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Acronym: CSO
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Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
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lescopes at or around the summit of Mauna Kea. It will also be the site of the Thirty Meter Telescope and is a proposed site for Pan-STARRS. * '''Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO)''': Caltech * '''Canada France Hawai'i Telescope (CFHT)''': Canada, France, University of Hawai'i * '''[[Gemini Observatory|G |
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Acronym: JCMT
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James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
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d States]], United Kingdom, Canada, Chile, Australia, Argentina, Brazil * '''Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF)''': NASA * '''James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT)''': United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands * '''Subaru (telescope)|Subaru Telescope''': National Astronomical Observatory of Japan * '''Sub-Millimeter Array |
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Acronym: VLBA
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Very Long Baseline Array
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lescope]] (UH88)''': University of Hawai'i * '''UH24|University of Hawai'i telescope (UH24)''': University of Hawaii at Hilo * '''One receiver of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)''': United States * '''W. M. Keck Observatory''': California Association for Research in Astronomy [[Image:Subaru keck tels.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The Subaru Telescope and th |
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Acronym: ING
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Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
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ear sky. Often, the view from the top of the volcano is a sea of clouds covering the eastern part of the island. Telescopes at the observatory include: *The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) operates three telescopes: the William Herschel Telescope, the Isaac Newton Telescope and the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope. *The Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT). *The [[Swedish Sol |
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Acronym: DOT
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Dutch Open Telescope
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. *The Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT). *The Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) operated by the Institute for Solar Physics. *The Dutch Open Telescope (DOT). *A optical telescope. *The Carlsberg Meridian Telescope (CMT). *The Mercator Telescope. *The Liverpool Telescope. *The Gran Telescopio Canarias (Great Canary Telescope, dedi |
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Acronym: TNG
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Telescopio Nazionale Galileo
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MT). *The Mercator Telescope. *The Liverpool Telescope. *The Gran Telescopio Canarias (Great Canary Telescope, dedicated 24 July, 2009). *The Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG). *The MAGIC (Telescope)|MAGIC Telescope, an air shower Cherenkov telescope for observing high energy gamma rays *The SuperWASP-North telescope, used to detect extrasolar planets. Th |
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Acronym: NTT
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New Technology Telescope
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ith a Ritchey-Chretien optical configuration and a flat tertiary mirror feeding two opposite Nasmyth foci. It has a design derived from the New Technology Telescope (NTT), an ESO 4-meters class telescope located in La Silla (Chile). Therefore, the optical quality of the telescope is ensured by an active optics system performing re |
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Acronym: WFC
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Wide Field Camera
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ausible for UK astronomers to run an overseas observatory. In 1979, the INT was shipped to La Palma, where it has remained ever since. Today, it is used mostly with the Wide Field Camera (WFC), a four Charge-coupled device|CCD instrument with a field of view of 0.5 square degrees which was commissioned in 1997. The other main instrument available at the INT is the [[Intermediate Disper |
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Acronym: NO
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nitric oxide
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y)|extinction]] reduces the apparent brightness of the airglow. One airglow mechanism is when an atom of nitrogen combines with an atom of oxygen to form a molecule of nitric oxide (NO). In the process a photon is emitted. This photon may have any of several different wavelengths characteristic of nitric oxide molecules. The free atoms are available for this process because mole |
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Acronym: AO
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adaptive optics
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cross. The E-ELT would need to use a similar design. In addition, the E-ELT would also need to use techniques to work around atmospheric distortion of incoming light, known as adaptive optics (AO). Project E-ELT has the aim of observing the Universe in greater detail than even the Hubble Space Telescope. A mirror of approximately would allow the study of the atmospheres of [[extrasol |
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Acronym: CTA
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Cherenkov Telescope Array
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e are currently four major ground based telescopes including CANGAROO III, MAGIC (telescope)|MAGIC, HESS and VERITAS. Currently under design are the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), and the Advanced Gamma-ray Imagin System (AGIS). Due to the rapidly falling flux of gamma-ray photons from cosmic sources in this energy regime, space-based detectors become ineffective d |
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Acronym: CAST
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CERN Axion Solar Telescope
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==Other types of observation== Most solar observatories observe optically at visible, UV, and near infrared wavelengths, but other things can be observed. *CERN Axion Solar Telescope(CAST), looks for solar axions in the early 2000s *Multi-spectral solar telescope array (MSSTA), a rocket launched payload of UV telecopes in the 1990s *Leoncito Astronomical Complex operated |
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Acronym: NASA
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National Aeronautic and Space Administration
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ship with USA and Germany * the Very Long Baseline Interferometry consortium * the European Space Agency (ESA) * the American National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) ==Notable figures== * Tommaso Maccacaro, president of INAF since 2008 ==External links== * [http://www.inaf.it/ Official website of INAF] * [http://www.media.inaf.it/ Public and press w |
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