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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... Phase light curves of binary model that consists of a primary component with mass M 1 and a secondary component with mass M 2 . ... The input parameters of the problem are the accretion rate onto the binary components ( ), the component mass ratio q = M 2 /M 1 , the orbital inclination to the line of sight , the eccentricity e, the rotation angle of the apsidal line relative to the observer , and the parameter c characterizing viscosity. ...

... A survey of Armagh was to be carried out in order to better determine how much money is wasted each year in Armagh on bad lighting. ... Bad Up Light . ... This information allowed more accurate estimates to be made of how much light is wasted in Armagh, and therefore how much money and coal is wasted, as well as how much carbon dioxide produced. ... Lights per metre . ... denote the average percentage of light wasted per luminaire, wasted meaning ineffective lighting (up, to the sides etc.) . ...

... IC 1805: Light from the Heart . ... Credit Copyright: Richard Crisp Explanation: Sprawling across hundreds of light-years, emission nebula IC 1805 is a mix of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds. ... Light from this and other glowing gas clouds surrounding hot, young stars comes in very narrow bands of emission characteristic of energized atoms within the clouds. ... Publications with keywords: Heart Nebula - emission nebula - star formation . ... IC 1396: Emission Nebula in Cepheus . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Sky Guide . ... Guiding the light . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Click here to receive a FREE e-Guide exclusively from Astronomy magazine. ...

Villains and Heroes of Lights and Lighting Fixtures . If we are to reduce the effects of light pollution, we must learn about the types, both good and bad, of fixtures used in outdoor lighting. ... In fact, this type of fixture is often chosen for this very reason. ... Although these lamps are not very energy efficient, and they are often found in older, inefficient fixtures that enhance light pollution, they still exist in great abundance in most locations and are still sold by the millions. ...

C C C C C C lass lass lass lass lass lass 1 2 3 4 5 6 Introduction, Background Solar System Stars Galaxies Cosmology Special Topics Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light T lescopes e 1. ... Kirchoff's Laws trum Emission Line Spectrum 2. A low-density, hot gas emits light whose spectrum consists of a series of bright emission lines. ... Absorption Spectrum 3. ...

... Plate bending . ... The plug-plates of SDSS project are responsible for locating the optical-fiber plugs spatially and for defining the plug tilt with respect to the surface of best focus. ... It can be seen from the graphs that after bending the plate and adding a central suport, the curvature of the plate was quite near that of the desired Kent005 curve. ... Upon adding a central support, however, the slope of the plate decreases to a value slightly less than that of the Kent005 curve. ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

... Classical nova V458 Vul (N Vul 2007 No.1) was detected as a supersoft X-ray source (SSS) by the Swift XRT several times in the time range between 2007 October 18 and 2008 June 18 (J. Drake et al., ... Our V photometry shows the plateau in the light curve continued since January till June 2008. ... The light decay by 0.05 mag/day suggests that plateau has finished in the middle of June. ... The light curve of V458 Vul folded with the period of 0.58946 day (top). ... View UBVRc light curves of V458...

Using the Huygens and Babinet principles van de Hulst [ 11 ] considered the problem of light scattering and extinction by a particle having the size and the refractive index . ... The absorption cross-section is . ... The range of applicability of the anomalous diffraction theory for the scattering amplitude is limited by small angles, however the formules for the cross-sections became good approximations for a wide class of particles. ... This problem for spherical particles was solved by A.Ya. ...

... TNG . ... FIRST LIGHT OF ARNICA . ... The ARcetri INfrared CAmera ( ARNICA ) has been installed in the week 6-13 December 1998 at the TNG Nasmyth A focus (see Figure 1.) The interface is meant to support the optical imager ( OIG ), the infrared camera (ARNICA will be later substituted by NICS ), and the adaptive optics module ( ADOPT@TNG ). ... Arnica is a DRO camera for infrared imaging operating in wavelength range between 0.9 and 2.6 microns and is equipped with a Nicmos3 256x256 detector. ...

... 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 . ...

... This task computes the average or folded light curve for a single cycle of known period. input file: rp90_sect2_sti.qp . ... xt> fold input source timing file: rp90_sect2 input background timing file (none): <cr> root name for outfile [root_fld.tab]: rp90_part2 # chosen so name of output # file different from that of Section 8.9. fold period in seconds: 100.14 # this value chosen by user. number of bins: 10 The folded light curve may be displayed with the task fldplot . ...

Light element abundances in NGC 5128 from planetary nebulae Jeremy R. Walsh, ESO George H. Jacoby, WIYN Reynier Pelletier, Kapteyn Lab., Groningen Nic A. Walton, IoA, Cambridge Planetary nebulae · Low mass (~0.7-7M^ј ) main sequence stars undergo a planetary nebula (PN) phase at ages 0.1-10Gyr depending on initial mass , following the red-giant branch (RGB) and asymptotic g iant branch (AGB) to the white dwarf cooling track · L eng th of PN phase ~104 yr (depending on core mass ) · ...

... 3D structure rings , spots filaments · Application to Cygnus A and 3C 317 Radio cocoon and shaped Xray gas (contours) in Cygnus A Cygnus A (Chandra archive, courtesy P. Strub) large cocoon width elliptically shaped cluster gas marks bow shock axis ratio: 1.2 Outline · · · ­ Pretty data: Cygnus A Parameters of jet simulations in the history Extension to very low ... L g[ = -2 ] Parameter Study: Axis Ratio Small jets have spherical bow shocks! critical radius depends on . ...

... Бренд: Odeon Light (Италия) . ... Цвет плафонов и подвесок: белый алебастр . ... Артикул - OD_ 1989 _8,Бренд - Odeon Light (Италия),Коллекция - Alicante ,Гарантия, месяцев - 24,Время изготовления, дней - 1,Рекомендуемые помещения - Гостиная, Спальня,Высота, мм - 490,Диаметр, мм - 740, Цвет плафонов и подвесок - белый алебастр, Цвет арматуры - бронза,Тип поверхности плафонов и подвесок - матовый,Тип поверхности арматуры - глянцевый, рельефный,Материал ... Цвет: горчичный . ... Ботинки Goor...

Bigbang Forum Message . ... Light Radiation And Gravity . ... The more I look at it, it seems that Gravity and Electromagnetic radiation ACT at the speed of light, but electromagnetic radiation can travel slower than this limit up until it is intercepted; conversely gravity can travel faster than the speed of light down to the limit. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...