WFC3 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Wide Field Camera 3 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 8: Slitless Spectroscopy with WFC3 > 8.5 Extraction and Calibration of Spectra . ... A spectral extraction software package, called aXe , is available to extract, flat-field, wavelength- and flux-calibrate WFC3 grism spectra. ... Extraction of WFC3/IR slitless spectra depends on an accurate determination of the diffuse background light that is observed in all grism exposures. ...

... Instrument Status . Science Verification . ... CRIRES . ... SV observer shall submit their proposals using the Science Verification proposal template Proposers are asked to provide at least a short summary of the science goal, coordinates and magnitudes of GS and science target, a finding chart , the observing wavelength ID, as specified in appendix A of the UM and DIT, NDIT settings of science detectors as computed with the exposure time calculator (see below). ... with a 0.2 arcsec slit. ...

... ARC 3.5m | Instrument Summary . ... ARCES (Echelle) : the ARC Echelle spectrograph, a high resolution (R~31,500) echelle spectrograph that observes the entire wavelength range from 3200 е to 10000 in a single image on a 2048x2048 CCD. This instrument is permanently mounted at the NA1 port. ... In addition to the facility instruments, several visitor instruments have been used at the 3.5m, and some of these are available to the ARC observing community by contacting the instrument PIs: . ...

... The input dataset is an event list created by rgsframes and is modi ed by the addition of the PI column to the PIXELS table. ... EXPOSURE Required columns: FRAME int32 frame identi er TIME real64 timestamp { PIXELS Required attributes: WINDOWX0 WINDOWY0 telemetry window: origin (node coordinates) WINDOWDX WINDOWDY telemetry window: dimensions RAWY z nominal readout row in HTR mode Required columns: FRAME int32 frame identi er RAWX RAWY y int16 coordinates ENERGY int16 uncalibrated ...

... On the coude focus of 1-m (Zeiss-1000) telescope have installed two echelle spectrometers: CEGS and HELEN. Both spectrometers have been designed by Musaev F.A. and oriented for spectroscopy of relatively bright stars with different spectral resolution. ... spectral resolution R~40000, range 3200 - 10100 Angstroms - registered simultaneously with 1242x1152 CCD (see example of CCD image of Solar spectrum, obtained with 1252x1152 CCD - about 100 spectral orders are seen (151Kb jpeg file ). ...

Next: The Transmission Gratings Up: The Instruments Previous: The Instruments . ... A conventional cross-grid charge detector reads out the photo-induced charge cloud and the electronics determine an arrival time to 16s, and the position with a resolution of about 18 m or 0.37 arcsec. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Space Research, in collaboration with Lincoln Laboratories, developed the detector system and manufactured the CCDs; Lockheed-Martin integrated the instrument. ...

... Дни открытых дверей к юбилею САО РАН (12-14 апреля 2016 г.) . Международная конференция "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (20-24 июня 2016 г.) . ... Международная конференция MULTI-SPIN GALAXIES - 2016 (26-30 сентября 2016 г.) . Международная астрономическая конференция "Физика звезд: от коллапса до коллапса" (3-7 октября 2016 г.) Архив . ... Подробнее.. ... 10.02.16 . ... БТА в реальном времени . ... Цейсс-1000 в реальном времени . ... Последнее обновление: 22/03/2016 ...

The following papers summarize the characterization and technical performance of IBIS : . ... Characterization of Fabry-Perot interferometers and multi-etalon transmission profiles. ... Righini, A., Cavallini, F., Reardon, K. P., 2010, Astronomy and Astrophysics , 515 , A85, . ... The filter wheel is located between the two interferometers. ... The interferometers can be rapidly tuned, simultaneously, so to allow sequential scanning of the spectral lines of interest (see movie in IBIS Intro ). ...

Rectangular Format Cameras Princeton Instruments rectangular format cameras are ideal for many specialized imaging applications, including full color imaging, one dimensional imaging, or any application requiring high resolution along only one dimension. ... Multispectral and Color Imaging To capture images at multiple wavelengths simultaneously, one can either use multiple cameras, a single camera with multiple CCD arrays, or a single camera with a rectangular array. ...

... Design of Imaging Optics . Analyzing Optics . ... The high resolution near infrared camera (CONICA) for the first VLT unit telescope is under development. It serves as a multi-mode instrument for the wavelength region between 1.0 and 5.0 microns, providing diffraction-limited spatial resolution when combined with the adaptive optic system NAOS of the VLT (Rosset et al. ... VLT instrumentation, ALADDIN InSb detector, NIR imaging, NIR spectroscopy, re-imaging optics, IR optics . ...

Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...

... Resolution - 1.5-2.0 km . Swath - 450 km . ... Swath - 550 km . ... Resolution - 370 km . ... Spectral bands - 0.6-0.7 um; 0.8-1.1 um . ... Kondor - system for collection and transmission of data from sea and ice stations . ... Downlinking to ground stations (main centers) . ... Satellite's information system operates in both direct transmission mode and recording to on-board recorder mode with later downlink to ground station. ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor XT-Series CCD Autoguider/Imagers . ... Take new sets of calibration frames if the temperature changes significantly.(or change the set you are using or the scaling if you are reusing calibration frames). ... You can also use scaleable dark frames called thermal frames. ... However, if you wish to reuse dark frames with images of different exposure times, you must turn the dark frame into a thermal frame by subtracting the bias information. ...

SHORT DESCRIPTIONS OF INSTRUMENTS . ... Particle detector RIEP-2802 was developed and built in Russia. ... The combined Soviet-French ONCH-TBF onboard instrument had in memory modes the data only from several filter-banks in the range from 10 Hz to 16 kHz (while in the real-time telemetry modes, the measurements included 5-component wave-form data in the range 10 Hz - 1.5 kHz for 3 magnetic and 2 electric field components, or a wide-band mode in the range 10 Hz - 15 kHz, and several filter banks). ...

... Dodson, Legge et al, ApJ, 2003 Spectral Line Sources · Requirement of high brightness temperatures means no thermal emission · Masers: Galactic Extragalactic · OH, H2O · OH, H2O, SiO, CH3OH · Galactic extra-galactic HI absorption VLBI arrays · VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array) Dedicated US array of ten 25m telescopes 330 MHz ­ 90 GHz · EVN (European VLBI Network) Formal collaboration of radio telescopes in Europe, Asia and South Africa ~15 telescopes 15m to 100m 330 MHz ­ 22/43 GHz ...

Static Fourier spectrometers are often used for spectral measurements of the ionosphere emissions. There are two main advantages of Fourier spectrometers (FS) - large geometric factor and high spectral resolution; these parameters are two orders better than for grating spectral instruments. ... In scanning Fourier spectrometer optical and electric modulation of signal is used to avoid this problem, for static Fourier spectrometer there are no such ways. ...

... European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-1) was launched on 17 July 1991, and the follow mission ERS-2 (with the same sensors and an Ozone monitoring instrument added) was launched on 21 April 1995. ... ERS-2 has a fixed repeat cycle of 35 days, and follows ERS-1 tracks with one day's delay. ... Swath width is 102.5 km (telemetered), spatial resolution is about 25x25 m. The Advanced SAR (ASAR) instrument is carried by ESA's ENVISAT satellite launched on 1 March 2002. ... Swath . ... Spatial Resolution...

. english || русский . Main . Location . Telescope . Instruments . Program . Science . Publications . Images . Photos . Links . The following focal instruments are currently available at the telescope: . CCD-photometer . TFOSC -- medium and low resolution spectrometer . ( The page at TUG ) . High resolution echelle-spectrometer in coude focus . High Energy Astrophysics Department 2016 IKI RAN

... 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. ...

Shared Skies at Moore and Mt. Kent Observatories . ... Wide field photometry . ... Robotic photometry . ... Precision photometry . ... Apogee U9000 . ... Apogee U16M . ... Apogee U6 . ... Kodak KAI-08050 . Kodak KAF-09000 . ... Kodak KAF-16803 . ... Kodak KAF-1001E . ... 4096 x 4096 . ... Pixel size . 5.5 microns . ... Pixel scale . 0.318 "/pixel . 0.127 "/pixel) . 4.67 "/pixel . ... 0.0131 е/pixel . ... 0.069 е/pixel . ... 4096 е . ... Moore Roll Roof . ... Operational . ...