Sentences with phrase «telescope time on»

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

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.)

Not exact matches

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.

We will also apply for more observation time on the ALMA telescope to study the planet - forming discs in even higher resolution to get more detailed information about their chemical composition,» says Jes Jørgensen, associate professor in the research group Astrophysics and Planetary Science at the Niels Bohr Institute and Centre for Star and Planet Formation, University of Copenhagen.

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

A WATERY telescope has just released its debut map of the sky, measuring for the first time how often black holes flicker on and off.

Yet despite its high public visibility and near - ubiquity in blockbuster Hollywood science fiction, throughout most of its 55 - year history SETI has languished on the fringes of scientific research, garnering relatively scant funding and only small amounts of dedicated observation time on world - class telescopes.

By the time the telescope comes online, he and colleagues expect to be able to store 100 terabytes on a cartridge of a similar size to their prototype, by shrinking the width of the recording tracks and using more accurate systems for positioning the read - write heads used to access them.

Around the same time, at Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA), astronomer Harold McAlister championed an interferometry machine combining the light from six separate telescopes on California's Mount Wilson.

The team observed CI Tau dozens of times from the University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas; the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.; the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility and the Keck II telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii; and the Kitt Peak National Observatory's 2.1 - and 4 - meter telescopes in southern Arizona.

A: The scientists who established research programs that are dependent on data from ESO telescopes will undoubtedly suffer, having to rearrange their programs or look for European collaborators to be principal investigators on their own projects, in order to get the observing time they need.

In combat zones like Afghanistan and Mali, on humanitarian missions in places like Haiti and the Philippines, and on peacekeeping missions in Rwanda or Kosovo, the challenges are accentuated with each new case, telescoped in a short period of time «This isn't M * A * S * H,» said Williams - Jones.

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

We also have around 10 nights per year observation time on bigger telescopes in public and professional observatories, which allows us to employ a narrow band methane filter to detect fireballs in Jupiter's upper atmosphere more efficiently.

In the big scheme of things two months of observing time on our best space telescope might be worthwhile if it reveals something there associated with life.»

The poet Alfred Noyes, who was at Mount Wilson on November 1, 1917, when the completed telescope first turned to the sky, later wrote of the scientists: «Where was the gambler that would stake so much, — / Time, patience, treasure, on a single throw?

Currently, he said, there's no law preventing people from renting time on a radio telescope and «firing off a signal.»

He persuaded Caltech to install an 18 - inch Schmidt telescope that became the first astronomical instrument on Mount Palomar, and soon national media were regularly keeping a running tab of how many «star suicides» his survey of the heavens had discovered and how bright they were: 400 to 600 million times as luminous as the sun.

On La Palma we created a pair of photons and sent one of the photons over to Tenerife using a free space telescope link, and on Tenerife we decided a long time before the photon arrived which polarization would be measureOn La Palma we created a pair of photons and sent one of the photons over to Tenerife using a free space telescope link, and on Tenerife we decided a long time before the photon arrived which polarization would be measureon Tenerife we decided a long time before the photon arrived which polarization would be measured.

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.

Follow - up observations at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, an Italian telescope on the Canary Islands, provided the planet's mass: roughly 12 times that of Earth.

In the late 1980s Philippe secured time on a large radio telescope near the Loire Valley and permission to use it as a transmitter of terrestrial signals rather than a receiver of celestial ones.

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

Both teams booked time on the 4 - meter (13 - foot) telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, whose huge CCD detector could capture the light of 5,000 galaxies in 10 minutes.

The study, published online today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, describes how the researchers used the powerful MOSFIRE instrument on the W. M. Keck Observatory's 10 - meter telescope in Hawaii to peer into a time when the universe was still very young and see what the galaxy looked like only 670 million years after the big bang.

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.

The researchers drew on deep x-ray imagery from Chandra, built up over four million seconds (46 days) of telescope exposure time, to identify the ancient black holes.

Some of the SARA telescope's time is devoted to undergraduate astronomy students, who work on internships here.

The entire housing rolls away on rails to help the telescope cool to ambient temperature; an adaptive optics system adjusts 1,000 times per second to remove atmospheric blurring.

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

Florian Peissker, a PhD student at the University of Cologne in Germany, who did much of the observing, says: «Being at the telescope and seeing the data arriving in real time was a fascinating experience,» and Monica Valencia - S., a post-doctoral researcher also at the University of Cologne, who then worked on the challenging data processing adds: «It was amazing to see that the glow from the dusty cloud stayed compact before and after the close approach to the black hole.»

While many astronomers are queuing up for time on the giant telescopes just coming on line, others are drawing plans for even larger telescopes.

He and a few ESO scientists scoured publication databases and identified 1278 projects that were awarded time on any of ESO's telescopes between 2006 and 2013, but which had not published anything by April 2016.

Any astronomer assigned time on the telescope can operate it remotely through the Internet from the Yale, Wisconsin, or Indiana campuses.

While the telescope spied water vapor four different times, on one occasion there was no signature.

Observing time on the telescope is allocated by investment.

It's similar to how GPS uses the timing of satellite signals to determine the position of your cell phone — and it would mean spacecraft would no longer have to rely on radio telescope communications to find their coordinates.

If activists were to succeed in stopping TMT, it wouldn't be the first time: In 2002 a federal court blocked a NASA plan to build a half dozen 1.8 - meter telescopes on the mountain because it failed to do a comprehensive environmental assessment; NASA eventually abandoned the project.

In May, astronauts latched on to the tractor - trailer - size satellite for the fifth and final time to make repairs and add instruments that effectively turn it into a new telescope all over again.

Out in space, astrophysicists are looking hard to see if large black holes are shrinking on a time scale that might be detected by modern telescopes.

But according to a new survey, astronomers are also good at explaining why they don't publish, even after being given time on some of the world's best telescopes.

But new results from the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, indicate that galactic heavyweights were about 100 times more numerous than expected.

«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.

For astronomers, the proposed new telescope represents tremendous promise: With a mirror nearly three times larger than any other on Earth, it could detect signs of life in other solar systems and provide clues to the origins of the universe.

Astronomers wanting time on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) telescopes are less likely to get it if they're women, an internal ESO study has found.

Cowing says that the money pays for radio transmission equipment, rental time on radio telescope networks to track the spacecraft, and travel for team members.

Hubble: A Journey Through Space and Time by Edward Weiler The story of the telescope, and the universe it brought into view, right on your coffee table.

Such discoveries will have to wait until the team gets time on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT)-- a battery of four 8.2 - meter telescopes, also in Chile.

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

To visually track down his putative Planet 9, Brown is requesting 20 nights of observing time on the Subaru telescope in Hawaii, the only large instrument with a wide enough field of view to practically pull off such a search.