Sentences with phrase «palomar observatory»

This work, each in a different colour, is a three - dimensional version of a silkscreen print inspired by the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County.

We thank the staff of the Palomar Observatory, the W.M. Keck Observatory and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory for their support of this project.

Data on photographic plates from the Palomar Observatory showed yet another bright burst in the same part of the sky in 1954.

It scans the sky regularly with a telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego.

A photographic plate from the Palomar Observatory showed a bright burst in 1954 at the same point in the sky as iPTF14hls (left).

He served as Director of Palomar Observatory (now Caltech Optical Observatories) from 2000 to 2005 and has played an important role in building the science case and partnership for the Thirty Meter Telescope.

Hans - Walter Rix's other collaborators are Daniel H. McIntosh (Steward Observatory), Alexei V. Filippenko (University of California), Wallace L. W. Sargent (Palomar Observatory), and Michael Eracleous (Penn State University).

The findings were confirmed using the higher - resolution PALM - 3000 instrument, also at Palomar Observatory.

It has been sighted from quite a few spots (the Palomar Observatory and the Gemini North telescope on MaunaKea to name two).

Using the 60 - inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory, they found that found that 14 of 29 GRBs discovered by NASA's Swift satellite were dark, with no visible flash.

In the new study, the researchers describe using the automated Robo - AO system on Palomar Observatory to scan the night skies, searching hundreds of stars each night for signs of stellar companions.

The galaxy's youthful appearance was identified some 40 years ago through observations at the Palomar Observatory.

The discoveries were made using instruments fitted to telescopes at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego: the Robo - AO adaptive optics system, developed by the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics in India and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and the PALM - 3000 adaptive optics system, developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Caltech.

Hubble was instrumental in the design of the Hale Telescope, which was set up at the Mount Palomar Observatory.

Before the W. M. Keck Observatory was built, the 200 - inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory reigned supreme.

In 2014, the Palomar Transient Factory (located at Palomar Observatory, near San Diego, California) detected a supernova over 500 million light - years away.

The exciting thing is that both the Palomar Observatory and ourselves managed to observe the supernova in the 1 - 2 weeks before it reaches its maximum brightness (and then fades steadily after that).

2003 UB313 was identified initially on frames taken by the automated 1.2 - meter Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory in California, USA.

So Jewitt and Luu carried out two parallel surveys: they used the Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescope equipped with conventional glass photographic plates to scan large areas of the sky for the very faintest objects, while also watching a narrow field of view in the plane of the planets for rare but slightly brighter objects using MIT's 1.3 - metre telescope fitted with a CCD.

This color image is based on data coming from 33 photographic plates taken between 1987 and 1995 through the Palomar Observatory's 48 - inch (1,2 - meter) Samuel Oschin Telescope as a part of the second National Geographic Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS II).

I have been working on two surveys using the 48 - inch Palomar Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory and 8.2 - m Subaru telescope telescope on Mauna Kea to search for the most distant objects in the solar system.

The Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS - II) was made by the California Institute of Technology with funds from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Sloan Foundation, the Samuel Oschin Foundation, and the Eastman Kodak Corporation.

Asteroid (9135) Lacaille was discovered on October 17, 1960 by C.J. van Houten, I. van Houten - Groeneveld, and T. Gehrels at Palomar Observatory, and provisionally designated 7609 P - L; it was later designated 1994 EK6 on an independent observation.

An image taken by the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey reveals a possible explosion in the year 1954 at the location of iPTF14hls (left), not seen in a later image taken in 1993 (right).

In 1994, David Golimowski and collaborators at the Palomar Observatory in California visually detected the third stellar member to Gliese 105 (Golimowski et al, 1995; and May, 1995).

David Golimowski, Palomar Observatory Larger discovery image of Star C, with dark circular coronagraphic stop at center of Gl 105 A for suppressing light scatter.

The yellow lights were installed in 1984 to help combat light pollution at the Mount Palomar Observatory, 70 kilometres to the north.

Combining infrared data from the Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory and the Keck 2 Telescope in Hawaii, researchers have characterized the remarkably symmetrical «Red Square» nebula as a central star (MWC 922) illuminating twin cones of outflowing gas.

The camera, mounted on a telescope at Caltech's Palomar Observatory near San Diego, succeeds the Palomar Transient Factory.

So Serabyn's group installed a relatively new kind of instrument called a vortex coronagraph on a small - scale segment, called a sub-aperture, of the Hale telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California.

At Caltech he built a new kind of spectrograph for the 200 - inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory and used it to study colliding galaxies, which, he learned, get hotter sooner than most people realized.

Sedna was detected by Caltech astronomer Mike Brown and his colleagues working at California's Palomar Observatory.

Particles shed by Comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko trail the nucleus in this negative image from Palomar Observatory, taken in June.

On the way, I ran into a staff member who wanted to show me the Samuel Oschin Telescope, a 48 - inch instrument that had been used for 50 years to do the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey.

Historical data from the Palomar Observatory showed a bright burst in 1954 at the same point in the sky as iPTF14hls (left).

When iPTF14hls was discovered in September 2014 by the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory, which scans the sky regularly with a telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, it looked like an ordinary type 2 supernova in a galaxy about 500 million light - years away.

Historical data on photographic plates from the Palomar Observatory showed yet another bright burst in the same part of the sky in 1954.

For years, scientists who needed a global sense of what was out there relied on one dominant set of photographs — the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey — created in the 1950s.

Not exact matches

The Sloan Telescope (located at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico) retraced much of the Palomar Survey but replaced photographic plates with digital imagery that could be updated and analyzed electronically, anywhere.

If you're not in Philly, you can still moonlight as an astronomer during a global four - day celebration, 100 Hours of Astronomy (April 2 — 5), featuring a 24 - hour star party with free telescope viewings in public spaces worldwide and live Webcasts from top observatories like Mauna Kea and Palomar.

Since 1998, Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo of Gemini North Observatory, and astronomer David Rabinowitz of Yale University have used the 48 - inch Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Mountain in Southern California to scan the Kuiper belt and beyond for objects two - hundredths the brightness of Pluto.

In the interwar period, George Hale was also a prolific founder of prestigious U.S. observatories such as Yerkes, Mount Wilson, and Palomar.

A Las Cumbres Observatory press release about the supernova, which was discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory in September 2014, noted that the explosion at first appeared to be an ordinary supernova.

The picture was taken with infrared adaptive optics imaging at Palomar and Keck Observatories.

Compiling observations from Keck, the Palomar Transient Factory, Las Cumbres Observatory, and even 1954 images from the Palomar Sky Survey has offered some clues about the object.

Our engineers and staff come from all over the world — from Australia to Chile to China to India to Spain, and we have experience with other observatories and telescope projects including ALMA, CTIO, ESO, GTC, Gemini, Keck, LBT, LIGO, LSST, Magellan and Palomar, as well as with industry including Jacobs Engineering, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, and NASA.

The exhibition features images of close - ups of the Moon and its Henry Frères craters from the 1890s, the first photographs of the Sun from 1870 by Rutherfurd and from 1878 by Janssen, an image of the solar corona during a total eclipse proving the curvature of the light; catches of comets and shooting stars and, of course, the images of nebulae and galaxies taken between 1910 and 1960 by the observatories of Lick, Mont Wilson and Mont Palomar.