Sentences with phrase «telescope occultation»

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Once he'd found MU69, it was up to Buie and others to calculate its orbit and predict where its shadow would fall on Earth during the occultation last summer, resulting in those windswept telescopes on Patagonia's beaches.

Astronomers using telescopes at seven different locations, including the 1.54 - metre Danish and TRAPPIST telescopes at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile [5], were able to watch the star apparently vanish for a few seconds as its light was blocked by Chariklo — an occultation [6].

Then word came that the occultation had been witnessed by two more telescopes some 740 km to the north.

The relatively brief occultation (it had been predicted to last nearly 2 minutes), combined with negative observations from a pair of telescopes in Argentina, suggested right away that Eris wasn't as large as thought.

Most of what we know about MU69 comes from pictures taken during occultations — when the little rock passes between a bright star and our telescopes.

That's when telescope observations of distant stars going behind Pluto (known as stellar occultations) showed that it had a methane atmosphere, probably rapidly evaporating to space.

Taiwan - American Occultation Survey Astronomers are using four small robotic telescopes to simultaneously scan the same patch of sky.

Meanwhile, astronomers had another chance of observing a stellar occultation by Pluto today, with telescopes at Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

We detected planetary occultations of Kepler - 17b with both the Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes.

On November 6, 2010, three teams of astronomers using three different telescopes tracking the occultation of a 17th - magnitude star in the north - central part of Constellation Cetus by Eris revealed preliminary results indicating that the dwarf planet may be smaller in diameter than Pluto after all, based on the unexpectedly short times of occultation reported.