Sentences with phrase «metre telescopes»

EURONEAR, The European Near Earth Asteroids Research, is a project to establish a coordinated network which will follow - up, recover and discover Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) using two automated dedicated 1 metre telescopes located in both hemispheres and other facilities available to the members of the network.

The team, led by Professor Gerd Weigelt (MPIfR), combined the infrared light of Eta Carinae employing three movable 1.8 - metre telescopes of the ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer.

The VLT consists of four 8 - metre telescopes that can work individually or in tandem, producing remarkable images of the distant reaches of the Universe.

That gave ESO the confidence to build its Very Large Telescope, made up of four 8.2 metre telescopes that could work together or independently.

The way in which schools register to become part of the Faulkes Telescope Project and have access to the LCOGT network of 0.4 - metre, 1 - metre and 2 - metre telescopes has now changed.

The design of the # 200 million VLT calls for four 8.2 - metre telescopes and three 1.8 - metre telescopes to be built in the Atacama desert on the peak of the 2660 - metre - high Cerro Paranal.

But no observers, not even at the 10 - metre telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, immediately reported seeing a debris plume.

Moreover, gargantuan 30 - metre telescopes planned for the future should be able to spot stars that venture even closer to the black hole, providing an even greater test of Einstein's theory.

It is installed on Yepun, one of the four 8.2 - metre telescopes that make up the VLT in Cerro Paranal, Chile.

These should benefit a range of observers at the twin 8.1 - metre telescopes.

These will include planet - hunting stalwarts such as the HARPS instrument at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile, and the new Miniature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA)- Australis, a group of five planned 0.7 - metre telescopes near Toowoomba, Australia.

The MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a richly colourful view of the bright star cluster NGC 3532.

The MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile captured this richly colourful view of the bright star cluster NGC 3532.

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.

[1] The Orion Nebula has been studied by many of ESO's telescopes, including images in visible light from the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope (eso1103) and infrared images from VISTA (eso1701) and the HAWK - I instrument on the Very Large Telescope (eso1625).

This colourful new image from the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the star cluster NGC 3590.

It combines a mosaic of millimetre wavelength images from the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the IRAM 30 - metre telescope, shown in red, with a more familiar infrared view from the HAWK - I instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, shown in blue.

It combines a mosaic of millimetre - wavelength images from the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the IRAM 30 - metre telescope, shown in red, with a more familiar infrared view from the HAWK - I instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, shown in blue.

This image from the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at La Silla, shows the cluster and the gas clouds surrounding it, which glow in orange and red hues due to the radiation coming from nearby hot stars.

As one of the closest stellar nurseries, Lupus 3 has been the subject of many studies; in 2013, the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile captured a smaller picture of its dark smoke - like columns and brilliant stars (eso1303).

[1] The team used data from the UVES spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile (to determine the properties of the star accurately), the Carnegie Planet Finder Spectrograph (PFS) at the 6.5 - metre Magellan II Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, the HIRES spectrograph mounted on the Keck 10 - metre telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii as well as extensive previous data from HARPS (the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) at ESO's 3.6 - metre telescope in Chile (gathered through the M dwarf programme led by X. Bonfils and M. Mayor 2003 - 2010.

The team used the HARPS planet - finding instrument on ESO's 3.6 - metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory.

A team of astronomers has combined new observations of Gliese 667C with existing data from HARPS at ESO's 3.6 - metre telescope in Chile, to reveal a system with at least six planets.

This camera is permanently mounted at the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory.

«The band has not faded significantly since September, indicating that this ejecta may take years to settle out of the upper atmosphere,» says Tom Herbst of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, who used a 3.5 - metre telescope to study Jupiter in the near infrared on 19 December.

[4] The event was predicted following a systematic search conducted with the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory and recently published.

The two groups arrived at their disparate results using some of the same data, which was collected by HARPS, an instrument mounted on a 3.6 - metre telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile.

The Wide Field Imager on the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile captured this new picture.

Using the 1 - metre telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, Zaritsky observed thousands of other galaxies that appear behind NGC 2835 and NGC 3521.

Subsequent observations from the Chilean telescope, and spectra taken from the ANU 2.3 metre telescope at Siding Spring, confirmed the planet had an orbit of just one - tenth that of Mercury, and orbits its star every 3.3 days.

The $ 1.6 - billion IDECS design has two types of detectors and would use all three observational methods on a 1.5 - metre telescope.

Jewitt and Luu found two of the new objects with a 2.2 - metre telescope at Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

On October 16, 2012, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of a planet with around 1.13 + / - 0.09 Earth - masses in a very hot and tight, circular orbit around Alpha Centauri B, using the European Southern Observatory's the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument on the 3.6 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile.

It combines a mosaic of millimeter - wavelength images from the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the IRAM 30 - metre telescope, shown in red, with a more familiar infrared view from the HAWK - I instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope shown in blue.

On October 16, 2012, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of a planet with around 1.13 + / - 0.09 Earth - masses in a very hot and tight, circular orbit around Alpha Centauri B, using the European Southern Observatory's High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument on the 3.6 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile.

A group of researchers has observed the first ground - based transit observation of K2 - 3d — a potentially Earth - like extrasolar planet supposedly within the habitable zone around a bright M - dwarf host star 147 light - years away — using the multi-band imager MuSCAT on the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory's 1.88 - metre telescope.

In 1962, the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria named their 1.2 - metre telescope in his honour.

A new image of the Trifid Nebula, named by English astronomer John Herschel, was taken with the Wide - Field Imager camera attached to the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile.

The Kitt Peak National Observatory (USA) mounted a 320 x 512 pixel digital camera on their 1 - metre telescope and quickly demonstrated the superiority of CCDs over photographic plates.

At the time of its inauguration, the observatory housed a 1.88 - metre telescope, the second largest in the world after the Mount Wilson telescope in the United States, and Canada thus owned two of the four largest telescopes in the world.

In 1968, the 25.6 - metre radio telescope at Penticton was used in conjunction with the 46 - metre telescope at the Algonquin Radio Observatory to simulate the resolution of a giant radio telescope measuring 3,074 kilometres (the physical distance between the two instruments).

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.

Because of that, the final images are as sharp as if they had been observed from a giant 130 - metre telescope.

This image was created from exposures taken through blue, green and near - infrared filters, using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile.

Not exact matches

This image was taken by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), a state - of - the - art 2.6 - metre survey telescope with a field of view that is twice as broad as the full Moon.

Canada holds a 15 % stake in the two 8 - metre Gemini Telescopes in Hawaii and Chile and a 43 % partnership in the Canada - France - Hawaii telescope, also in Hawaii.

LATE one summer night in 1845, the 3rd Earl of Rosse climbed up to an 18 - metre - high platform to focus a telescope on a nebula known as M51.

To fit inside its rocket, the JWST's 6.5 - metre - high reflector, six times larger than Hubble's, is folded into 18 hexagonal pieces, which will assemble to function as a single giant mirror once the telescope is in orbit.

For each of the stars the team used the 1.8 - metre Auxiliary Telescopes to feed light to the VLTI.

The domes housing each of the four 8 - metre mirrors that make up the Very Large Telescope spin around almost silently, and mighty doors slide open to give the telescopes their first glimpse of the emerging stars.