Pixels , slits and facets for the NGST NIRSpec: Appendix ST-ECF Instrument Science Report NGST 2002-01a Pixels , slits and facets for a MEMS-type spectrograph for NGST Appendix : Extension to different PSF and detector properties Santiago Arribas, Peter Jakobsen, Robert Fosbury Wolfram Freudling --1-- ST-ECF Instrument Science Report NGST 2002-01a Pixels , slits , and ... This PSF meets the two requirements established by Bely et al. for the OTA optical quality. ...

... XmTel is a telescope control interface designed to to communicate with a telescope server, and Elwood Downey's XEphem, through the INDI protocol. It will also operate as a free-standing program for control of telescopes that use the NexStar, Paramount, and LX200 command sets, telescope drive systems built using Galil's industrial motion controller, and RC Optical's Professional series fork mount with electronics from Telescope Control Systems. ... See the notes in the Galil controller directory. ...

... Astronomers divide stars into different spectral types. ... The Stars of NGC 300 . ... Like grains of sand on a cosmic beach, individual stars of large spiral galaxy NGC 300 are resolved in this sharp image from the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). ... Deep in the normally hidden recesses of giant molecular cloud DR21, a stellar nursery has been found creating some of the most massive stars yet recorded. ... Why would a cloud appear to be different colors? ...

Atmospheric influence on the different radio-engineering system functioning . ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND REMOTELY SANSED IMAGE CORRECTION . ... Direct transmittance estimation results for 12 channels of the spectrometer CHRIS. ... We have managed to develop a direct method of estimating the discrete Normalized Atmospheric Point Spread Function (NAPSF) from available images alone, not using any external sources of information about the atmosphere. ... IRE RAS 1996-20 11 ...

. Next: Verbose Mode Up: *fit* - Fit Data Previous: Limiting Energy Channels Input . Any number of data sets (_obs.tab files), from the same or different instruments, can be fitted simultaneously by separating the root file names with semi-colons. rp90; xdata$snr . rsdc@cfa.harvard.edu . 1998-06-10

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

Quasar VLBI network observatories as co-location sites A. Ipatov, I. Gayazov, S. Smolentsev Institute of Applied Astronomy, Saint Petersburg, Russia ... supposes: 1. installation of different observational techniques at sites (co-location) 2. combined processing of different types of observations (collocation) IAA activity in space geodesy · Quasar VLBI network : ­ VLBI observations ­ GPS /GLONASS observations ­ DORIS ( ...

Interball-Tail Magnetic field measurements . Magnetic field measurements on-board the Interball Tail Probe are carried out by the FM-3I and MIF instruments. ... FM-3 M2 magnetometer failed in February 1996, FM-3 M1 and MIF are working until now. Data presented here are the combination of the data of all magnetometers. First of all FM-3 M1 data are used, if they are absent, MIF data used and if data of both magnetometer are absent, FM-3 M2 data presented. ...

This image shows where NASA's Curiosity rover aimed two different instruments to study a rock known as "Jake Matijevic." The red dots are where the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument zapped it with its laser September 21, 2012, and September24, 2012, which were the 45th and 48th sol, or martian day of operations. The circular black and white images were taken by ChemCam to look for the pits produced by the laser. ...

... It is a combination of the MPU-401AT card and SCB-55 daughterboard. The SCB-55 daughterboard (commonly referred to by the package name, SCD-15) is the same in function as the external SC-55mkII module (with a 16-bit instead of 18-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC)). ... A few were for General MIDI Sound Canvas's but I forget which since they always work on my SCC-1). ... The SCM-15AT replaces the SCC-1(B). ... Again the SCD-15(SCB-55) has the same GM/GS sound "engine" as the SC-55mkII. ...

L1 Simulation Upgrade December 6th, 2004 BaBar Collaboration Meeting SLAC Eric Torrence University of Oregon Eric Torrence 1/15 December 2004 Phase 0 (Now) DchDigis EmcDigis EmtSim trgDC L1Accept This IS the current SP6 (14.4.X) Base simulation code unchanged, but interface elements are updated (Digis, TsfLUT) Remaining changes are inside black blob Eric Torrence 2/15 December ... Done · L1DZpdTrackDigi - cellLocation and cellPhi are not currently being simulated. ...

. SXG Data Center . SDC overview . Spectrum-XG . SXG instruments models . Data archive . General astronomical utilities . Proposal Preparation . ABOUT SXG-SDC . The SXG-SDC is the interface between the Spectrum-X-Gamma satellite and astronomical community. Data from the SXG instruments will be analysed, archived and distributed by the SXG-SDC at the Space Research Institute, Moscow (IKI). Last updated: Feb, 2001 by WebMaster

... Space flight . ... Simulators . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Virtual reality-based stand for ISS crew training is used for cosmonauts pre-training preparation at different stages of training for the space flight. ... At present cosmonauts and astronauts can work both with the SM and FGB images independently and having them in mated state. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

MIR ORBITAL COMPLEX CONTENT . S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia was the Prime Contractor for MIR Orbital Station, developer of the Core Module and the Station Modules, developer and manufacturer of the major systems supporting their on-orbit operation; responsible for the integrated electrical interface of the onboard systems and integrated ground electrical tests of the Station Modules; developer and manufacturer of the Soyuz and Progress space vehicles. ... Docking Compartment . ...

... Both sets of objective transmission gratings consist of hundreds of co-aligned facets mounted to supporting structures on 4 annuli (one for each of the four co-aligned mirror pairs) to intercept the x rays exiting the HRMA. ... The two sets of transmission gratings, attached to the mounting structure are shown in Figure . ... An individual facet has 0.43-m-thick gold grating bars with 50% filling factor and 9920- period, resulting in 1.15-/mm dispersion. The HRC-S is the primary LETG readout. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Other Galaxies . ... Light of other eyes, other times: The X-rays and IR radiation making up the image have been travelling for a long time. ... The inspiration here came from a new ESA image of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, composed from two very different images. ... Our nearest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy?s brightness is caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that are contained within. ...

Past Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award recipients . ... The Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award of the ASP is given annually for recent significant observational results made possible by innovative advances in astronomical instrumentation, software, or observational infrastructure. ... Nominations . ... Letters of nomination must be received in the office of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific on or before 1 January of 2013 . ... The Award . ... Submitting Nominations . ... Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award . ...

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . ... Science . ... All Pages . ... Research of the stars with planets which pass apparent star disk (transiting exoplanets). The transit method based on a detection star brightness decrease during a passing of planet in front of its disk. Observed brightness system decries when planet pass star disk and its volume depend of the relative sizes star and planet. ...

See also: Name-based Virtual Hosts Support . As the term IP-based indicates, the server must have a different IP address for each IP-based virtual host . ... There are two ways of configuring apache to support multiple hosts. ... For each installation, use the Listen directive in the configuration file to select which IP address (or virtual host) that daemon services. e.g. Listen www.smallco.com:80 It is recommended that you use an IP address instead of a hostname (see DNS caveats ). ...