We are pleased to announce the public release of the "Flash Detection Software", which was developed by the National Observatory of Athens for ESA. We invite both amateur or professional astronomers performing planetary observations with video cameras or fast-frame CMOS/CCDs to test…

The Institute of Astronomy Astrophysics Space Applications & Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens operates Helmos observatory, which was selected as the first Optical Ground Station under the ScyLight framework. Project HOTSPOT (https://artes.esa.int/projects/hotspot) aims to identify all possible…

23 November 2022, 11:00-13:00 CET. Operational Unit BEYOND of IAASARS|NOA is inviting you at the webinar on European Union's Earth Observation (EO) Programme ‘Copernicus’ which is organized in collaboration with PRAXI Network. The purpose of this webinar is to introduce…

Between June 26 and July 2, laser optical links were made between the Aristarchos telescope and the AlphaSat telecommunication satellite. The team visiting from ESA worked with the Helmos Observatory team to complete several experiments in which the telescope not…

Gaia is a European Space Agency mission that aims to create the most accurate and complete multi-dimensional map of the Milky Way. This allows astronomers to reconstruct our home galaxy’s past and future evolution over billions of years, to better…

You can check the spatiοtemporal evolution of the smoke plum from the fire in Glyfada as simulated from the operational particle dispersion model FLEXPART-WRF of BEYOND / NOA on http://smoke.beyond-eocenter.eu/.

On May 6, Emmy Paraskeva recently completed her PhD at the Department of Physics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in collaboration with the National Observatory of Athens, under the supervision of Dr. Bonanos. The subject of her thesis was "Characterizing the…