'Kitt peak national observatory' presentation slideshows

Walking on the Sun by Smash Mouth

Walking on the Sun by Smash Mouth. Donna Kubik Spring, 2006. Walking on what?. What is the surface of the sun? Although astronomers talk about the surface of the Sun, the Sun is so hot that it has no liquid nor solid material

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AY 4: The Stars

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The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Light, Astronomical Tools

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Types of Reflecting Telescopes

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OBJECTS IN SPACE

OBJECTS IN SPACE . By, Jacob Emery . Introduction. We live in a solar system in the vast Milky Way Galaxy. The Sun is our central star, orbited by nine planets, and containing more than 100 moons, millions of rocky asteroids, and billions of icy comets and stars. . Galaxies.

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Light and Telescopes

Light and Telescopes. Chapter 6. Guidepost. Previous chapters have described the sky as it appears to our unaided eyes, but modern astronomers turn powerful telescopes on the sky. Chapter 6 introduces us to the modern astronomical telescope and its delicate instruments.

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TELESCOPES

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What it is The one we are building The kind of science one can do with it

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Wide FoV IAC telescopes Initial Design Considerations

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VOLUME-PHASE HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS FOR ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROGRAPHS

VOLUME-PHASE HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS FOR ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROGRAPHS. James A. Arns, Willis S. Colburn, & Mark Benson (Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc.) Samuel C. Barden & Joel B. Williams (National Optical Astronomy Observatories*).

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6.1 day 1: Antiderivatives and Slope Fields

Photo by Vickie Kelly, 2009. Greg Kelly, Hanford High School, Richland, Washington. 6.1 day 1: Antiderivatives and Slope Fields. Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona. Consider:. or. then:. Given:. find. First, a little review:.

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Introduction

Introduction. ASTR 3010 Lecture 1 Chapter 4. http://cosmos.physast.uga.edu/iSong/ASTR3010. Course Homepage. http://cosmos.physast.uga.edu/iSong/ASTR3010

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Introduction

Figure 1: (below) a T-Tauri star with an accretion disk. The accretion disk is the source of gas (and maybe dust) ejected to form Herbig-Haro objects Figure 2: (right) diagram of a Herbig-Haro object. a. b. c.

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SA57X120 NSER14264

spectrograph WYFFOS at the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope (La Palma, Spain). Candidates were selected from three different lists: i) variable extended candidates from BTK work; ii) point-like variable objects from Trevese et al 1989 iii) X-ray selected candidates from the

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