... The GHRS Instrument Handbook is the single most useful reference about the GHRS except for this data handbook; it describes instrument operating modes as well as observing strategies. ... GHRS Instrument Handbook Versions . ... The Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph: In-Orbit Performance," 1995, PASP , 107, 871. ... Ebbets, D.C., J.C. Brandt, and the HRS Investigation Definition Team, "Ultraviolet High-Resolution Spectroscopy from the Space Telescope," 1983, PASP , 95, 543-549. ...

These policies are consulted whenever there are questions or concerns for closing the enclosure due to hazardous conditions or situations. telescope operations will be suspended whenever conditions pose a risk to facilities or personnel; . the Chief Telescope Engineer has full responsibility and sole authority to make this decision. ... Policy: The Chief Telescope Engineer has full responsibility and sole authority to suspend operations for the reasons described in the previous policy. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > Instrumentation Development . ... Science Users Information . ... La Silla Paranal Observatory . ... Paranal Instrumentation . Decommissioned Instruments . ... VLT/VLTI Science Verification . ... ESO exercises strict control over the interfaces between the VLT observatory and its instruments. ... The instruments below are now maintained (and documented on the ESO web) by the Directorate of Operations/La Silla Paranal Observatory: . ...

... Up: Future Instruments and Telescopes, Tools . ... UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 . ... These Tcl/Tk-based tools maintain and interact with a relational database of instrument characteristics. ... The toolkit has greatly reduced the amount of effort required from many UCO/Lick technicians, and has set new standards for quality and performance of the resulting instruments. ... This same metaphor is also being applied to instruments built for Lick Observatory. ...

... GSAOI Home . Instrument . ... Other Links . NIR Camera Links . NIR IFU Spectrograph Links . Other NIR Spectrograph Links . NIR Instruments by Observatories . NIR Survey Links . Mid-Infrared Instrument Links . ... NIRI on Gemini . ... ISAAC on the VLT . ... Omega-Prime from MPIA, Heidelberg . ... IRCAM3 on UKIRT (InSb) and here . UFTI for UKIRT ( pictures ; UKIRT links here; ; and here ) . ... Gemini instrumentation . ... UKIRT instrumentation ( Future Instruments ) . ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... honing the skills of performing the tasks of operating the orbital (suborbital) spaceship in a normal autonomous flight and in case of occurrence of off-optimum situations; . ... preparing for conducting visual observations, photographing and video filming envisaged by the flight program; . ... preparing the astronaut's body to the effect of space flight factors, honing the skills of operating the spaceborne medical facilities, rendering self and mutual aid; . ...

... One of the instruments, the Troughton equatorial telescope, is maintained at constant temperature and relative humidity, to reduce the rate of deterioration. ... 3.1 Troughton Equatorial Telescope . Figure 1 shows the equatorial telescope constructed by J E Troughton of London and which was erected in the west dome of Armagh Observatory in 1795. ... Troughton, J. E.: c.1790, Instructions for Adjusting the Troughton Equatorial Telescope, Armagh Observatory Archives , M17.2, 3pp. ...

The Arcetri Infrared Instrumental Group is involved in design, building and testing the Spectrograph (SPG) of the instrument. The cold spectroraph of AMBER (indicated by the acronym SPG in AMBER documentation), besides operating the spectral dispersion of incoming beams, includes the following functions: . Formation of an image of the fiber outputs at cryogenic temperature and filtering of thermal radiation from this image by means of suitable spatial filters . ...

OptInt PmWiki . MROI / . ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Design Documentation . ... MROI DL Production SW Contract . ... Preliminary Design Review . Software Design Documentation . ... MROI Fast Tip-Tilt Contract . ... Design Documents . ... MROI FT SW Architecture . ... Science Instrument Downselect . ... MROI DL Design Contract Private Material . ... Workpackage Status 2006/10/12 . ... Due Date . ... Due 2006/07/31 . 70% done . ... Preliminary design for downselected concept . ...

XmTel uses the XPA interface for extensible connection to the operating system and scripting. ... Support for several commercial telescopes and controllers under Linux .. ... Software Bisque Paramount ME (requires RTS2 library) . ... In the current version of XmTel .. ... Offers command line and scripted operation using XPA . ... Version 7 includes the XPA server, telescope drivers, a client, utility software, and a standalone option that does not use XPA. ... Previous versions and support for INDI . ...

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At Arecibo we have a variety of optical instruments that we use to study terrestrial airglow emissions. ... As a complement to the airglow instrumentation we also maintain a set of optical instruments, called lidars, used for "active" remote sensing of the atmosphere. That is, we generate our own source signal using lasers and measure the characteristics of the light scattered back from the atmosphere. ... An operations manual for the Optical Laboratories is currently under major revision. ...

Next: Summary of reduction Up: Echelle Reduction Previous: Saving the Data . In the present version we will be concerned with the standard configuration of CASPEC, the Cassegrain Echelle Spectrograph which is in operation at the Cassegrain focus of the ESO 3.6 m telescope. ... In its standard configuration CASPEC uses a a 31.6 lines/mm echelle grating together with a 300 lines/mm grating cross disperser. ... The table shows the change in resolution with the order number. Table: Resolution . ...

BOKZ Star Instrument Family In-orbit processing results The operating star trackers ­ BOKZ and BOKZ-M ­ can be considered prototypes for the instruments should which provide for controlling s/c angular motion parameters in nominal operation conditions without any support by other systems of the s/c housekeeping system. ... There are bright natural objects (the Sun, the Earth and the Moon) within the instrument's field of view. ...

Status of the EGSE updating with SCOS 2000 Nicola La Palombara INAF ­ IASF Milano XMM ­ EPIC Operation Meeting Mallorca, 29 March 2011 Status of the EGSE updating with SCOS 2000 Project overview Two on-ground EPIC Flight Spare instruments: 1 MOS camera at the Leicester University (UK) 1 PN camera at the MPE Panter facility of Munich (D) Both instruments are operated through the same Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) which was used for AIV tests before satellite integration. ...

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): . ...

... Instrument Description . Software: Version 4.0 . Version 3.0:Complete Documentation . ... ИОНОЗОНД ПАРУС, разработанный в ИЗМИРАН, предназначен для диагностики ионосферы и оперативного прогноза КВ связи. ... Общая структура ИОНОЗОНДА ПАРУС, Технические Характеристики , Конструктивные параметры на настоящий момент соответствуют модификации Комплекса: ВЕРСИЯ 3.0 . ... Там же находится полное описание Комплекса ИОНОЗОНД ПАРУС: ВЕРСИЯ 3.0 . ... 2004 IONOSONDE PARUS ...

Next: The Focal Plane Instruments Up: No Title Previous: The X-ray Optics . CXO has two focal plane instruments - the High-Resolution Camera (HRC) and the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). Each of these instruments, in turn, has two detectors, one optimized for direct imaging of x rays that pass through the optics and the other optimized for imaging x rays that are dispersed by the objective transmission gratings when the latter are commanded into place directly behind the HRMA. ...

... For the XRBs which are highly variable the concurrent presence of the RXTE/ASM that continuously measures their X-ray spectral states invites a new and innovative program to harness the available information to facilitate detailed studies of individual systems as well as comparative studies between classes of systems. ... This will enable them to quickly decide which data are worth putting in effort to extract and further analyze. ...