... Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17 > Chapter 4: Imaging > 4.1 Filters and Optical Elements . 4.1 Filters and Optical Elements . ... 4.1.2 Out-of-Band Leaks in NICMOS Filters . ... Each camera has 20 filter positions on a single filter wheel: 19 filters and one blank. As a result, not all filters are available in all cameras. ... A trailing letter identifies the filter width, with ? ... Table 4.1: NIC 1 Filters. ... S III] continuum . ...

... It lists the coefficients defining the colour transformations, the zero points for the different filters and the aperture radii used in the photometric calibration analysis. ... The AB system zero point of the filter FilterID is stored in the keyword ABM0 FilterID , e.g. the AB zero point of the the U-filter is stored in ABM0U. The flux conversion factor derived from White Dwarfs of the filter FilterID is stored in the keyword FCF FilterID . ... description . ... AB Flux conversion factor of U . ...

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. ...

... Instruments are more complicated than star catalogs, but a MIDAS table file is still useful for holding the description of an instrument. ... The main sub-table contains information about the passbands used, and the second sub-table describes the detector(s). ... Basic data for an instrument file include the passbands used (and any coding that is used to represent them in the data); the detectors used, and their properties; and general information about temperature control and optical cleanliness. ...

... 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. ...

... Second, the observatory can control the configuration, test data analysis procedures, and provide calibration solutions with the help of instrument models. This paper presents the VLT object-oriented framework for the development of ETCs (Exposure Time Calculators) and data simulators. ... Instrument simulations are being developed for the purpose of predictive calibration, instrument configuration control, and evaluation of data analysis procedures. ...

Magnetic field measurements onboard the Interball Tail spacecraft are carried out by the FM-3I instrument which consists of two flux-gate magnetometers covering two different ranges: [-200, +200] nT and [-1000, +1000] nT. Besides scientific goals, the FM-3I experiment data is used to perform the attitude control of the Interball Tail spacecraft. ... August 22, 1995 . ... October 18, 1995 . Top of the page . ... Back to the Interball Home Page . ...

TUI supports the following offsets: . Object Arc offset by a given amount on the sky (i.e. along the arc of a great circle). ... Arc offsets are useful for moving a different portion of your object or a different nearby object onto the boresight . ... Object Arc XY this is identical to an Object offset except that it has been rotated to align along the instrument x-y axes. ... This is just like the Calibration XY offset, except that it is typically cleared when you slew to a new object. ...

This graph shows the percentage abundance of five gases in the atmosphere of Mars, as measured by the Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer instrument of the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite on NASA's Mars rover October 2012. ... The graph uses a logarithmic scale for volume percentage of the atmosphere so that these gases with different concentrations can all be plotted. By far the predominant gas is carbon dioxide, making up 95.9 percent of the atmosphere's volume. ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Posts tagged ?Frequentist? ... Continue reading ?[ ... Tags: Bayesian , Frequentist , Ping Zhao , question for statisticians , weighted mean . Category: Bad AstroStat , Fitting , Frequentist , Stat , Uncertainty | 18 Comments . ... Category: arXiv , Quotes | Comment . ... Category: arXiv | ... Category: Bayesian , Fitting , Frequentist , Jargon , Stat , Uncertainty | ...

... Spectral regions highlighted by green bars have been used to detemine the тЯиB z тЯй value from H Balmer lines, and the magenta bars highlight the spectral regions used to estimate the magnetic field from metal lines. ... The FORS1 instrument of the ESO Very Large Telescope was used to obtain low resolution circular polarized spectra of nearly a thousand of different stars, with the aim of measuring their mean longitudinal magnetic fields. ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

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... October 17, 1999 . Black Holes in Galactic Centers . ... HST , NASA . Explanation: Do all galaxies have black holes at their centers? Although not even a single galaxy has yet been proven to have a central black hole , the list of candidates continues to increase. ... In all the galaxies studied, star speeds continue to increase closer the very center . This in itself indicates a center millions of times more massive than our Sun is needed to contain the stars. ... About APOD > . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Choosing the Right Microscope . ... On most microscopes the specimen glass remains fixed while the microscope's objective lens and eyepiece move as a unit up or down to focus the image. ... Eyepieces of varying powers work with objective lenses of varying powers to yield a range of microscope magnifications. ... Magnification: The effective magnification of a microscope is determined by multiplying the eyepiece power by the objective lens power . ... about meade |...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

Interball-Tail Magnetic field measurements . Magnetic field measurements on-board the Interball Tail Probe are carried out by the FM-3I and MIF instruments. ... FM-3 M2 magnetometer failed in February 1996, FM-3 M1 and MIF are working until now. Data presented here are the combination of the data of all magnetometers. First of all FM-3 M1 data are used, if they are absent, MIF data used and if data of both magnetometer are absent, FM-3 M2 data presented. ...

Distributed Software for Observations in Near Infrared V. Gavryusev 1 and C. Baffa Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri E. Giani Dipartamento di Astronomia, Universit`a di Firenze Abstract. ... The processes denoted for control of hardware (telescope and other instruments) should be executed currently on PC dedicated for this task under DESQview/X, while all other components (user interface, tools for the data analysis, etc.) can work also under Unix. ... 1993, Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ...

... Virtually all detectors and telesco pes are sensitive to only a particular range of frequencies or wavelengths. ... Flux per unit wavelength or frequency So in practice, when we measure how much radiation we receive from some object, we usually mean the energy at some particular frequency, not the integral of the energy over all frequencies (which would be the bolometric brightness). ... But imaging data at UV, optical and IR wavelengths often uses a different approach: broad-band imaging. ...