... 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 . ...

Nikolai N. Kolesnikov has graduated from Phys.-Chem. ... Since 1982 to 1993 he has been working in ISSP and completed the way from engineer to senior researcher. Since 1993 Dr. Kolesnikov is Chief of LPCBC . Nikolai N.Kolesnikov is successfully working in the field of the crystal growth from the melt and related investigations. ... crystal growth of II-VI compounds (ZnS, ZnSe, ZnTe, CdS, CdSe, CdTe, Cd 1-x Zn x Te) by zone melting and Bridgman technique; . ... LPCBC selected publications. ...

... 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...

... space flight . ... space physics . ... First flight mirror completes cryogenic testing . The James Webb Space Telescope will give scientists clues about the formation of the universe and the evolution of our own solar system. ... The first mirror segment that will fly on the James Webb Space Telescope, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation, has completed its first series of cryogenic temperature tests in the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . Top Management Founder of ISC Kosmotras - Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev News . ... Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev, Founder of ISC Kosmotras, Member of the Board . ... Peaceful and rational use of RS-20 ICBMs after their withdrawal from service with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has been in the main focus of Dr. Andreev s attention since early 1990s. Dr. Andreev is one of the founders of an international cooperation program and process called the Dnepr Program . ... Dnepr Program . ...

SAS 6.1 AND OM GRISM DATA PROCESSING ------------------------------------ Processing of OM grism data has changed substantially in this SAS 6.1 release. ... The results are written into the files: - p*SPCREG*.ASC a region type file depicting the positions of the zero and the extracted first order - p*SPECLI*.FIT the fits file corresponding to the extracted spectrum - p*SPECTR*.FIT contains the extracted spectrum: wavelength, net count rate, background, flux and corresponding errors. ...

Experiment COLD . ... For Soviet radio astronomy, the early 1960's was a period of choosing a new-generation radio telescope system and making decisions about its construction. ... Figure 2.4 A diagram- showing the observing modes used at the RATAN-600 radio telescope: (A) using an individual sector (two-mirror system); (B) using the south sector, together with the plane mirror (three-mirror system); (C) observations near the" zenith using the entire ring and a special conical secondary mirror (Fig. ...

... Stellar Evolution . Nucleosynthesis in Stars . The Evolution of Star Clusters . JAVA Physics Lab . Alternative Energies Class . Steve Kevan's Physics 251 Class . ... Talk on Solid State Physics of CCD detectors . Talk on Cosmological Issues . ... Digital Spectra of Stars . NETexperts E-mail List . The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu ...