Summary of SPHERE performance at NIH Ralf Siebenmorgen (PS) and Markus Kasper (PM) SPHERE performs in the NIH similar to what was achieved in Grenoble. ... IRDIS The IR and V filters are well mounted and the positioning accuracy is within a 1% pixel tolerance. ... The IRDIS detectors have a read-out noise 9.4 e-, a gain of 2e-/ADU and the dark current is <0.5e-/pixel/s. The instrumental background is still high. ... Centering of the pupil is achieved at an accuracy of 0.1% of the pupil diameter. ...

... 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 . ...

... The <EM> element provides typographic emphasis, typically italics. ... CITE . The <CITE> element specifies a citation. Sections tagged with the CITE element are typically rendered in italics. ... The <CODE> element indicates an example of code; typically rendered in a mono-spaced font. ... The <KBD> element indicates text typed (keyboarded) by the user. ... The <VAR> element indicates a variable name, and might typically be used in an instruction manual. ... New in 3.0 . ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... Find.Chart . ... GSC 04516-02121 . ... The new variable star 2MASS J00511854+5022580 (indicated as V in the finding chart) is inside the field of view of the known variable star V364 Cas. ... The new variable star GSC 04516-02121 (indicated as V in the finding chart) is inside the field of view of the known variable star V405 Cep. ... The variable star 2MASS GSC 00770-00523 (indicated as V2 in the finding chart) is inside the field of view of the known variable star AV CMi. ...

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)

... The collecting area is increased by nesting concentric mirror pairs, all having the same focal length. ... Figure shows the largest optical element being ground at HDOS. ... X-ray testing demonstrated that the CXO mirrors are indeed the largest high-resolution X-ray optics ever made; the nominal effective area (based on the ground calibrations) is shown as a function of energy in the left panel of Figure , along with those of their Einstein and ROSAT predecessors. ...

... To overcome this limitation we propose Cryogenic Phase Locking Loop (CPLL).The CPLL has been developed for phase locking of a Flux-Flow Oscillator (FFO) in the SIR. ... The CPLL operating frequency has been increased from 400 MHz up to 4 GHz to decrease a loop filter delay to 0.5 ns. ... We have realized an integrating loop filter for the CPLL. ... Phase noise of the FFO phase-locked with: "1" ­RT PLL; "2" ­ CPLL without integrating loop filter; "3" - CPLL with integrating loop filter. ...

... 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. ...

Classroom Activity: Making a Rainbow . ... When white light from the Sun or a light bulb passes through a prism, the light splits into its component wavelengths. ... Red, blue, green colored filters - if possible, cut 1x4-inch pieces of the filters for each student . ... Many students have the misconception that filters somehow dye the light a certain color. ... Younger students can draw the rainbow and make up a mnemonic for remembering the order of the colors (such as, ROY G. BIV). ...

Chair of solid state physics . ... The most important concepts of the modern crystallography, crystal symmetry and methods of crystal structure determination are considered. ... The main experimental aims of X-ray diffraction study of classic crystal structure and real structure are analyzed. ... Crystal lattice. ... The main diffraction schemes in representation of a reciprocal lattice: Laue method, powder diffraction method, oscillation method, X-ray diffraction on powder sample and single crystal. ...

Image Quality and Stability Criteria ­ Transmissive Systems Alex Rea adr34@cam.ac.uk Cavendish Lab oratory, University of Cambridge FTT Technical Meeting Friday 21st May 2010 Alex Rea (Cavendish Labs, Cambridge) Transmissive Systems 21st May 2010 1 / 19 Table Expansion If everything is fixed to the table, and the table expands uniformly, then everything moves radially away from the centre of expansion. ... Like the OAP system, it's the stability that is forcing our hand. ...

Example 2: Figure 8 (90 Kbytes) shows an image of M31. While this is not a particularly spectacular image of M31 it is nevertheless unique as it was taken in a suburban backyard using a Lynxx CCD camera. The exposure is unfiltered. ... The image scale in this system is 41 arcseconds per pixel which yields a total field size of 2.2 x 1.9 square degrees. At this pixel resolution M32 blends into the light of M31, although NGC 205 (marked with a red arrow) is plainly visible. ... Page 6 . ...

... Telescopes . ... Diameter of circular antenna . ... Number of antenna elements . ... Geometrical area . ... Effective area of full circle . ... Wavelength range . ... Frequency range . ... 2 arcsec . ... Flux density limit . ... Absolute brightness temperature limit . 0.050 mK . ...

hstpolsim -- Produce simulated polarization input data frames for HST instruments . ... inint = "" [name] . ... Name of the HST instrument for which simulated polarization images are to be produced. ... Name of the instrument specific polarizing filter for simulated images (ignored for SPECIAL instrument). filtname = "" [name] . Name of the instrument specific colour filter for simulated images. ... The header parameter FILTER provides the filter name and POLANG the polarizer angle. ...

... The filter "Lighting Effects" is a freebie that came with this program, and in my opinion is practically worth the whole purchase price all by itself. ... You can select different light sources, and combine them with texture channels to warp your image. ... Depending on how you use it, pure white is the highest point on the image, and black the lowest. ... You can adjust the brightness and spread here, or choose other types of lighting. ... Use these if your image is turning out too dark or light. ...

Your First Telescope . Articles | ... Eyepieces . ... You don't really NEED more than 3 or 4 carefully chosen eyepieces, a barlow, and perhaps a filter or two, but most of us eventually wind up with collections, some of them quite impressive. Eyepieces: The first accessory a newcomer buys is usually a new eyepiece. ... The Kellner is a three element design that shows an acceptable 40-45 degree FOV, and good correction of spherical and chromatic aberration. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... Elements for which there are no lines in the spectral range are omitted. elem = StrArr(93) elem ( 1: 2) = [ 'H ', 'He' ] elem ( 3:10) = [ 'Be', 'Li', 'B ', 'C ', 'N ', 'O ', 'F ', 'Ne' ] elem (11:18) = [ 'Na', 'Mg', 'Al', 'Si', 'P ', 'S ', 'Cl', 'A ' ] elem (19:20) = [ 'K ', 'Ca' ] elem (31:36) = [ 'Ga', 'Ge', 'As', 'Se', 'Br', 'Kr' ] elem (21:30) = [ 'Sc', 'Ti', 'V ', 'Cr', 'Mn', 'Fe', 'Co', 'Ni', 'Cu', 'Zn' ] ...

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. ...

Computer Ephemeris for 2014 from DE200/LE200. ... Sidereal Time. ... Apparent equatorial positions. Ecliptical positions. ... Chebyshev polinomial approximation of positions. ... Position and velocity. ... Dynamical time. Sidereal time. ... Osculating elements of planetary orbits. Planetary configurations (by time). ... Fundamental ephemeris. ... Ephemeris for physical observations. ... Stars. ... All comments on Computer Ephemeris please direct to the author: charlie@mail.univ.kiev.ua ...

MAKING THE PROFILES . First of all you are expected to load a FITS file ("FILE"-"LOAD"). ... By pressing the middle button you copy the profile from the first profile window to the second one. ... An example: first integral can correspond to the profile of active region and second integral can correspond to the profile of quiet chromospheric region. ... The second profile (which is subtracted from the first one) you extract after clicking on "SUBTRACT"-"MARK QUIET PROFILE" and marking the region. ...