Sentences with phrase «is a telescope at»

Observations obtained a month later by members of the Planetary Sciences Group using the PlanetCam camera developed by this team and fitted to the 2.2 - m telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería (Spain) enabled the speed of this atmospheric structure to be confirmed.

The image is a compotie of the i - band data (in red) from the Hyper Suprime - Cam at the Subaru Telescope and R - band (in green) and V - band (in blue) images from the Mayall 4 - m telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory of National Optical Astronomy Observatory.

The data set used by the researchers came from the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) using the ESO's 3.6 m telescope at La Silla Observatory, in Chile.

The initial discovery of this quasar (given the identity J1342 +0928) came to light thanks to the mining of three large area surveys: the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) that is being carried out with the Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundations Blanco 4 - m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, NASAs Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (ALLWISE), and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey.

Currently there are two 2 - m telescopes, one in Hawaii and the other in Australia and a number of 1 - m telescopes at sites across the world.

Since the research team had already conducted radio observations of various molecular emissions in this galaxy with the 45 - m telescope at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory of NAOJ, they aimed to develop their research further with ALMA and identify the difference in chemical composition between AGNs and starburst regions.

On the lower level, there is a telescope at the window which allows you to view the sky.

The ground - based observations made use of the HARPS spectrograph of the European Southern Observatory, located in La silla (Chile), and the high - resolution camera AstraLux installed on the 2.2 - m telescope at Calar Alto.

In the years that followed, they won time on a variety of telescopes, including one at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, and the University of Hawaii's 2.24 m telescope at Mauna Kea, and got access to better and better CCDs that increased their probability of finding something.

High precision photometric observations were obtained in g», r», i», and z» band simultaneously, using the new GROND detector, mounted on the MPI / ESO 2.2 m telescope at La Silla.

Not exact matches

«We have taken our telescope, and we have counted up how many planets are similar to the Earth in this part of the sky,» Susan Thompson, a Kepler research scientist at the SETI Institute, said during a press conference at NASA Ames Research Center on Monday.

Joel Achenbach at the Washington Post was the first to report the NRO had given the two «exquisite» flight - qualified telescopes — which it didn't need anymore — to NASA just over a week ago:

I feel humble every time I look out at the vastness of the universe through my telescope but, then again, the universe isn't plotting to make me suffer if I'm indifferent towards it either.

will have to be assumed and telescoped; but I will concentrate on what I think are critical questions — critical in the sense that they represent, at least in my opinion, points on which greater clarity is required if the community of Christ's discipleship is to move into the post-Christendom future with something like apostolic confidence.

This process is called accretion, and you can see it at work over and over again in real life as we currently can watch other new (planetary systems) forming in our own galaxy with a large thing called a telescope.

Earth is part of our solar system, our solar system is a very small neighborhood in a spiral arm of our galaxy, our galaxy is one of the smaller of the billions of galaxies that are the residue of the Big Bang - this is where we are at right now... using several different types of telescopes analyzing several types of radiation and using our mathematics to calculate distortions in light waves to calculate dimensions, distance and mass — doing this we can generate a physical picture of what is actually happening our there.

If we now consider the number of the stars (15,000 x 106 visible to the optical telescope alone) you will understand how it is possible to say, cosmically speaking, that we are enveloped in a sort of monstrous gas formed of molecules as heavy as the Sun moving at distances from each other so great that they have to be reckoned in light - years (bearing in mind that light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, and that we are only 8 light - minutes distant from the sun)-- a gas made of stars!

Indeed, the radio - telescope at Jodrell Bank can detect «radio» vibrations from exceedingly distant stars whose light - vibrations can not be received at all by any optical telescope in the world.

He might as well be on Pluto looking at us with a telescope, or just a historical figure, or an idea, or nothing at all for as much difference it makes.

I retain a memory of him from that occasion, an image at once vivid and tiny, as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope: Hyung Goo, very slight and sober, talking quietly and deliberately about his father's absence from the family when he was young.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

Its legal representative at the inquiry, Neil Garnham QC, told Lord Justice Leveson that critics of the police were in danger of «looking at this through the wrong end of the telescope», as it was far from clear private investigator Glenn Mulcaire's notes that a large number of people were victims of phone - hacking.

As someone who owns his own telescope, that is a ribbon cutting ceremony I am looking forward to attending, especially if it is at night.

By the end of next month it will be at the limit of what the world's largest ground - based telescopes would be able to discern in a 10 - hour exposure.

They've practiced every motion they'll make during the eclipse: Check that the sun is in each telescope's field of view; remove the lens caps at just the right moment, to get as much time watching the corona as possible without frying the delicate instruments; and so on.

The white spots would seem to be exposed ice, Brown says, but observations of Ceres with ground - based telescopes don't show any evidence of ice at the bright spots» locations.

Breaking paradigms — and banks No one involved with AURA's HDST report will publicly hazard a guess at just how much a telescope capable of all this would cost — only that it would be costly.

«Everyone is trying to get time to look at this thing on big telescopes right now, urgently, within the next few days,» she explains.

Since most of Schmidt's colleagues were scattered across the globe — in Europe, South America and the United States — the group had developed a 24 - hour relay approach to analyzing their telescope data: Schmidt would work all day in the East before emailing the baton over to colleague Adam Riess, then at the University of California, Berkeley, who continued the study during daylight in the West.

Filippenko and his colleagues obtained a series of seven spectra, where the light is broken up into its component colors, as in a rainbow, with the Shane 3 - meter telescope at the University of California's Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, and with the twin 10 - meter telescopes of the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii.

Ian Shelton was alone at a telescope in the remote Atacama Desert of Chile.

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

If it is in the most distant part of its orbit, the world's largest telescopes — such as the twin 10 - meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Subaru Telescope, all on Mauna Kea in Hawaii — will be needed to see it.

Starting in 2010 with a 0.6 - meter robotic telescope at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) La Silla Observatory in Chile, they quickly came across the star that came to be known as TRAPPIST - 1.

This supernova remnant, named RCW103, and the intriguing object at its center, can be detected with an X-ray telescope like the one on Swift but is invisible at wavelengths that human eyes can see.

If, however, Planet Nine is now located anywhere in between, many telescopes have a shot at finding it.

Leaders of the experiment, which used a telescope at the South Pole to search for signs of inflation, were concerned that a competitor experiment was hot on the trail.

At the centerpiece of this mission would be a 30 - meter - diameter starshade, working in tandem with a 1.1 - meter telescope to look for, and investigate, exoplanets.

«The observations we make with the EVLA will be complementary with what they do at ALMA and at other radio telescopes,» McKinnon adds.

If you're interested in learning more about telescopes and their history, take a look at this Wikipedia page.

The Meade Infinity 102 mm AZ is a great beginner telescope at a fair price.

One big winner at NASA is the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a telescope mounted on a Boeing 747 jet.

The viewfinder on the side of the telescope makes it easy for children to point the scope at what they want to see, which is a big plus and prevents frustration.

The findings were made with the help of NASA - developed detector technology on the BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation.

While current telescopes have yet to pick up these crackles, it's an area worth exploring, argue Joseph Lazio at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC and colleagues in a paper submitted to Astro2010.

A set of privately run robotic telescopes owned by the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, including this pair at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, will be used to study the WTF star.

You can't see a black hole directly, but you can see its shadow — and now vast telescopes are ready to get their first glimpse of the cosmic monster at the heart of our galaxy

New and very precise observations using the HARPS spectrograph at the ESO 3.6 - metre telescope at La Silla, Chile, have now not only detected the motion of the spots due to the rotation of Ceres about its axis, but also found unexpected additional variations suggesting that the material of the spots is volatile and evaporates in sunlight.

Optical interferometry at CHARA requires collecting the light beams from six different telescopes, sifting through multiple gigabytes of data, and then combining the beams to synthesize the kind of image that otherwise would be possible only with an enormous space telescope.

If you don't know what you are looking at, it is very hard to book telescope time or to secure funding for more studies.