... Instruments . ... Exposure_Number: 1 Target_Name: HD12345 Config: HRS Opmode: ACQ Aperture: 2.0 Sp_Element: MIRROR-N1 Wavelength: Optional_Parameters: BRIGHT=RETURN, ! ... Number_of_Iterations: 1 Time_Per_Exposure: 13.5S Special_Requirements: ONBOARD ACQ FOR 2 Comments: STEP-TIME = 1.5 sec Exposure_Number: 2 Target_Name: HD12345 Config: HRS Opmode: ACQ/PEAKUP Aperture: 0.25 Sp_Element: MIRROR-N1 Wavelength: Optional_Parameters: SEARCH-SIZE=5 ! ...

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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 . ...

... Near-Infrared Integral-Field Spectrograph (NIFS): . An Instrument Proposed for Gemini . ... In late 1998 the International Gemini Project Office identified a need for a low cost, near-infrared spectrograph to be commissioned on the Gemini South telescope on the shortest possible timescale. In response, the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University proposed to design, construct, and commission a near-infrared, integral-field spectrograph on Gemini. ...

... XMM-Newton SOC Home Page Conferences & Meetings . ... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? How to use SAS SAS Workshops SAS Version Changes Download and Install SAS Science Simulator (SciSim) . ... EPIC cameras optical loading . ... The PI is invited to cross-check the expected X-ray flux from the target source (and from any other potentially bright source in the target field of view), or to provide the SOC with her/his own estimate, if not originally specified in the proposal. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

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 . ...

... Mid-UV spectra of faint QSOs are the way to go, and this means a space mission. Some sort of space telescope: a successor to the HST, with good spectrographs that work in the UV is what you want. With such an instrument you could investigate when and how the intergalactic gas became so hot, how it is distributed, and what it is made of. ... Other useful facilities would include smaller telescopes for finding lots of nice high-redshift QSOs for you to study. ...

... However, because ALFA was built to enable very large-scale sky surveys, NAIC seeks to encourage the formation of research teams, consortia, to take on the task of conducting ambitious sky surveys with the primary goal of creating legacy archival databases for public use. The legacy sky surveys are done as a partnership between NAIC and the research consortia, the policies and guidelines for which are summarized here. ... NAIC will archive the raw data at the Arecibo Observatory. ...

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. ...

This describes the exposure window used by each instrument (the graphical interface for the hub's expose command). ... To open the expose window for a given instrument, bring up that instrument's main window, then press the Expose... button along the bottom. ... The top panel shows the status of the current exposure sequence (regardless of who started it). ... File: the file name for the current exposure, or the most recent exposure if not exposing. ... Download: exposure download preferences. ...

... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an amateur astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... In 1973, the Bond Astronomical Society, another long-standing club, merged with the ATMoB making the club one of the oldest and largest general interest astronomy clubs in the country. ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. is an IRS designated 501(c)3 public charity organization. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... Orbiter . Payload of the Orbiter . ... the instruments . ... ORBITER . Index . Instrument . Mass (kg) . ARGUS . ... visible and IR mapping spectrometer . ... planetary IR Fourier spectrometer . ... mapping visible and thermal radiometer . ... mapping high-resolut. spectrophotometer . ... multichannel optical s spectrometer . ... quadrupole mass-spectrometer . ... fast omnidir. energy-mass ion analyzer . ... wave complex . ... platform for ARGUS instruments . ... MASS-MEM . ...

... NASA's newest Great Observatory, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) -- formally known as the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) -- launched on July 23, 1999 and represents such an advance. ... Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (HDOS), now Raytheon Optical Systems Incorporated, figured and polished the x-ray optics; Optical Coating Laboratory Incorporated (OCLI) coated the polished optics with iridium; and Eastman Kodak Company (EKC) mounted and aligned the optics and provided the optical...

... The science goal monitoring (SGM) system is a proof-of-concept effort to address these challenges. The SGM will have an interface to help capture higher level science goals from the scientists and translate them into a flexible observing strategy that SGM can execute and monitor. ... The Science Goal Monitor (SGM) system will interact with not only the data processing pipeline for a mission, but when used on board the spacecraft, it will also interact with the raw data from the detector. ...

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 ). ...

I work at the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center (CXC) . The CXC is part of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. ... I am the Chandra Observatory Mission Operations Manager, which includes duty as the Chandra Flight Director . ... High Resolution Camera (HRC) . ... HRC Higher-level Sequences . ... Dr. Michael Juda . Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics . ... HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS | ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Introduction to COAST . ... The quest for high angular resolution at optical wavelengths has prompted the development of a variety of techniques to overcome atmospheric seeing at astronomical sites. ... The Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope ( COAST ) was planned as a coherent array of four telescopes operating in the red and near infra-red, using Michelson interferometry on baselines of up to 100m to give images with a resolution down to 1 milliarcsecond. ...

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 . ...