... ARC 3.5m | GFP . ... Install Appropriate Filters and Edit filters.txt file . Edit filters.txt file on aiscam@finesse in /home/aiscam/config . ... It also loads the filter info and the gfp.cfg settings including the calibration file for the appropriate course z-setting . aiscam: etalon in ;load etalon into optical path . ... aiscam: fpzero -w 4044.4 -1591.47 ;set fpzero with wavelength and central z . ... aiscam: time 40 . ... aiscam: file bias ;set filename for biases, no time needed . ...

... NASA's newest Great Observatory, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) -- formally known as the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) -- launched on July 23, 1999 and represents such an advance. ... Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (HDOS), now Raytheon Optical Systems Incorporated, figured and polished the x-ray optics; Optical Coating Laboratory Incorporated (OCLI) coated the polished optics with iridium; and Eastman Kodak Company (EKC) mounted and aligned the optics and provided the optical...

... Data Reduction FAQ > A number of OmegaCAM filters show vignetting in their central regions. What are the causes for this and what are the dimensions of these features? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... A number of OmegaCAM filters are not monolithic, but consist of four segments (each covering 8 detectors) that have a central cross-shaped support structure. ... Filter . ...

... In laboratory the design and a manufacturing techniques mirror aspherical optics are developed ("fokon", ellipsoid, aspherical mirror).Such optical elements are made of widespread aluminium alloys on the standard equipment without use diamond turning. ... Using: optical blocks of not image optical devices for transitions, collimation, focus (concentration) radiations in a wide spectral range from UV to IR. Focusing and collimation of light; . ... circle aperture/ring aperture; . ... Back Forward . ...

... The Utilization of Spatial Enhancement of Landsat Images in the Delineation of Structural Elements, Red Sea Hills, NE - Sudan . ... In contrast to spectral image enhancements, spatial filters emphasize or de-emphasize image data of various spatial frequencies. ... Wherein, most of the structural elements in the area are clear and esily descernible. Subtle enhancements on the structural lineaments in the area enabled the author to produce a structural map of the area under investigation. ...

This library currently provides subroutines used to transform theoretical spectra to intermediate and broad-band photometric indices. ... Typical tasks are the response functions and transmission curves for various filters, mirrors and photomultiplier windows. ... The response is zero outside the given wavelength range. ... real . input . Wavelength in nanometres . PHOT_1P21 . ... PHOT_AIR . ... PHOT_ALUM . ... Inputs must be valid as for PHOT_FILTER, PHOT_AIR, PHOT_ALUM and PHOT_1P21. ...

... Plastic forming and welding of optical elements for laser technologies and optical telecommunications. A set of technological processes of manufacturing of optical elements with sophisticated profiles for laser technologies and optical telecommunications has been developed in the Institute of Solid State Physics . ... тАв€а to form optical surfaces with non-spherical and rather sophisticated profiles, improving essentially effectiveness of laser technologies and optical telecommunications; . ...

This WWW form allows the user simplified access to images produced by the NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). This service determines which NVSS image is desired based on a celestial position and returns either the image directly or a Web page with a link to the file. ... The NVSS Postage stamp (small FITS file) server can be used to obtain images with other geometries.) ... Web browsers use external viewers to display files like FITS images which they do not understand. ...

... 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 . ...

Supernovae 2010jl in UGC 5189A . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2010jl in UGC 5189A . ... Astronomy Magazine's Supernova SN 2010jl . ... Bad Astronomy's SN 2010 JL in weird UGC 5189 . SpaceBanter.com 2010jl post . Blogbaker's 2010jl post . Joseph Brimacombe widefield color image . ... 2010/11/04.50 . ... 2010/11/05.203 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . 2010/11/05.467 . ... mirror . ... JM Llapasset . ... 2011/01/15.160 . ... Back to Bright Supernovae - 2010 . ...

... The simple pair of formulas derived in problem (8) . ... around the z axis, , giving the above result and producing (x',y'), while z remains the same, so that in the new system z' = z. Then we rotate (x',y',z') by an angle ? around the x' axis, using the same formulas but with (y',z', ?) in place of (x,y, ?) ... Knowing its semi-major axis a, eccentricity e and mean anomaly M, one can derive its true anomaly f (using appropriate formulas, not given in #12a) and from it the radial distance r . ...

Next: *.imh and *.qp Extensions Up: IRAF/PROS Files Previous: IRAF Image Arrays . The x-ray data are stored in QPOE files (Quick Position-Ordered Events, *.qp ) rather than image arrays. ... Note that, unlike IRAF images, QPOE files have no associated header file, and are always stored in the current directory, unless explicitly specified otherwise. Non-PROS IRAF tasks can also access QPOE data files in place of image arrays. ... rp110590.qp[pi=2:30] . ... The ROSAT PSPC qp file images are . ...

Infrared Detector Array Links . ... Control Software Links . Optics Links . Micro-Optics Links . ... Optical Materials Databases . ... Atmospheric Database Links . Linux Links . ... Rockwell Science Center home page. ... Santa Barbara Research Center home page. ... CCD-World home page. ... SDSU home page. ... EPICS home page. ... Optics Society of America . ... Linux on Laptops ( local site and US home page ). ... Instrumentation Links * Gemini Project Links * Other IR Instruments ...

j8s903011_crc.fits / TARGET INFORMATION / TARGET OFFSETS (POSTARGS) EXPTIME = 1.4400000E+03 / exposure duration (seconds)--calculated TEXPTIME= 1.4400000E+03 / FILTER1 = 'F555W ' / element selected from filter wheel 1 FILTER2 = 'CLEAR2L ' / element selected from filter wheel 2 DATE-OBS= '2003-11-13' / UT date of start of observation (yyyy-mm-dd)

... Solar Space Experiments in LPI . ... The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar EUV Coronagraph (SEC), based on the Ritchey-Chretien scheme, to observe the inner and outer solar corona from 0.2 to 4 solar radii in spectral band 290-320 A . ... 2 arc. sec./pix . ... Backside-CCD 2048*2048 pix...

... Imaging of the core of the OMC-1 region using NICMOS camera 2 through the F212N and F215N filters shows a wide variety of interesting structure on scales of 0.2" at a very high dynamic range (Stolovy et al. ... The application of image restoration techniques, including multi-channel variants of the Richardson-Lucy technique, offers the chance to enhance structure on the finest scales and also to suppress the prominent and richly structured point-spread functions of the many bright stars in the...

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Engineers of SSAU laboratory of additive technologies started to carry out experiments in the field of 3D-printing of metal parts, components and assemblies. The research of Samara scientists will allow producing highly complex and non-standard elements of spatial forms required for design and creation of advanced aviation and space technology. ... SSAU Laboratory of Additive Technologies is established in 2011. ... e-mail: ssau@ssau.ru . ...

RTT150 . ... One of the image, obtained in the May, 2003, with Andor DW436 CCD. Cluster 1541+6626, filter R, exposure 15 minutes, the resolution is 1", limiting star magnitude is 23m, the field of view is 8' x 8'. At the left: image of cluster 0720+7132 (z=0.268) obtained in the beginning of November, 2002 with RTT-150 and AP-47P CCD. 25 minutes exposure in R. The resolution is 0.7" (angular size of the image element - 0.23"), limiting stellar magnitude is 23.5-24. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...