CFHT Headline News for 2003
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The first
part of CFHT's Oral History
Initiative is now available online, featuring photographs of the
dome crane cab and the prime focus cage, and an mpeg movie taken inside
CFHT's dome. |
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The Volume 3, Number 4 edition of the HOKU
newletter is now available. It includes a special invitation for
the residents of the Big Island: CFHT will host a Star Party in Waimea,
December 6, 2003 from 7pm to 10 pm (after the Christmas parade), on
the CFHT HQ Front Lawn. CFHT staff will be happy to answer your questions
about their work and astronomy. Small telescopes will be set on the front
lawn in order to observe stars, planets and other deep-sky objects. In
case of rain, we will show videos and offer coffee, cocoa and cookies in
the large conference room. |
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The CFHT 2004 Astronomy calendar is now
available!. CFHT has once again teamed up with Coelum to deliver a
calendar of stunning astronomical images. These twelve gorgeous, true-color
images were obtained with the CFH12K and the MegaCam wide-field CCD imaging
cameras, and are each accompanied by a brief description. |
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Early registration for the CFHT co-sponsored conference
Astronomical
Polarimetry - Current Status and Future Directions ends on 30 November
2003. This conference will be held on the Big Island of Hawaii, March
15-19, 2004, at the Waikoloa Beach Marriott hotel (Outrigger). |
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The Core List
of Astronomy Books, a project coordinated by CFHT's librarian Liz Bryson,
has been updated and is now online at: http://ads.harvard.edu/books/clab/.
Henceforth, the list will only be updated every other year. Book suggestions
and comments are welcomed. |
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CFHT's librarian, Liz Bryson, has initiated an Oral
History project to interview, via video camera and tapes, significant
people and gather first-hand knowledge of historical developments and experiences
that occured during the years 1977-1990. |
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CFHT presents its new Observatory
Manual, an updated version of the previous "Observer's Manual".
The new web document describes the observatory site's characteristics,
the observatory facility, the telescope, and the instruments. |
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HOKU, An Online
Astronomy Newsletter for Educators and Parents Volume 3, Number
3 (Sept. 2003) now available! |
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Semester 2004A is now open
for proposals. The deadline is September 24, 2003 - 24:00 UTC. |
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The CFHT Bulletins all available
online! The early CFHT Bulletins, starting with the first number of
August 1979, have been scanned and added to the more recent bulletins available
online. |
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The Report
of the 63rd meeting of the SAC, which was held in Toulouse, France,
26-27 May 2003, is now available on the web. |
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New
Fast Lane towards Discoveries of Clusters of Galaxies Inaugurated -- Space
and Ground-Based Telescopes Cooperate to Gain Deep Cosmological Insights
CFHT has contributed to the discovery of several large clusters of galaxies.
Using the ESA XMM-Newton satellite, a team of European and Chilean astronomers
has obtained the world's deepest wide-field X-ray image of the cosmos to
date. Complemented with observations by large ground-based optical telescopes
such as the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) and CFHT, this research has
resulted in the discovery of several large clusters of galaxies. |
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New irregular satellites were discovered around Jupiter
by two independent teams using CFHT's new mosaic of CCDs, MegaPrime. See
the IfA teams's Jupiter
Satellite Page and the Canadian team's page on Irregular
Satellites of Jupiter. These new discoveries put Jupiter far ahead
of the all other planets in terms of number of satellites, with 61 known
moons. |
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CFHT
and VLT Identify Extremely Remote Galaxy |
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HOKU, An Online
Astronomy Newsletter for Educators and Parents Volume 3, Number
1 (March 2003) now available! |
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The deadline for the semester 2003B proposals has been extended to
March 27, 2003, 24:00 UTC. More information here |
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Semester 2003B is now open
for proposals. The deadline is March 20, 2003, 24:00 UTC. |
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The report of
the 62th meeting of SAC is now available! |
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MegaPrime
engineering run with MegaCam on the sky for the second time... |
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