... Imaging spectrometer for atmosphere and ionosphere spectral investigation consist the static Michelson interferometer and CCD camera. The prototype of the onboard CCD camera for the spectrometer used the Toshiba 2048 pixels CCD linear array (TCD 1201D) with FPGA-based controller. The controller is building on ACTEL A1020A field programmable gates array with maximum data rate 40 MHz and can be used with linear and area array CCD. ... Toshiba CCD Linear Image Sensor Data Book, 1997. ...

... March 25, 2006: Version 3.0.0 New control panel with an observing queue and a log Pointing to apparent position including proper motion precession and nutation to epoch of ... declination axis to polar axis non-orthogonality optical axis skew altitude- and azimuth-dependent mechanical effects encoder reference Control of telescope hardware August 20, 2006 Version 3.0.4 Modifications from Dan Azari adding features suported by the RC Optical Systems ...

... Fasti is a controller architecture originally developed for fast infrared astronomical array detectors, and intended to be powerful and extendible. ... 2002), Foppiani et al. 2002)). ... The parallel input interface (now a commercial board). ... Esposito, S., Riccardi, A., Storm, J., Accardo, M., Baffa, C., Biliotti, V., Foppiani, I., Puglisi, A., Ragazzoni, R., Ranfagni, P., Stefanini, P., Salinari, P., Seifert, W., Storm, J. 2002, SPIE Conference AS06, Wizinowich, P. L. Ed., in press . ...

... This relieves the rest of the computer from knowing how to use the drive, since the controllers for different types of disks can be made to use the same interface towards the rest of the computer. ... Usually the number of sectors is the same for all tracks, but some hard disks put more sectors in outer tracks (all sectors are of the same physical size, so more of them fit in the longer outer tracks). ... For example, a hard disk might have 8 heads, 2048 tracks, and 35 sectors per track . ...

... BOM2 and the basic block of solar limbograph including pointing and control systems ? ... Fine tracking platform (FTP) for Sun tracking by the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... Tracking system frequency ? ... Controller of the control system and solar fine tracking of the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... The basic relative construction of the elements and instrumental blocks of the "Astrometria" space experiment is shown on the block diagram of units within the complex of SL-200 solar...

... Pluto: The Frozen Planet . ... This portrait of Pluto and its companion Charon was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994. ... Lunar Close Up . ... Late last month, NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft moved in for a closer look at the Moon. ... Several new Hubble Space Telescope pictures of stars surrounded by disks were released earlier this week. ... This burst was first detected only two weeks ago and cataloged as one of the most powerful GRBs ever. ... The Solar Wind Emerges . ...