Terry Gaetz , Astrophysicist . Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory . ... As part of the SAO/MST AXAF Mission Support Team, I contributed to reviews of the design and manufacture of the High Resolution Mirror Assembly (HRMA) and Optical Bench portions of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO), and also to the alignment of the X-Ray mirrors. ... Currently I work on the calibration of the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) as part of the CXC Calibration group. Here is a schematic of the observatory. ...

... Samara State Aerospace University Staff Moiseev Mikhail Aleksandrovich . ... Byzov E.V. , Moiseev M.A. , Doscolovich L.L. Design method for automotive high-beam LED optics // Optical Systems Design 2015, 7 - 10 Сентября 2015, Йена, Германия, SPIE Proceedings, 2015, P. 1-7 . ... Moiseev M. A. , Doskolovich L.L. , Dmitriev A.Yu., ... Doskolovich L.L. , Kazanskiy N.L. , Moiseev M. A. Design of high-efficient free-form LED lens for road illumination // Proceedings SPIE, 2011.. 2011. ... M.A. Moiseev . ...

... Telescopes . ... The spectrograph is installed in the Nasmyth focus of the BTA telescope, the equivalent focal length is 186 m (F/31). ... The preslit device unit is marked by number 3. ... Fig. ... slit unit of the MSS, 4.1 ? ... The spectrograph slit unit consists of a mirror that redirects the light beam from the Z axis and from the calibration path at an angle of 65њ to the axis of the telescope focus into the slit, the order separation filter, the block of the slit and the shutter (Item 4 in...

... GIANT Magellan Telescope . Dr. Dan Fabricant . ... The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is a 25 meter diameter optical-infrared telescope that will be sited in Chile. ... Dr. Fabricant, a leader in the design of new instruments for optical astrophysics, led the development of the optical and instrument design for the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) in Arizona. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... The IDL-based simulation software Code for Adaptive Optics Systems (CAOS) was originally developed to simulate the behavior of generic adaptive optics systems. ... We present in this paper the last version (3.0) of the CAOS Simulation Package, together with an example of an application to the Large Binocular Telescope interferometer adaptive optics system. ... Table 1 shows a complete list, together with a very brief description, of the modules of CAOS Simulation Package 3.0. ...

RF/Fiber Optic WDM Transceiver AC231W Features · 2000 MHz Bandwidth · 1.3 or 1.5 µm DFB Low Noise Laser · High Dynamic Range · WDM for bidirectional transmission · Internal Optical Isolator · Monitoring and Alarm Capability · Laser Disable · Singlemode Fiber Description The AC 231W is a linear, low noise RF fiber optic transceiver designed for fiber optic wireless systems and broadband RF applications. ... A laser and received optical power monitor and alarm is provided. ...

... This experiment makes use of a novel an sophisticated CCD imaging design whereby by 4 2048x2048 detectors are butted together to form a single 4096x4096 pixel detector system. ... Figure 4 (1.1 Megs) shows an example image from one of the LMC fields that is searched for gravitational microlensing amplification of stellar brightness. ... Figure 5 (124 Kbytes) shows an image of NGC 253, taken with this camera and a 320x512 RCA CCD which has 30 micron size pixels. ... Page 5 . ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Projects . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Donations . ... In 1995, Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (now Goodrich Optical and Space Systems Division, Electro-Optical Systems) donated to Winer a 2/3-m (26.5-inch) Corning Ultra Low Expansion ULE lightweighted mirror. Using this donation as a basis, we entered into a project with a private, non-sectarian school to design and build a telescope for the school and one for us. ...

... An Education in Optics . Dissect & Modify the Camera . ... At the University of Arizona's Astronomy Camps, we dissect, modify, and reload disposed "One-Time Use" cameras to allow students to study engineering principles and to photograph the night sky. ... The KODAK One-Time Use cameras with (right) and without (left) the flash unit. ... The "One-Time Use" cameras contain at least six interesting optical components. ... Computer ray trace of the simulated optics in a One-Time Use camera. ...

... The predictive power of current models (the so-called meteor forecasting) has given us the exact timing of the Leonid storms of 2001 and 2002 to the nearest hour and are now used to predict the arrival times of major annual showers such as the Perseids . ... Towards this goal, the Observatory has installed a sky-monitoring system, consisting of one medium angle (MA) and two wide-angle (WA) video cameras linked to software designed to detect motion. ... Bright Taurid Meteor . ... Meteors on Mars . ...

Optical Communication Experiment using Very Small Optical transmitter with SLR station National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Space Communications System Laboratory Hiroo Kunimori and VSOTA TEAM Sep 24, 2012 WPLTN Technical Workshop@St.Petersburg, Russia Table of Contents Backgound:HODOYOSHI Project JapaneseHODOYOHI= Reasonable Reliability Engineering to develop series of 50kg Satellite. ... How to share wavelength communication beam and ranging beams. ...

... Credit: The HESS Collaboration Explanation: Most ground-based telescopes with lenses and mirrors are hindered by the Earth's nurturing, protective atmosphere that blurs images and scatters and absorbs light. But t