WFC3 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Wide Field Camera 3 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 2: WFC3 Instrument Description > 2.1 Optical Design and Detectors . ... Optical Design and Detectors . ... WFC3 features two independent imaging cameras: the UV/Visible channel ( UVIS ) and the near-infrared channel ( IR ). ... On-axis light coming from the HST optical telescope assembly (OTA) is intercepted by the flat 45 ° WFC3 pick-off mirror (POM) and is directed into the instrument. ...

NIFS is designed to be a fast-tracked, low-cost, near-infrared, integral-field spectrograph for use on Gemini North with the facility adaptive optics system, ALTAIR . ... By adopting a largely fixed-format design: A 3.0" 3.0" "stair-case" integral field unit (IFU) will feed a near-infrared spectrograph with five fixed-angle gratings mounted on a single grating wheel. ... The 29 field mirrors direct the beams into the spectrograph so that their pupils all coincide on the grating at bottom-left. ...

The LIDAR Instrument Information . The LIDAR was designed in a bistatic scheme with a separate transmitter and two receiver channels. ... The total mass of the instrument is only 940 grams (about 2 pounds) and a total volume is 950 cubic centimeters in both assemblies. ... Engineers designed the LIDAR to operate in the temperature range from -100 to 50 degrees Celsius (-148 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit) under lower pressure, near one millibar. ... One of the receiver channels has polarizer. ...

SPICE system is a data system built by Navigation Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) , acting under the directions of NASA's Office of Space Science, to assist scientists in planning and interpreting scientific observations from space borne instruments. ... Scientists in many countries may be counted as SPICE customers. In addition to providing SPICE technology to NASA and international space missions the NAIF Group serves as the Ancillary Data Node of NASA's Planetary Data System . ...

Home About Meade Product Information Dealer Locator Customer Support Investor Relations Dealer Support Employment Opportunities Site Map . Meade Instruments Corporation . ... The Autostar/LX200 Command Set . ... The LX200 Command Set may be used to write custom software for remote operation of an LX200 telescope with a personal computer. ... The name Meade and the Meade logo may be used only with permission from Meade Instruments Corporation. ... Autostar Downloads . ... product information | ...

The ESO Very Large Telescope consists of an array of four 8-meter telescopes which can work independently or in combined mode. ... In such a mount the telescope tube moves around a horizontal axis called elevation axis. ... The telescope tube itself consists of a steel structure supporting at the bottom the primary mirror (M1) in its cell, and at the top the M2 Unit by means of metallic beams called "spiders". ... The VLT can operate in either Cassegrain, Nasmyth or Coud focus. ...

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. ...

... NASA SPACECRAFT FINDS NEW EVIDENCE FOR WATER ICE ON MERCURY . ... The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick," said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings. ... Water ice concentrations are derived from the hydrogen measurements. ...

Next: NEWFIRM Software--System Integration Using OPC . Up: Control System . ... 314 Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII, eds. F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen, & D. Egret (San Francisco: ASP), 732 . ... The software written for WFCAM includes a camera control and acquisition system, a survey definition system and instrument control systems. ... The Ultracam camera control system was developed at the UKATC as part of the Ultracam high speed photometry system for the University of Sheffield. ...

General Information (These links are currently under revision) . ... NIC-FPS - Near Infrared Camera/Fabry-Perot Spectrometer (coming 2004) . ... Photos of Current ARC Instruments . ... These documents are provided to give users the information needed regarding instrument design, performance and operation to plan and carry out observations. While every effort is made to keep information on this site current, instrument performance does vary continuously with time and environmental conditions. ...

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

... The UK has a very vibrant solar system science community highly regarded internationally. ... The PPARC Introductory and Advanced Courses in Solar System Plasmas has, since the1980s, played an important part in the early training of solar, heliospheric, magnetospheric and ionospheric physicists. ... We therefore seek support to provide the 2007 Introductory Solar System Plasmas School, which will provide valuable training for the next generation of solar system scientists . ...

... The TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments developed by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON on January 30, 2009. The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

Next: CONICA: The high resolution Up: VLT Status and Instruments Previous: VLT First Light . ... Infrared instruments for the VLT . Instrument Summary . ... The already approved infrared instruments for the VLT are: . ... CONICA: Coude Near Infrared Camera (P.I. R. Lenzen, MPIA, Heidelberg) - an historical name as this instrument will be used for diffraction limited 1-5 m imaging, polarimetry and spectroscopy with the NAOS, Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System on UT1 (P.I. G. Rousset, ONERA ). ...

... The task clearly needs to know the direction in space of the focal axis of the relevant instrument at the time of the observation of interest. ... In esky2det I have chosen to break the necessary information up into 3 pieces: the name of the instrument, the date-time of the observation and the spacecraft pointing direction (attitude) at this time. ... calinfostyle = `srcset': the information is sought from INSTRUME and DATE-OBS keywords in the header of the source list specified by inset . ...

... Provide a supportive learning environment for your members . ... How the Night Sky Network can help . ... Consider starting Special Interest Groups (SIG) for members who would like to learn more about astronomy (or sharing astronomy with the public), the night sky, and/or operating a telescope -- at the introductory level. ... Members can use the Night Sky Network Toolkits & Videos, Sharing the Universe Videos, and other Night Sky Network resources as the basis for each astronomy-learning SIG...

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Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The incoherent scatter method gives an opportunity to weasure and diagnose, in a most comprehensive fasion, ionospheric plasma parameters using ground-based instruments. This method uses powerful USW or SHF radars to provide information about the ionospheric vertical structure and dynamics. ...

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SXG Data Center . ... SXG instruments models . Data archive . ... SXG Scientific Data Output Modelling . The task of SPECTRUM-XG Scientific Data Output Modelling is multifold: Utilization of experiment data output computer simulations in pre-flight calibration of mission instruments. ... Utilization of computer simulations in the data analysis software development. The prototype of SXG X-model project is being realized at IKI. ...