WFC3 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Wide Field Camera 3 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 2: WFC3 Instrument Description > 2.3 Spectral Elements . ... 2.3.1 The Filter Selection Process . ... Both WFC3 channels are equipped with a broad selection of spectral elements. ... The UVIS channel has a selectable optical filter assembly (SOFA) that contains a stack of 12 filter wheels housing a total of 48 elements: 42 full-frame filters, 5 quad filters, and 1 UV grism. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Team . ... The main goal of observations of GRB host galaxies is accumulation of statistics of their spectroscopic and photometric properties. ... The Hubble diagram for 22 GRB host galaxies with known magnitudes and redshifts (GRB 970228, GRB 970508, GRB 970828, GRB 971214, GRB 980613, GRB 980703, GRB 990123, GRB 990510, GRB 990712, GRB 9912008, GRB 991216, GRB 000131, GRB 000210, GRB 000301C, GRB 000418, GRB 000911, GRB 000926, GRB 001109, GRB 010222, GRB 010921, GRB 011121 and GRB011211). ... 600...

Displays the current status of the Dual Imaging Spectrograph (DIS) and allows you to change the configuration. Normally only the most common status is displayed and the configuration controls are hidden. ... Pushing the "Config" button displays configuration controls (each to the right of its corresponding item of status). Select TUI:Save Window Positions to remember the state of this checkbutton. ... Turret : current position of the grating turret. ... Grating : name of the current grating. ...

NCA response to NCRIS Page 1 of 2 9 December 2006 NCA response to Exposure Draft of NCRIS Strategic Roadmap The National infrastructure Roadmap. It informed the Committee for Astronomy (NCA) welcomes the support for the astronomy identified by the NCRIS committee in the Exposure Draft of the Strategic is pleased to note the extent to which the Astronomy Decadal Plan has NCRIS committee in their deliberations. ... Section 7) as one of three high-priority `Landmark' facilities1. ...

Call For Abstracts . We welcome abstract submissions for oral presentations at the workshop, Concept Development for an Upper Atmospheric Research Facility at the Arecibo Magnetic Conjugate Point in Argentina to take place in April 17 - 19, 2006 , at the Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico . ... This section of the meeting includes talks on the instruments that are required at the facility to satisfy the science requirements discussed in Part I of the meeting. ... Part I~50% meeting time . ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Output Files / Summary File specification from There will be 6 instrument details records, one for each instrument, following the file details record. ... After each instrument details record there will be n exposure records, where n is the number of exposures during the observation for that instrument. ... Number of exposures . ... Identifies the record as an Instrument Details Record . ... If the instrument was inactive then this value is zero and no exposure records...

... Science Users Information > Science Activities > Call for Public Surveys with the Arizona Radio Observatory . ... Call for Public Surveys with the Arizona Radio Observatory . ... As part of the Agreement for transferring ownership the AEM ALMA prototype antenna to the University of Arizona to install it on Kitt Peak as a telescope of the Arizona Radio Observatory (ARO), ESO will distribute to its user community a total of 3600h of observing time on the ARO telescopes over the next five years. ...

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. ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

At Arcetri a Radio Astronomy observative and instrumental group is active. ... A catalog of all known maser sources north of -30 degrees is kept updated and is made available to anyone interested. ... The group is involved in the design phase for the Atacama Large Miillimeter Array , a (sub)millimeter interferometer with a large collecting area (about 10000 m2). ... H2O Maser Catalog . ... ADLB Autocorrelation spectrometer . ... Our involvement in the Atacama Large Millimiter Array ( ALMA ) project . ...

Next: Emission-line galaxies Up: The Hamburg/SAO Survey for Previous: Data reduction . In total 217 candidates were observed during the January - June, 1995, of which 34 objects were observed with the 6m telescope, 183 objects with the Calar Alto 2.2m telescope, and 4 with both instruments. ... For 11 of the known ELGs we measure emission line ratios and make quantitative classification. ... Emission-line galaxies . ... Objects without emission lines . Absorption-line galaxies . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. October 21, 1999 . Follow The Spots . Credit: Louis Strous ( LMSAL ), SOHO - MDI Consortium, ESA , NASA . ... Just follow the sunspots . ... It shows the Sun's visible surface for most days of August 1999 so that the same sunspots appear many times as the solar rotation carries them across the face of the Sun . ... About APOD > . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 21.10.1999 . ... Credit Copyright: Louis Strous ( LMSAL ), SOHO - MDI Consortium, ESA , NASA Explanation: The Sun rotates on its axis about once every 27 days. ... Just follow the sunspots . ... It shows the Sun's visible surface for most days of August 1999 so that the same sunspots appear many times as the solar rotation carries them across the face of the Sun . ... October 1999 . ... 1999 2000 . ... Publications with keywords: Sun - solar rotation - sunspot . ...

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The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... The initial descriptions of the FITS format provided a simplified method for describing the physical coordinate values of the image pixels, but deliberately did not specify any of the detailed conventions required to convey the complexities of actual image projections. ... They were CRPIX n for the reference pixel location on pixel axis n , CRVAL n for the coordinate value at that pixel, CDELT n for the increment at that pixel in the coordinate value, and CTYPE n for the type of coordinate. ...

... Average resolution at altitude H=668 km . ... Swath width at H=668 km and inclination of beginning of swath 20.48 degrees . ... Resolution at H=668 км . ... Наименование параметра . ... 1 канале . ... Полоса обзора при H=668 км . ... 1-5 спектральной зоне, не более . ... 1 спектральной зоне . 0,48-0,52 мкм . ... 0,915-0,997 мкм . ... 1-4 канал . ... 1-4 каналов . ... Спектральные характеристики каналов (по уровню 0,5): . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

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