... GSAOI Home . Instrument . ... The Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) is a near-infrared adaptive optics camera that will be used with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system on the Gemini South 8-m telescope . ... Gemini's major instrumentation goal is to develop its Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system for scientific use on Gemini South. ... Existing adaptive optics systems use a single natural guide star or artifical laser guide star to measure this image blur. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

... SKA lifetime will extend to 2050 ­ Frequencies above 2 GHz will require a flux concentrator ­ If multi-fielding is to be feasible in 1st half of century, need to pursue an omni concentrator In a LL SKA implementation antenna cost is minimum with small lenses ­ A r2 ; dielectric volume r3 ­ Small lenses lead to same electronics-dominated regime as AA » Evolutionary path with advancing technology ( e.g . DSP) ...

Some Effects of Earthquakes, Temperature, Wind Stor ms and Barometric Pressure on the Inter ferometer at Hanford Robert Schofield Masahiro Ito Rauha Rahkola Evan Mauceli Ray Frey David Strom Jim Brau University of Oregon Some Concerns With Low Frequency Influences · Loss of lock · Need for increased servo loop gain · May eat up actuator range · Possible increased background in the LIGO frequency band · Possible modulation of noise in the LIGO band Guralp ...

... Direct data transmission rate (Mbps) . ... the density of electron fluexs with energies in four bands from 0.04 MeV to 1.7 MeV; . ... sensor (TV, IR) data and heliogeophisical information (HGI) transmission to data receiving and processing centers at a rate of up to 2.56 Mbps; . ... 1.76 GHz - TV- and heliogeophysical information and DCLI's data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . 7.5 GHz - TV- and heliogeophisical data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication SSRT - Siberian Solar Radio Telescope . ...

INFRARED FOURIER-SPECTROMETER SICH-F . ... Instrument work regimes: 1) Inside. 2) Calibration at inside standard sources 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 3) Calibration at "free space" 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 4) Infrared radiation measuring 10 - 40 min. per a rotation. ... Spectrometer consists of the photodetector block and the block of signal processing and control. ... Diagnostic information and attach data will transfer by state telemetric channels. ... Detector temperature. ...

... There are preliminary series of photometric and radio spectral observations of the above-mentioned stars, archival data on the light curves of the stars, results of the search for OH and H 2 O maser emission in IRAS point sources that possess the IR parameters similar to Miras. ... The aim is a detailed study of the maser emission variability. ... In 1996-1997, astronomical observations of Mira Ceti-type stars (miras) were carried out in three spectral ranges: optical, infrared, and radio. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The top panel shows an image of the Sun in the O VI 1032 line obtained on 1996 June 7 by the SUMER instrument, with the three regions for which O VI 1032 and 1038 line intensities were determined from SUMER spectra labelled as A, B and C. The remaining panels show plots of the measured I(1032)/I(1038) ratios for each region. ... A similar effect can take place between lines of differing optical depth. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Twenty-Six Year Monitoring of Water Masers IAU Symposium 242, Alice Springs 1 Contents of the work A sample of H2O maser emission sources has been observed since 1980. ... Rudnitskij et al. ... Twenty-Six Year Monitoring of Water Masers IAU Symposium 242, Alice Springs 4 Maser in a protoplanetary disc (S255) Flux density, Jy S255: H2O line profile 5 February 2002 Radial velocity, LSR, km/s Rudnitskij et al. ... Twenty-Six Year Monitoring of Water Masers IAU Symposium 242, Alice Springs 12 ...

MFS . Data archive MFS . ... Data archive HSFA . ... Catalogue of solar flares . Atlas MFS . Data archive MFS [FTS, AVI] . Data MFS-2009 . Data MFS-2010 . Data MFS-2011 . Data MFS-2012 . Flares archiv with asymmetry absorption . ... Catalogue of prominence 2011 . Catalogue of prominence 2012 . ... Data MFS-2013 . Data MFS-2014 . Data MFS-2015 . ...

Southern Lights and Shuttle Glow . ... Credit Copyright: STS-39 Crew, NASA Explanation: A background of distant stars, sinuous and spiky bands of Southern Lights (Aurora Australis) , and the faint glow of charged plasma ( ionized atomic gas ) surrounding the Space Shuttle Discovery's engines give this photo from the STS-39 mission an eerie, otherworldly look. ... The aurora seen here are at a height of about 50-80 miles. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...

... Telescopes . ... Method "Spectroscopy with the Main Stellar Spectrograph (MSS) of the BTA" . ... The MSS of the 6-m BTA telescope is a long-slit spectrograph, stationary installed in the rack of the Nasmyth-2 focus (Vasiliev et al. ... Design, engineering and manufacturing of the spectrograph were carried out in parallel with the creation of the BTA telescope. ... Panchuk V.E., SAO Preprint ? ... BTA telescope. ... The main stellar spectrograph, Leningrad: LOMO (1974) (in Russian). ...

. This image shows galaxies NGC 5011B (top) and NGC 5011C (bottom galaxy). NGC 5011C is a dwarf galaxy located in the Centaurus A group, while its companion on the sky is in fact an S0 galaxy, located 12 times further away and belonging to the Centaurus cluster of galaxies. The composite image is based on data obtained with the EFOSC2 instrument on the 3.6-meter telescope at the ESO La Silla Observatory in three different wavebands (B, V, and R). The total integration time is 3 minutes. ESO

Click here for a PDF version of Richard Berry's talk. Universe 2001: Results of Saturday Evening Imaging . ... Support data for calibrating the CCD consisted of eight bias frames and four 60-second dark frames. ... To rescue the images, we processed and registered the four 15-second integrations and the 60-second integration separately. ... The 60-second images were then registered to the composite of 15-second images to produce the image M11-COMBO.FTS. ...

Lessons learned from the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing Tony Travouillon Sebastian Els, Angel Otarola, Reed Riddle, Matthias Schoeck, Warren Skidmore TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 1 Introduction TMT and its Site testing. Important choice before going on site. ... Considerations during analysis of the data. TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 2 Some Background about the TMT Site Testing TMT is a 30m, segmented, RitcheyChretien telescope design. ... ASCA Cloud Cover Analysis So how do we do it in practice? ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...