... JWST . ... Optical Telescope Element . ... NIRCam . ... The long wavelength channel is based on a 2048 x 2048 pixel chip with 0.0648"/pixel scale. ... Each channel has a pupil and filter wheel. ... Each channel is equipped with a 12 slot pupil wheel containing coronagraphic pupil masks , wavefront sensing optics , filters , and calibration sources . The pupil wheel is followed in the optical train by a 12 slot filter wheel containing wide-band and narrow-band filters. ... Filters/pupil wheel . ...

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. ... LightBridge Series . ... Test . ...

The optical scheme of the instrument is sketched in Figure 1 , it is designed to match the F/20 focal ratio of the TIRGO telescope. We have, following the optical path, the window of the dewar, the order sorting filter (not in figure), a field lens, in Calcium Floride, and the slit, in the focal plane of the telescope. ... The resolving power is (for first order of grating) of about 600 in the center of J band and 950 in the center of the K band, using a slit of two pixel (3.46 arcsec). ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Systems Engineering Docs . ... MROI FTT Contract Private Material . ... Doc Man . ... 1100 FTT/NAS . ... 1120 Camera . ... 1170 Test Equipment . ... MRO-TRE-CAM-0000-0102 FTT/NAS Conceptual Design Report . ... MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0109 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UTE" FTT/NAS & FLC to Enclosure ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0110 "FTT/NAS,FLC-NOT" FTT/NAS & FLC to optical table ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0111 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UT" FTT/NAS & FLC to UT optical ICD . ...

The construction of NIFS is progressing well with preparations in hand for the next two cooldowns. The detailed design of all the NIFS mechanisms has been completed and the mechanisms are under construction. ... The NIFS OIWFS filter/aperture wheel and OIWFS gimbal mechanism have been manufactured by the University of Hawaii and delivered to the Australian National University. ... Vinko Medic polishing the OIWFS optable in preparation for cold-testing the NIFS mechanisms in the cryostat. ...

... Design of Imaging Optics . Analyzing Optics . ... The high resolution near infrared camera (CONICA) for the first VLT unit telescope is under development. It serves as a multi-mode instrument for the wavelength region between 1.0 and 5.0 microns, providing diffraction-limited spatial resolution when combined with the adaptive optic system NAOS of the VLT (Rosset et al. ... VLT instrumentation, ALADDIN InSb detector, NIR imaging, NIR spectroscopy, re-imaging optics, IR optics . ...

The Agile window provides complete control over the Agile high-speed photometer. ... All other parameters are specified as part of the command that starts an exposure sequence. ... To connect the filter wheel controller, issue this command in the command bar at the bottom of the Log window: agile connDev fw . ... To home the filter wheel controller, issue this command in the command bar at the bottom of the Log window: agile fwhome (there must be a filter wheel mounted in Agile for homing to succeed). ...

... 400mm f/2.8 Nikor lens: images the sky on the entrance slit. ... The optical system maintains image quality along the slit length so that each row of the image is a spectrum of that spatially selected region of the sky. 180mm f/2.8 Nikor lens: collimates the light from the slit. ... The auxiliary optical platform on WISPI now accomodates a short focal lens and a guiding/imaging video system that may use sub-pixel corrections to provide feedback to the tracking drive motors. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > Instrumentation Development . ... Science Users Information . ... La Silla Paranal Observatory . ... Paranal Instrumentation . Decommissioned Instruments . ... VLT/VLTI Science Verification . ... ESO exercises strict control over the interfaces between the VLT observatory and its instruments. ... The instruments below are now maintained (and documented on the ESO web) by the Directorate of Operations/La Silla Paranal Observatory: . ...

... Up: Science Data Pipelines . ... We designed and developed a package which simulates extragalactic point source data within a given field of view and SIRTF band. ... The simulator is modular and extensible to enable multi-wavelength simulations, has been optimized by utilizing parallel processing capabilities, and will be used to test pipeline software. ... The extragalactic simulator is capable of generating large numbers of galaxies within a given patch of sky for SIRTF pipeline testing. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

RTT150 . Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope . ... Until 2002 observations were mostly performed with ST-8E CCD in the 1:7.7 Cassegrain focus. ... In April, 2003 telescope was equipped with a larger-size CCD Andor DW436 . ... 2048 x 2048 pixels, . ... Since summer of 2002 the main focal detector of the RTT150 telescope was AP47p CCD in 1:7.7 Cassegrain focus. ... During September 3-13, 2002 works on installation of new autoguiding system ( photo 1 ) were carried out on RTT150 telescope. ...

Description and Specifications (html) ( pdf ) . System Block Diagram (pdf) . ... GALFA Spectrometer Setup, Operations, Basics Manual (pdf) . GALFA Diagnostic Software Overview . ... Polyphase Filter Bank . ... Design of Quadrature Downconverter Board (pdf) . Design of Low-Pass Filters (pdf) . Design of 16-Channel DAC/Gain Control Board (pdf) . ... Design of Digital Decimating FIR Filter (pdf) . ... Quadrature downconverter (August 9, 2004) . Spectrometer board (September 1, 2004) . ...

... The collecting area is increased by nesting concentric mirror pairs, all having the same focal length. ... Figure shows the largest optical element being ground at HDOS. ... X-ray testing demonstrated that the CXO mirrors are indeed the largest high-resolution X-ray optics ever made; the nominal effective area (based on the ground calibrations) is shown as a function of energy in the left panel of Figure , along with those of their Einstein and ROSAT predecessors. ...

... IRPS is the small size infrared photometer with detector cooled by liquid nitrogen . IRPS was designed as the instrument for work with optical systems with angular apertures . ... Multichannel preamplifiers (N*8) are designed for use with IR and mm wave detectors arrays. ... Thermoelectric cooling system is designed for use with IR detectors. ... IR photodetector modules with detectors cooled by LN2. ... Gas cooled radiation shield optical cryostat, IR detectors. liquid nitrogen capacity 1.2 ltr. ...

... Components For Gas Analysers . Russian High Technologies . ... Optical Unit for Portable IR-Gas Analyzer . ... Opto Pairs for Gas Analysers . ... One of detectors of the opto-pair has the sensitivity range within absorption band of analysed gas (near 3.2 microns for CH 4 ; 3.4 microns for C n H m and 4.26 microns for CO 2 ). ... Opto Pairs for Gas Analysers The Opto Pairs have been developed for gas infrared spectro-analyzing apparatus as base component of optical units of the apparatus . ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Images . ... The optical design uses a simple and effective all refractive arrangement (see Figure 1) and all design goals were attained in actual operation at the telescope. An internal focus, (reimaged onto the detector), is required to allow masking of the image plane to accommodate a future polarization beam splitter. б  . ...

... Parameters . Filters . ... Direct images . ... The SCORPIO-2 project: . Spectral Camera with Optical Reducer for Photometric and Interferometric Observations - 2 . The broad-band glass filters made in SAO RAS are used for the observation in the Johnson-Cousins (UBVRI) photometric system in the direct images mode. The glass filters transmission curves are shown by solid line. ... The filters transmission curves of the `comets' filters measured with the SCORPIO-2 in the F/4 beam. ...

... 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 . ...

... Telescopes . ... The spectrograph is installed in the Nasmyth focus of the BTA telescope, the equivalent focal length is 186 m (F/31). ... The preslit device unit is marked by number 3. ... Fig. ... slit unit of the MSS, 4.1 ? ... The spectrograph slit unit consists of a mirror that redirects the light beam from the Z axis and from the calibration path at an angle of 65њ to the axis of the telescope focus into the slit, the order separation filter, the block of the slit and the shutter (Item 4 in...