... It was with this spirit that Norman Oberle suggested that area amateurs should have the benefit of a large aperture (25 inches or larger) telescope with sufficient focal length for excellent visual work. ... Norm Oberle and Jim Thomas spent 2,000 hours grinding and polishing to work the mirror into an oblate spheroid. ... Norm worked with Jim Thomas in a basement workshop. ... The Richland club is situated in the Hidden Hollow camp ground, and has long held meetings in the clubhouse on the grounds. ...

XMM ­Newton CCF Release Note XMM ­ CCF ­REL­1 Effective area of the X­ray telescopes P. Gondoin October 4, 2000 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag XRT1 XAREAEF 0006 2000 ­01­13T00:00:00 ONAXISXAREAEF, VIGNETTING Cal 3.80, xmm ­ sas 20000903 1900 NO XRT2 XAREAEF 0007 2000 ­01­13T00:00:00 ONAXISXAREAEF, VIGNETTING Cal 3.80, ... 3 Scientific Impact of this Update This update has no impact on on­axis the effective area accuracy. ...

... Большинству любителей недоступны крупные телескопы типа как Алькор и Мицар,и они останавливают свой выбор на таких недорогих компактных и моблильных инструметнах как зрительные трубы и монокуляры. Самые распространенные среди них - ЗРТ-457 и МП 20х60. За три года работы с этими инструментами я выявил не мало их скрытых достоинств, впрочем как и недостатков и хочу ниже в кратце рассказать о них. ... Поговорим об оптических достоинствах трубы. Они несколько хуже, чем у монокуляра. ...

... 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. ...

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 . ...

The Planewave Instruments 20-inch (0.5-meter) f/6.8 corrected Dall-Kirkham telescope at Moore Observatory in Kentucky and its identical companion at Mt. ... The CDK20 North at Moore Observatory has been our primary platform for developing technology for remote and robotic operation in the Shared Skies program. ... g'r'z'i' filter wheel . ... Axis quad video server to send realtime video to the remote observer . ... Telescope monitor camera in the dome also on the video server . ...

... Green and blue curves - CYGAM telescope (squares - no constraints on the angle a , triangles - a <0.5 0 ); red curve - EGRET telescope. Effective area versus photon incidence angle to relative the longitudinal telescope axis (squares - no constraints on the angle a , triangles - a <0.5 0 , spectral index g= 2). ... Angular resolution for normal to the axis X incidence versus source power law spectrum index (squares- no constraints on the angle a , triangles- a <0,5 0 ). ... CYGAM (PDF, 450 Kb) . ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

Challenges in Analyzing Data from the GLAST Large Area Telescope J. Chiang (GLAST Science Support Center, UMBC/GSFC) The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard GLAST promises greater than an order of magnitude better sensitivity, a much larger field-of-view, significantly better angular resolution, and broader energy coverage than its predecessor in the gamma-ray band, EGRET. ...

... Radio astronomical tests of the engineering model of the space radio telescope (SRT) were completed in Pushchino - see Results . ... Monitoring of the development of the upgrade on-board 1.35-cm receiver (R-SRT-1.35 cm): . ... EM Engineering Model . ... OHCFS-SRT Space Radio Telescope On-board Heterodyne and Clock Frequency Synthesizer set . OHFS-SRT Space Radio Telescope On-board Hydrogen Frequency Standard . ORFS-SRT Space Radio Telescope On-board Rubidium Frequency Standard . ...

Your First Telescope . Articles | ... So, which one should I buy? ... You started out with a 60 mm refractor (probably from a department store), then you upgraded to a 6" f/8 reflector from either Criterion or Meade, and if you stuck with it long enough, you eventually bought an 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain from Celestron. ... Avoid like the plague any cheap refractor sold on the basis of its magnification. ... Which one would you buy, if you could only get one? ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... We can help students grasp the significance of Hubble's extremely keen eye, and learn a bit about angles and math in the process, with the following in-class activity. ... Looking through binoculars or telescopes allows us to magnify a small section of the sky. To measure sizes or distances in that small section, astronomers divide a degree into 60 smaller pieces called arcminutes, and further subdivide minutes into 60 smaller sections called arcseconds. ... 30 feet = . ... 36 seconds . ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

. MASTER supernova search . 2006 02 08.96 UT . Klick for full image .

... Научная панорама ? arxiv:0709.2048 Cherenkov Telescope Array . ... arxiv:0709.2048 Cherenkov Telescope Array: следующее поколение наземных гамма-обсерваторий (Cherenkov Telescope Array: The next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory) . ... Прочитать про это можно в статье, а можно на сайте проекта <A HREF=" http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/hfm/CTA/ ">CTA</A> (Cherenkov Telescope Array). http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~polar/sci_rev/168.html#arxiv/0709.2048 . ...