Sentences with phrase «telescope time»

The programme makes use of telescope time that can not be used for science observations.

But competition for telescope time on the ground is fierce, especially with so many planet hunters around.

The new and old maps are very similar even though the old map required over 20 times more telescope time to acquire.

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.

Multiple ownership helps more students and faculty members get precious telescope time.

This essentially tells you how many hours of telescope time is request for every hours available.

The agreement also provides for telescope time to allow a careful search programme to be conducted in 2019.

This may explain why only 26 have been spotted during the past decade — with telescope time in high demand, there aren't enough instruments available to watch every patch of the sky and wait.

There is only so much telescope time for JWST, however, and as with Hubble observations, astronomers will receive access on a competitive basis.

The imaging data demonstrated that these sources are strongly lensed by foreground galaxies, which increases their apparent luminosities by a factor of ~ 10, which translates to a savings in telescope time of ~ 100, and allows such distant and intrinsically faint objects to be more easily detected.

In recognition of the Hungarian efforts, Konkoly Observatory will have guaranteed telescope time to use MATISSE, and the astronomers plan to obtain an image of the protoplanetary disc around FU Orionis, a young star that showed a powerful outburst.

It's important to note that, during this 7 - year period, Brazilian astronomers were able to secure as much telescope time as their European counterparts, proving that our research community is mature enough to compete internationally.

Our EDEN pilot survey received all the requested telescope time on five telescopes ranging from 0.7 m diameter to 2.3 m!

The ESO team is testing the hardware and hopes to start observing in mid-2019 with 100 hours of dedicated telescope time.

Given a few months total of telescope time stretched across perhaps three years, Lovis and Snellen say, they could image Proxima b and probe the planet's atmosphere for signs of oxygen, water vapor and methane — all crucial measurements for determining whether that faraway world is actually much like Earth at all.

So catching a complete observation of KELT - 6b took more patience and substantially more luck than usual — a total of seven hours of continuous telescope time with clear skies during darkness.

Twenty - five percent of telescope time seemingly wasted seems a lot for a valued observatory to swallow, especially when the highly oversubscribed Hubble Space Telescope has a 90 % publication rate.

The mystery of Tabby's Star is so compelling that more than 1,700 people donated over $ 100,000 through a Kickstarter campaign in support of dedicated ground - based telescope time to observe and gather more data on the star through a network of telescopes around the world.

To make these detections, astronomers would need to observe the exoplanets at least 30 times, taking valuable telescope time.

«A bottleneck right now is having enough telescope time to follow up on all these interesting candidates that we have,» Batalha says.

E.M. led the team that developed the PS1 image processing system, contributed Keck telescope time, performed the observing and reduced the data.

This lensing effect makes the background galaxies appear brighter, cutting the amount of telescope time needed to observe them by 100 times.

Francesco Vezzoli is an artist whose work telescopes time.

We've just asked for more telescope time to go back and check, in case we've missed some phosphorus - rich regions in the Crab Nebula.»

Hungarian researchers and engineers from Konkoly Observatory also contributed to the realization of the instrument by technical design, software development, and equipment testing, for which Hungarian astronomers will have guaranteed telescope time to use MATISSE.

Data from WISE may generate proposals for telescope time on Herschel for more detailed follow - up observations, says Paul Goldsmith, project scientist for Herschel at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Goldsmith's JPL colleagues will manage ground operations for WISE; Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah, designed and built its instrumentation, and Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft itself.)

To aid the process of obtaining additional observations, the MPC produces a list that is generally available of objects that need further observations and are currently visible so that observers with telescope time can make a special effort to observe these objects, thus ensuring that the elements of the orbit are secure.

«After that, we could have gotten telescope time to do anything,» Snyder says.

Today's «Breakthrough Listen» project aims to quicken the pace of SETI with increased amounts of telescope time, improved technology, and the development of new open - source software to process the huge quantities of data it will produce.

The telescoped time of Logue's simile» as the opposing armies square off» fuses the melancholy of history with the sadness of nature:

«My cat Gizmo likes to watch my telescope every time I prepare it for a field observation,» says Michal Lewenstein.

Virginia Trimble, an astronomer at the University of California, Irvine, says that, on a per - telescope basis, both publication and citation counts for Gemini have fallen behind those of its rivals (see «Paper chase»), and the demand for telescope time has fallen.

Adding new members will increase competition for telescope time, which is allotted to researchers based on the scientific merit of proposals.

Astronomers using SALT will instead run remotely submitted observing programs, which advocates of this approach claim is a much more efficient way of using telescope time.

Astronomers around the world volunteered labor and telescope time to monitor the star across the electromagnetic spectrum, giving us access to spectral information we lacked during the dips observed by the Kepler mission.

In astronomy, telescope time is more precious than gold.

With your help we can secure the telescope time necessary to solve the mystery.

«It takes more telescope time.

Hundreds of hours of telescope time would need to be dedicated to the task.

The election to use peer review was made both to ensure that the NRAO staff was not treated more favorably, and of course to try to maximize the use of the telescope time.

NASA in January kicked off what is expected to be a heated competition for telescope time.

In the proposed program, construction of new instrumentation at private observatories is funded in exchange for telescope time or other, equally valuable benefits for the community at large.

We thank all of the directors who evaluated the requests for telescope time and facilitated the execution of the programmes on the telescopes: L. Ferrarese (Gemini), R. Ivison (ESO), D. Simons (CFHT) and R. McLaren (UKIRT).

In addition to the telescope time awarded to them through the California Institute of Technology, the team exchanged valuable time on the 8 - meter Subaru Telescope, also on Maunakea, for enough time on Keck Observatory to complete the research.

K.J.M. led the team post-discovery, including securing the telescope time for characterization and preparing for observing, contributed to data reduction and performed the sublimation modelling.

This 10» x3» map required about 40 minutes of telescope time and was taken in non-optimal weather conditions (zenith opacity of 0.42).