easy and extremely sensitive way for measurements of contents of these molecules. ... Fast development of SQUIDs resulted in fabrication of number of devices for supersensitive physical experiments and production of sophisticated multichannel measurement systems used in medicine for magnetocardiography and neural investigations. ...

... GLOBE at Night: Help Track Light Pollution . ... Credit Copyright: Globe at Night Project, UCAR , International Year of Astronomy 2009 Explanation: How many stars can you see? ... Rather than count Orion's stars directly, however, the GLOBE at Night website has made things easier by providing several star charts to which you can compare your view of Orion . Possible matches extend from a bright sky where only a few Orion stars are visible, to a very dark sky where over 100 Orion stars are visible. ...

Brad Carter, Carolyn Brown, Rhodes Hart Drew Foster, John Kielkopf, Ron Moore University of Southern Queensland, Australia University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA OVERVIEW Mt Kent Observatory is now providing live remote observations of southern skies as part of a collaborative project between USQ, the University of Louisville, and Northern Kentucky University. ... This enables observers to make daytime use of a remote telescope during its local night-time, and image otherwise inaccessible skies. ...