GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

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Next: Column label: TELESCOP Up: File Formats Required Previous: MJD --- column . Data for all the telescopes at an observatory can be stored in a single MIDAS table file, called (by default) esotel.tbl. A standard path needs to be established for this file. ... Each observatory file should contain a C*72 descriptor OBSERVATORY that contains the name of the observatory, preferably as it is given in [ 6 ]. ... Each column label can be a standard FITS keyword, if an appropriate one is available. ...

DIGITAL WDC EXCHANGE FORMAT . FOR OBSERVATORY 1.0 MINUTE VALUES 1. ... DATA-1 .. DATA-60 are 1-minute values of the given element for that hour. ... Typically, digital 1-minute values received by WDCs from organizations operating automatic magnetic observatory instruments are averages of more frequendy sampled values, e.g. 10-second point samples. ... If the method used to obtain 1-minute average values is important to a user, the WDC will assist in determining the exact procedure applied. ...

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... Spacecraft . 29b. Satellites looking down . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . ... The Hubble orbiting telescope. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... So fruitful was this observation that a second "deep field" exposure of such length, near the southern pole of the heavens, was recently conducted. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

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... The choice of the spectrograph design (Fig.2) is determined by the quantity R, the overall dimensions of the PF cage and the restrictions on the rigidity of the structure of the device. ... As the camera's objective a fast 4-lens aplanat is used having a focal distance F cam =140 mm and a relative aperture of 1:1.8, the resolution at the centre is no less than 80 gr/mm, that over the field at a distance of 3 mm from the edge along the frame ( ) diagonal is 35 gr/mm. ...

... What was needed was a complementary instrument consisting of an array of detectors designed to map the clouds using the signals emitted by the molecules in the gas. Such a facility, offering simultaneous spectroscopy and imaging, is currently being commissioned on the JCMT. ... ACSIS was built by the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in Penticton, Canada, and the UKATC. ... HARP/ACSIS can map molecular gas in molecular clouds throughout the Universe rapidly and with great sensitivity. ...

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