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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... 2014 November 30 . The Seahorse of the Large Magellanic Cloud . Image Credit: NASA , ESA , and M. Livio ( STScI ) . Explanation: It may look like a grazing seahorse , but the dark object toward the image right is actually a pillar of smoky dust about 20 light years long. The curiously-shaped dust structure occurs in our neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud , in a star forming region very near the expansive Tarantula Nebula . ... Now Available: APOD 2015 Wall Calendars . ... About APOD | ...

... 2000 January 12 . NGC 6791: An Old, Large Open Cluster . ... Explanation: NGC 6791 is one of the oldest and largest open clusters of stars known. ... Open star cluster NGC 6791 , however, contains thousands of stars recently measured to be about 8 billion years old. ... This enigma makes NGC 6791, pictured above , one of the most studied open clusters and a possible example of how stars might evolve in the centers of galaxies. ... About APOD | ...

... NGC 6791: An Old, Large Open Cluster . ... Credit Copyright: Barbara J. Mochejska ( CAMK ) et al., 2.1-m Telescope , KPNO , NOAO , NSF Explanation: NGC 6791 is one of the oldest and largest open clusters of stars known. ... Open star cluster NGC 6791 , however, contains thousands of stars recently measured to be about 8 billion years old. ... This enigma makes NGC 6791, pictured above , one of the most studied open clusters and a possible example of how stars might evolve in the centers of galaxies....

... Observing . ... Subscriber Extras . ... Web Extras . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Web Extra: Astronomers animate one of the largest galaxy clusters ever observed . ... At the center of the Phoenix Cluster, a large elliptical galaxy lurks where the hot gas is ejected, giving off unprecedented levels of X-rays, which have been observed by the orbiting Chandra X-ray telescope. ...

... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . ... The launch vehicle is steam ejected from its Transport and Launch Canister (TLC) by means of hot gases of black powder gas generator. ... Activation of black powder gas generator . ... Separation of black powder gas generator . ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

... Research . ... A rare hybrid morphology radio galaxy . ... In this project we will be able to investigate the environmental effect on star formation and galaxy evolution in individual galaxies falling into the cluster through radio observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Current models of galaxy evolution regulate the star formation rates within the simulated galaxies by invoking radio-mode feedback from AGN. ... Julie.Banfield@anu.edu.au . ...

October 16, 2006 (Monday) Srikanth Raghavendra, India . November 13, 2006 (Monday) Tuhin Roy, Boston . November 20, 2006 (Monday) Dave Soper, University of Oregon . ... Fall 2005 . Winter 2006 . Spring 2006 . Summer 2006 . Fall 2004 . ... Fall 2000 . ... Winter 2000 . Spring 2000 . Summer 2000 . ... L = 2 terms in the low-energy regime but no ? ... This system is remarkably well-suited to addressing outstanding issues in both cosmology and fundamental physics. ...

... 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....

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Next: Display of the results Up: How Pieflag works Previous: Step 3: Postprocessing to . When developing the flagging algorithms, it was found that often a few affected data points were not found during times with strong interference. ... An additional benefit of this procedure is that a larger safety margin is flagged around extended periods of bad data. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... March . ... Posted on May 9, 2012 | 9 Comments €аA globular cluster is made of hundreds of thousands or even millions of stars packed together in a pretty compact ball. ... Continue Reading.. ... 15 Comments Today Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky is an unmistakable blue-white in colour although it does twinkle a lot and can appear to change colour. ... Posted on March 29, 2012 | ... What are the stars? ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Форумы общей направленности > Любые вопросы от новичков . Supernovae - Microwave Background - Large-Scale clustering . ... Поиск . ... Созвездия (поиск и описание) .. Созвездия южного неба (поиск и описание) .. Осенние созвездия (поиск и описание) .. Летние созвездия (поиск и описание) .. ... Double Cluster (Хи и Аш Персея (Chi & h Persei), NGC 869 и NGC 884) и скопления вокруг него Звездные ассоциации - астеризмы (поиск и описание) .. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

... Up: Surveys & Large Scale Data Management . ... The CoCat (Co-processor Catalogue) project main goal is to parallelize the VizieR large catalogue treatments (data extraction, cross-matching) for reducing the response time. ... Figure 2: The CoCat cluster. As the Sun server is becoming overloaded we decided to move the set of large catalogues to a Linux cluster (the CoCat cluster). ... The CoCat cluster involves one master node and five slave nodes (Fig 2 ). ...

... 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. ...

... From the chain visibility point of view, it is very recommended to look at the Javascript movies , especially if the frame rate can be not regulated in your MPEG player. ... The non-CH-associated large-scale chains visible on the SOHO/EIT images at three wavelengths of 171, 195 and 284 as well as on the MLSO/HAO He I 10830 spectroheliogram of December 16, 1997. ... The SOHO/EIT movies at 171 and 195 show the chain dynamics on June 1-3, 1998. ... Javascript movie (230 KB), SOHO/EIT, 171 . ...

A Canadian and American team of Astronomers have used the 305-m wide Arecibo radio dish, the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope, to uncover a dozen new super-fast-spinning pulsars. The team directed their search for these rare and exotic stars by pointing the Arecibo radio telescope towards massive star clusters, called Globular Clusters, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. ... One of the most exotic residents in the Globular cluster system are the millisecond pulsars. ...

... 200 jet radii . ... bipolar simulation . initial density contrast 1/10,000 (jet/IGM) . ... Density films: (970 frames) . gif, 100MB] [MPEG IM, 5MB] . Density films: (97 frames) . gif, 10MB] [jpg, 0.9MB] [h363+, 0.9MB] [ISO MPEG4, 0.9MB] [pre MPEG4 v3, 0.9MB] [pre MPEG4 v2, 0.8MB] [real, 0.9MB] [gif, 1MB] [MPEG1, 0.9MB] [MPEG IM, 0.5MB] . ... Virtual Jets 2003 (Dogliani, Italy) [slides] [proceedings] . ... This page is maintained by Martin Krause ...

Software Forum Message . ... Astronomy Software Discussion | ... Starry Night Pro Plus 6 - How Do I Enter Large Asteroid Database . ... The starry night pro asteroid.txt file is confusing. ... I have downloaded a page of Near Earth Asteroids from the Nasa website but I'm not sure what format starry night requires. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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