Sentences with phrase «on the telescope»

By contract, Chilean astronomers get 10 % of the observation time on each telescope installed in the country.

One, which had apparently never been opened, held a stack of brass frames that were used to hold the glass tiles in place on the telescope while the images were exposed.

A tablet positioned on a telescoping arm powers the entertainment system.

A robotic arm does the honors, fitting the last of the telescope's 18 mirrors into place on the telescope structure.

Once the lesson on the telescope was conducted, astronomers at the museum also took requests to view planets and stars in the night sky.

A laser on the telescope tracks the satellite's location in the sky.

The first camera to be completed and go on the telescope is going to find all the low - hanging fruit.

The construction approval means work will begin on the telescope's core structure and the scientific instruments that lie at the heart of this $ 1 billion project.

This model, if applied globally, would allow any astronomer to submit research proposals and observe on any telescope without the involvement of governments or private funders in the process.

The scientific community pleaded on the telescope's behalf.

You can read about our technologies on our telescopes page or in our detailed published research papers.

It has allowed the students to further their learning on telescopes.

It's so hard to get time on a telescope.

Based on telescope observations of young sunlike stars, researchers estimate that «super» solar flares bombarded Earth with energetic particles at least once a day around 4 billion years ago.

By measuring the CMB polarization data provided by POLARBEAR, a collaboration of astronomers working on a telescope in the high - altitude desert of northern Chile designed specifically to detect «B - mode» polarization, the UC San Diego astrophysicists discovered weak gravitational lensing in their data that, they conclude, permit astronomers to make detailed maps of the structure of the universe, constrain estimates of neutrino mass and provide a firm test for general relativity.

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

A new spectrograph (inset), mounted on this telescope in Chile, may have found the first rocky planet circling a sunlike star outside our solar system.

Harrington believes Planet X lies in the southern sky but his search has come to a temporary end because he has not won any additional time on a telescope in the southern hemisphere.

In the future, planetary scientists will increasingly rely on telescopes based in space to locate even tinier Earth candidates.

This element is contained in the exoplanet's atmosphere, and has been measured by the HARPS spectrometer, an instrument designed at the UNIGE Observatory, and installed on a telescope of the European Star Observatory (ESO) in Chile.

It's very difficult to get 12 hours a day on any telescope in the world, and that's what we have.»

Moreover, because Alpha Centauri A and B are so bright and close together, Webb's coronagraph could only block the light of one star while the light from the other beats down for tens of hours on the telescope's delicate, irreparable sensors — a risk that mission operators are unlikely to take.

These measurements were made after installing wind and air temperature sensors on the telescope and at the top of one of the Keck domes.

In other words, an over-subscription rate of 2.0 mean twice as much time was requested for science on the telescope as is available.

A specialized camera on a telescope operated by U.K. astronomers from Liverpool has made the first measurement of magnetic fields in the afterglow of a gamma - ray burst

A specialized camera on a telescope operated by U.K. astronomers from Liverpool has made the first measurement of magnetic fields in the afterglow of a gamma - ray burst (GRB).

Following the success of the DASI, CapMap and QUaD experiments, two new experiments are being developed: SPT - pol, a large detector array for the 10 meter South Pole Telescope; and QUIET, a new experiment using large arrays of detectors on telescopes in Chile's Atacama Desert.

This binary concept is based on telescope observations made at Patagonia, Argentina on July 17, 2017 when MU69 passed in front of a star.

While there is no tariff on telescoping umbrellas, China is one of the US's and the world's only suppliers.

Though plagued by cost overruns, and a ghastly blunder in manufacturing the main mirror that had to be corrected by a Space Shuttle mission in December 1993 (which, essentially, put corrective eyeglasses on the telescope), the....

Can it be found on a telescope?

If you're looking for a CMOS camera you can mount on your telescope so you can get amazing images of deep space, well, this is the camera for you.

Reaching a seamless synergy among this holy trinity — high - performance coronagraph, deformable mirror and instrumental stability — is so formidable it has scarcely been achieved in laboratories here on Earth, and has never even been attempted on a telescope in space.

TUCSON, ARIZONA — Two cosmologies have collided on telescope - dense Mount Hopkins south of here — and the loser for now appears to be the Smithsonian Institution.

The Planet Observer's Handbook begins with a general description of the Solar System, followed by an account of the celestial sphere and a particularly good chapter on telescopes and accessories — the diagrams here are among the best I have seen for a long time.

SS: Any time you put a new and more capable instrument on a telescope, you always find new things.

«I was lucky that this x-ray light turned on when I was observing, but I was also very well prepared, because it takes a lot of work to get this time awarded on a telescope,» she says.

«The number - one thing is having a large collecting area [on the telescope,]» she says.

Pisciotta's group has already filed a motion in a state court asking that work on the telescope not be allowed to proceed while the case was on appeal.

They include requiring TMT employees to attend cultural and natural resources training, implementing an invasive species control program on the telescope site, and providing $ 1 million a year for a «community benefits package,» including local science education and workforce development programs.

Over the course of the telescope's five - year mission, the moon's gravity will tug on the telescope, pulling it up to 390,000 kilometres from Earth.

Four antennae positioned on the telescope transmit and receive information between Hubble and the Flight Operations Team at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

Astro tweeps on telescopes in the next 48 hours: spectra please!»

Kepler lead scientist William Borucki, with NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, said he's not surprised by the finding of the European team, which uses a light - splitting spectrograph called HARPS on a telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile to look for planets beyond the solar system.

Surely the astronomers didn't spend years working on the telescope only to be satisfied with unremarkable snapshots of outer space.

This means it will be bombarded by high - energy cosmic rays, which can interfere with signals, or even build up enough of an electrical charge to cause small lightning strikes on the telescope.

That was one of the clear themes in a recent panel discussion on the telescope at the South By Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, where a full scale model of the JWST was also on display outdoors all week long.