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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

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... 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 . ...

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. ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2011-2012 Lecture Series 2011-2012 ? тАЬA Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark (Matter)тАЭ ? Charles Keeton . ... Charles Keeton , associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rutgers University and faculty director of the Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates , will speak to the AAA Friday, March 2, on тАЬA Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark (Matter).тАЭ The free public lecture begins at 6:15 p.m. in the Kaufmann Theater of the€а American Museum of Natural History . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... From high northern latitudes these mesmerizing northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis , are becoming a more familiar sight . As the September 23rd equinox approaches, nights grow longer and a favorable season for aurora begins. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: aurora borealis . Publications with words: aurora borealis . ... Cloudy Night of the Northern Lights . September s Aurora . ...

... 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) . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2010 September 17 . Northern Lights over Prelude Lake . ... From high northern latitudes these mesmerizing northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis , are becoming a more familiar sight . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

... Date: 2 September 2009 01:27:30 BST . Subject: LP Symposium, Competition, Mt Wilson fires, Lectures, BCO Events . ... EUROPEAN LIGHT POLLUTION SYMPOSIUM, ARMAGH, 17-19 SEPTEMBER. ILPAC, the Irish Light Pollution Awareness Campaign,ѓЉwas asked to host this year's . ... And in addition to the main event we have free public lectures by Leo Enright in Dublin and Armagh. ... You can see the symposium program,ѓЉbiographies of the speakers and other details on the website. ... See www.bco.ie . ...

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Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ... StelLocation Class Reference . Store the informations for a location on a planet. More... #include < StelLocation.hpp > . QStringљ . ... Output the location as a string ready to be stored in the user_location file. ... createFromLine (const QString &line) . ... Definition at line 26 of file StelLocation.hpp . ... line . ... Output the location as a string ready to be stored in the user_location file. int StelLocation::altitude . ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

... a greenish glow is often seen in the sky, known as the "Northern Lights." ... During magnetic storms, the glow may move southwards, and on occasion it can be seen in much of the US. ... A similar phenomenon is also seen in southern polar regions. ... Auroral light is produced at a height of about 100 km (60 miles) when fast electrons, arriving from space, slam into atoms and molecules of the atmosphere. ... The green light of the aurora puzzled scientists for many years, since it fit no known...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Although they look tranquil here, observed up close such young stars would seethe and glare violently. ... Once thought to be a satellite of our own galaxy, increasingly the Small Magellanic Cloud is believed to be an interloper from the intergalactic void which has wandered into its present location and will eventually recede away into the darkness. ... Your email address will not be published. ...

. Album : asv-album :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1998/06 Nauchny, Katsively (Crimea, Ukraine) :: В Научном . Up . On the Observatory park alleys. Note the shielded street light (astronomers do not want extra light in the night) . Next >> . Photo album generated by album from D. Madison 's Marginal Hacks on Tue Jun 23 14:46:46 2015 .

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... Note: Click here a longer, much more comprehensive overview of the polar aurora . ... Magnetic Field . ... Aurora . ... 3b. Fritz Aurora . ... Electrons . ... Typical aurora (Dick Hutchinson ї) . In Alaska, Canada, Norway, Finland or northern Russia, on a clear night, a greenish glow is often seen in the sky, known as the "Northern Lights." ... Auroral light is produced at a height of about 100 km (60 miles) when fast electrons, arriving from space, slam into atoms and molecules of the atmosphere. ...

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... 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. ...