The Optical Solar Sensor (OSD) has been designed to determine the direction towards the center of the Sun's visible disc. The direction to the Sun is computed in the instrument coordinate system relative to the pixels' position on the linear CCDs illuminated with the light passed through the incoming coding mask. The OSD coding mask has three groups of slits with three slits in each group. This mask configuration provides for reliability increase as well as for the required accuracy. ...

Princeton Instruments was incorporated in 1981 and has been building low light systems for its entire history. ... Princeton Instruments uses the latest in computer aided design to engineer the highest performance camera systems possible. ... We work with every major manufacturer of CCD arrays and image intensifiers in the world. ... From early in the company history, Princeton Instruments has offered complete detection systems for many different types of applications. ... Princeton Instruments, Inc. ...

FGS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Fine Guidance Sensor Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 2: FGS Instrument Design > 2.1 The Optical Train . ... Light from the HST Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA) is intercepted by a plane pickoff mirror in front of the HST focal plane and directed into the FGS. The beam is collimated and compressed (by a factor of ~60) by an aspheric collimating mirror, and guided to the optical elements of the Star Selector A (SSA) servo assembly. ...

... Archives . ... When it comes to survey, the first thing comes in my mind is the census packet although I only saw it once (an easy way to disguise my age but this is true) but the questionaire layouts are so carefully and extensively done so as to give me a strong impression. Such survey is designed prior to collecting data so that after collection, data can be analyzed according to statistical methodology suitable to the design of the survey. ... Chandra Blog . ... SAMSI AstroStat Prog. ...

... Taken from the NASA/JPL information summary "Our Solar System at a Glance". The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) automated spacecraft for solar system exploration come in many shapes and sizes. ... Electrical power is required to operate the spacecraft instruments and systems. ... Between 1959 and 1971, NASA spacecraft were dispatched to study the Moon and the solar environment; they also scanned the inner planets other than Earth -- Mercury , Venus and Mars . ...

Next: The OPUS Pipeline Toolkits . ... Table of Contents - Index - PS reprint - PDF reprint . ... OPUS is both a generic event-driven pipeline environment and a set of applications designed to process the spacecraft telemetry at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. This paper describes those OPUS applications which process the telemetry, validate the integrity of the information, and produce standard FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) data files for further analysis. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

Slithead identification (which slithead is installed?) will be sensed and reported by the on-board spectrograph computer. ... Observer's software to handle spectrographic observations will be written by JHU and installed on the Fermilab supplied observatory workstation. ... UW will be responsible for the slithead latch-down control. ... Database computer at APO: The observer's software will query the observatory database for information on the currently installed fiber cartridge. ...

... The choice of the spectrograph design (Fig.2) is determined by the quantity R, the overall dimensions of the PF cage and the restrictions on the rigidity of the structure of the device. ... As the camera's objective a fast 4-lens aplanat is used having a focal distance F cam =140 mm and a relative aperture of 1:1.8, the resolution at the centre is no less than 80 gr/mm, that over the field at a distance of 3 mm from the edge along the frame ( ) diagonal is 35 gr/mm. ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

LOFAR in Australia ­ A Brief Engineering Perspective By Dr Peter J Hall, CSIRO SKA Program Leader 11 October, 2002 Background LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) is a proposed radio telescope designed to operate in the approximate frequency range 30 - 200 MHz. ... In both cases, the instruments would be built and operated by intern ational consortia; Australia is a founder member of the 11 -member SKA consortium and may join the USA and Europe in the LOFAR endeavour. ...

... Space flight . ... Simulators . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Virtual reality-based stand for ISS crew training is used for cosmonauts pre-training preparation at different stages of training for the space flight. ... At present cosmonauts and astronauts can work both with the SM and FGB images independently and having them in mated state. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

... COMPUTER SIMULATION OF RADIOWAVE MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECTS IN IONOSPHERE USING MONTE-CARLO METHOD . ... Distribution of reflected radiation on the ground is computed. ... Such influence can be remarkable if the scattering is multiple, i.e. the optical thickness for the scattering process is considerably greater than a unit. ... Radiation energy transfer in the slab is modeled by distribution of some particles carring small portions of radiation energy. ... The isotropic plasma approximation is...

... An Orion of a Different Color . ... It is a familiar object though, the grand stellar nursery known as the Orion Nebula . But the striking picture combines images taken through three separate filters, each designed to record different emission lines - light from Sulfur, Oxygen, and Hydrogen atoms glowing in the tenuous nebular gas. At such low densities , Sulfur and Hydrogen atoms emit red colors while Oxygen glows green. ... Publications with keywords: Orion Nebula . ... The Heart Of Orion . ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

USA Solar Mission . Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . The Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) was designed to provide coordinated observations of solar activity, in particular solar flares, during a period of maximum solar activity. ... Complementary studies were made as part of the SMM guest investigator program, and coordinated in situ measurements of flare particle emissions were made from the ISEE 3 spacecraft. The spacecraft was launched on February 14, 1980. ...

... The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. ... Information on the NTP architecture, protocol and algorithms can be found in the Further Information and Bibliography page. The Building and Installing the Distribution page presents an overview of the procedures for compiling the distribution and installing it on a typical client or server. ...

Simulations for ALMA: Discussion points Robert Laing European Instrument Scientist Simulations for ALMA IRAM, Sept 8 -11 2008 Issues for the user What simulations are needed to help (inexperienced) users? ... What can we do to promote collaboration ALMA 3 Robert Laing European Instrument Scientist Simulations for ALMA Technical Issues Voltage patterns Critical for I and polarization Start with EM simulations; then use measurements Can we do better than MEM / multiscale clean? ...

... This class is designed to be an up to date summary of the last 10-20 years of observations relevant to Cosmology. ... Theory today is bombarded by a vast array of observational data but there remains no clear and preferred model for the origin and evolution of structure in the Universe. ... The inflationary paradigm and the nature of the Dark Matter - Inflation solves a lot of problems that are inherent in the standard Big Bang Model. ... Kinds of Dark Matter and Observational Constraints . ...

... srcinfov strra=<ra> strdec=<dec> apos=<apos> withsrccoord=true|false . ... srcinfov computes for each instrument the position of a given celestial source in the field of view (in TELCOORD coordinates). Input is the satellite attitude in terms of Right Ascension/Declination of the star tracker viewing direction and astronomical position angle [deg]. ...