FGS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Fine Guidance Sensor Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Appendix B: FGS1r PerformanceSummary > B.2 Angular Resolution Test . ... At the time of the test, the predicted angular separation of the components was 0.085" (Franz and Wasserman, private communication). ... By rolling the HST in 6 increments, the projected separation along the X axis varied from the predicted angular resolution limit of FGS1r (~6 mas) to the resolution limit of FGS3 (~20 mas). ...

Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...

Next: Preface Up: Front Cover Previous: Front Cover . ... VLT First Light . ... CONICA: The high resolution near-infrared camera for the ESO VLT . The STScI NICMOS Calibration Pipeline . ... The Evolution of Stars seen with ISOCAM - the Need for NICMOS and VLT Follow Up. ... HST NICMOS Observations of Circumstellar Matter Around CYG X-3 . ... HST-NICMOS Observations of Galactic Bulges: Red Nuclei in Nearby Galaxies . ... Investigating the Evolution of Quasar Host Galaxies with NICMOS . ...

... Science Publications > Science Announcements > 8th VLTI Summer School: High angular resolution in astrophysics: optical interferometry from theory to observations . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... Optical/infrared long-baseline interferometry has reached a new stage with the advent of multi-telescope arrays accessible to a broad community of astronomers, most notably VLTI . ...

Static Fourier spectrometers are often used for spectral measurements of the ionosphere emissions. There are two main advantages of Fourier spectrometers (FS) - large geometric factor and high spectral resolution; these parameters are two orders better than for grating spectral instruments. ... In scanning Fourier spectrometer optical and electric modulation of signal is used to avoid this problem, for static Fourier spectrometer there are no such ways. ...

Next: Summary of reduction Up: Echelle Reduction Previous: Saving the Data . In the present version we will be concerned with the standard configuration of CASPEC, the Cassegrain Echelle Spectrograph which is in operation at the Cassegrain focus of the ESO 3.6 m telescope. ... In its standard configuration CASPEC uses a a 31.6 lines/mm echelle grating together with a 300 lines/mm grating cross disperser. ... The table shows the change in resolution with the order number. Table: Resolution . ...

... 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. ...

... The product and processing information for the EPIC instrument. ... Parameter Mand Type Default Constraints pindex yes dataset none valid le name The Pipeline Processing Summary Index File obspage yes string none valid le name Output observation summary page . ppspage yes string none valid le name Output pipeline processing summary page . epxpage yes string none valid le name Output EPIC instruments processing summary ... Pipeline processing HTML summary le. ...

... Navigation in the near planetary space, Mars and Phobos observations. ... navigation in the near-planetary space based on images of Mars, Phobos and the starry sky; . Phobos high resolution imaging; . ... angle               angle . ... Number of TV-cameras                     2                       2 KNM — Mars Observation Camera — is being designed as the scientific instrument of the Phobos-Grunt mission. ... Both instruments are developed for Russian Phobos-Grunt project. ...

This instrument is a spectometer with . ... maximum resolution of 40 Hz (8.4 m/s at 1.4 GHz) . ... The control software has been developed using Object Oriented analysis and modelling techniques ( Arcetri report 3/98 ). ... n. 3/93: ARCOS - Arcetri Correlation Spectrometer: Clock Generation module . n. 13/93: ARCOS - Arcetri Correlation Spectrometer: Project status report . ... n. 3/98: Software Analysis for the Arcetri COrrelation Spectrometer . ...

... ARC 3.5m | Instrument Summary . ... ARCES (Echelle) : the ARC Echelle spectrograph, a high resolution (R~31,500) echelle spectrograph that observes the entire wavelength range from 3200 е to 10000 in a single image on a 2048x2048 CCD. This instrument is permanently mounted at the NA1 port. ... In addition to the facility instruments, several visitor instruments have been used at the 3.5m, and some of these are available to the ARC observing community by contacting the instrument PIs: . ...

... December 21, 1997 . ... Advantages are briefly discussed of gaining in spectral resolution, which is accompanied by losses in signal level, as compared with the attempts to improve the accuracy of measurement of line parameters by means of rising the S/N ratio alone with increasing the exposure time. To partially solve the problem of observations of faint objects at the BTA a new design echelle spectrometer is proposed. high resolution spectroscopy . ...

HEAD 2011: Poster 10.05 Project Tanagra: Stellar Flares in Chandra High-Resolution Spectra Jennifer Posson-Brown, Vinay Kashyap, Steven Saar & Jeremy Drake (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Abstract We introduce Project Tanagra: Timing Analysis of Gratings Data, a uniform study of archival Chandra gratings observations of active l ow-mass coronal stars. ... See Kashyap et al. 2002, 2011 and Saar et al. 2011.) ... High resolution spectra from MEG and HEG first order, and ze roth order. ...

Next: Pulsar bin-mode observations Up: ATCA Bin Mode Observations Previous: ATCA Correlator Bin Modes . Miriad 's atlod task has an option, options=hires which converts a RPFITS file observed in high time resolution bin-mode into an apparently normal dataset with fine time resolution. ... In high resolution time mode, the time difference between consecutive integrations might be smaller than this tolerance. ... Miriad manager . ...

NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... Visitor Center . ... Optical . Lidar . At Arecibo we have a variety of optical instruments that we use to study terrestrial airglow emissions. ... This equipment is located in our Optical Laboratory, which is on site about 1000 feet from the center of the incoherent scatter radar. ... The various observational modes that are available are described in supplementary documentation for the Arecibo Observatory Optical Laboratories. ...

... 2004: . Creation of a unique set of the spectral and polarization complex of high resolution in the range of 6-18 GHz, consisting of 64 channels with a 1% analysis stripe was concluded. Based on the combination of key parameters - the frequency overlap and resolution, sensitivity and accuracy of polarization measurements, such a complex is the first instrument of its kind in the practice of solar astronomy. ... Archive . ...

... 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 . ...

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 . ...

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 . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This is the first in a series of papers in which we describe and report the analysis of a large survey of Herbig Ae/Be stars in circular spectropolarimetry. Using the ESPaDOnS and Narval high-resolution spectropolarimeters at the Canada-France-Hawaii and Bernard Lyot Telescopes, respectively, we have acquired 132 circularly-polarised spectra of 70 Herbig Ae/Be stars and Herbig candidates. ...