----- Original Message ----- From: <claus.habfast@esa.int> To: <john@satcom.freeserve.co.uk> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 1:51 PM Subject: Man-made Star Shines in the Southern Sky / ESA TV Exchanges / 28-02-2006 > ESA BROADCAST CENTRE > > Dear John , > > The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be: > 28-Feb-06 10:15 - 10:30 GMT > Man-made Star Shines in the Southern Sky > ESA TV Exchanges > > Background information on the transmission: > > Replay 1: 28 February 2006, 16:00-16:15 GMT > > Replay 2: 4 March 2006, 11:30-11:45 GMT > > Today's transmission is a Video News Release by the European Southern > Observatory, ESO. > > ESO astronomers have been able to create an "artificial star", 90 km high > in the atmosphere, using a laser beam. This "star" can be put at any point > in the sky, and it enables the adaptive optics of the VLT telescope to be > used throughout the visible sky. Until now, adaptive optics required the > light of a strong natural star as a reference - as of now, the artificial > star will take this over. > > The new technology therefore enlarges the field of vision of the most > powerful telescope on Earth, to hitherto inaccessible regions. > > The script is online as a PDF file under > http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS44693.pdf > > This ESA TV Exchanges feed is transmitted by the European Commission's > "Europe by Satellite" (EbS) service. You can find the complete > transmission schedule and download scripts and shot lists, also for ESA TV > items, from the EbS Web site at http://europa.eu.int/comm/ebs/schedule.cfm > > More background information can be found on www.eso.org. > > > > Transmission details:EUTELSAT HOT BIRD at 13° East (DVB/MPEG-2) > Horizontal, F=12,476 MHz (MCPC, Europe by Satellite) > SR=27,500 MS/sec, FEC=3/4 > > > For further information, visit our website at http://television.esa.int. > For other enquires, contact Claus Habfast, Tel +31 71 565 3838, Fax +31 71 > 565 6340, e-mail claus.habfast@esa.int. > > With kind regards > > ESA TV Service > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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