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... Introducing Spitzer The Spitzer Space Telescope is a cryogenically cooled, infrared observatory in space. Spitzer can study objects ranging from our Solar System to the distant reaches of the Universe. The Universe in the Infrared ...
... Introducing Spitzer The Spitzer Space Telescope is a cryogenically cooled, infrared observatory in space. Spitzer can study objects ranging from our Solar System to the distant reaches of the Universe. The Universe in the Infrared ...
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Lick Survey 1 million galaxies!
... 20 TB raw imaging data pipeline 100,000,000 galaxies 50,000,000 stars Southern Galactic Cap multiple scans (> 30 times) of one stripe another 20 TB of raw imaging data detect fainter, variable, and moving objects Continuous data rate of 8 Mbytes/sec ...
... 20 TB raw imaging data pipeline 100,000,000 galaxies 50,000,000 stars Southern Galactic Cap multiple scans (> 30 times) of one stripe another 20 TB of raw imaging data detect fainter, variable, and moving objects Continuous data rate of 8 Mbytes/sec ...
TERMS USED IN MANIPULATING A TRANSIT VERNIER
... i) Ordinary Method. To measure horizontal angle AOB:vi) Change the face of the instrument and repeat the whole process. The mean of the two vernier readings gives the second value of the angle AOB which should be approximately or exactly equal to the previous value. vii) The mean of the two values o ...
... i) Ordinary Method. To measure horizontal angle AOB:vi) Change the face of the instrument and repeat the whole process. The mean of the two vernier readings gives the second value of the angle AOB which should be approximately or exactly equal to the previous value. vii) The mean of the two values o ...
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... And once I mastered the procedure, the Advanced CT Laser Collimator did a good job aligning the optics. I did notice via the star test (which I performed each time) that collimation typically required a few tweaks. In looking back, I suspect I was not quite critical enough in ensuring alignment betw ...
... And once I mastered the procedure, the Advanced CT Laser Collimator did a good job aligning the optics. I did notice via the star test (which I performed each time) that collimation typically required a few tweaks. In looking back, I suspect I was not quite critical enough in ensuring alignment betw ...
Special Protein in Zebrafish May Lead to Full Spinal
... key to do full spinal cord repair. It seems the zebrafish is capable of healing a completely severed spinal cord with special proteins. An injury of this kind in humans can be paralyzing and can even lead to fatal conditions. Researchers from Duke University have discovered that zebrafish possess a ...
... key to do full spinal cord repair. It seems the zebrafish is capable of healing a completely severed spinal cord with special proteins. An injury of this kind in humans can be paralyzing and can even lead to fatal conditions. Researchers from Duke University have discovered that zebrafish possess a ...
view of the Great Nebula. - Cool Cosmos
... shine by reflected light. The situation is akin to trying to identify a firefly buzzing around an intensely bright searchlight—from a great distance. At optical wavelengths, a star might be several billion times brighter than a large planet. However, at infrared wavelengths, where the planet emits i ...
... shine by reflected light. The situation is akin to trying to identify a firefly buzzing around an intensely bright searchlight—from a great distance. At optical wavelengths, a star might be several billion times brighter than a large planet. However, at infrared wavelengths, where the planet emits i ...
11 01 04 Portable M Class Astro
... These telescopes also require high quality optics. One of the most important features of telescopes intended for astro-imaging is their etendue—the product of their aperture in square meters and their well-corrected field in square degrees. The eye inherently senses the total information content of ...
... These telescopes also require high quality optics. One of the most important features of telescopes intended for astro-imaging is their etendue—the product of their aperture in square meters and their well-corrected field in square degrees. The eye inherently senses the total information content of ...
CASA Concept for HROS - Thirty Meter Telescope
... particular the fiber-fed IFUs and dichroics, are presented in a companion paper in this volume (Osterman et al. 2006) 1. HROS will be a multi-purpose high-resolution optical spectrograph for the TMT. In order to meet its operational and functional requirements, there are several issues to confront. ...
... particular the fiber-fed IFUs and dichroics, are presented in a companion paper in this volume (Osterman et al. 2006) 1. HROS will be a multi-purpose high-resolution optical spectrograph for the TMT. In order to meet its operational and functional requirements, there are several issues to confront. ...
Eric Feng - Physics 335 Poster
... The default (low gain) trigger output of the 3-in-1 electronics card did not provide sufficient signal-to-noise ratio to trigger with full efficiency. Rerouting the trigger output to derive from the high gain output boosted the gain by a factor of 64. The number of photoelectrons produced per MIP an ...
... The default (low gain) trigger output of the 3-in-1 electronics card did not provide sufficient signal-to-noise ratio to trigger with full efficiency. Rerouting the trigger output to derive from the high gain output boosted the gain by a factor of 64. The number of photoelectrons produced per MIP an ...
Astronomytests a
... And once I mastered the procedure, the Advanced CT Laser Collimator did a good job aligning the optics. I did notice via the star test (which I performed each time) that collimation typically required a few tweaks. In looking back, I suspect I was not quite critical enough in ensuring alignment betw ...
... And once I mastered the procedure, the Advanced CT Laser Collimator did a good job aligning the optics. I did notice via the star test (which I performed each time) that collimation typically required a few tweaks. In looking back, I suspect I was not quite critical enough in ensuring alignment betw ...
Frontier Fields: Hubble Goes Deep
... this warped space will have its direction bent. Thus, the gravity of a massive cluster of galaxies can gather and magnify light, just like a glass lens does. Astronomers can use these “gravitational lenses” to see galaxies behind a galaxy cluster that would otherwise be too far away and too faint. H ...
... this warped space will have its direction bent. Thus, the gravity of a massive cluster of galaxies can gather and magnify light, just like a glass lens does. Astronomers can use these “gravitational lenses” to see galaxies behind a galaxy cluster that would otherwise be too far away and too faint. H ...
Spike: AI Scheduling for Hubble Space Telescope After 18 Months
... activities is used to fill them.This final mizationproblemanduses a heuristic repair-basedschedul- phaseof "scheduledeconflicting"has beenlittle studiedand ing search technique. An initial guess schedule is is an area whichcouldbenefit fromfurther effort. constructed, whichmayhave temporalor other c ...
... activities is used to fill them.This final mizationproblemanduses a heuristic repair-basedschedul- phaseof "scheduledeconflicting"has beenlittle studiedand ing search technique. An initial guess schedule is is an area whichcouldbenefit fromfurther effort. constructed, whichmayhave temporalor other c ...
Computer with Internet connection Dr. Dan Reichart and his
... Telescopes with excellent availability are open for at least part of >75% of nights. Telescopes with good availability are open for at least part of 50% 75% of nights. Telescopes with fair availability are open for at least part of 25% 50% of nights. Telescopes with poor availability are open fo ...
... Telescopes with excellent availability are open for at least part of >75% of nights. Telescopes with good availability are open for at least part of 50% 75% of nights. Telescopes with fair availability are open for at least part of 25% 50% of nights. Telescopes with poor availability are open fo ...
Venus Observing Information
... refraction and prismatic dispersion destroy good image quality. Seeing conditions are so poor at such times that most observers have adopted a practice of viewing Venus only when has an altitude of ≥ 20° above the horizon. At times of western (morning) apparitions, it is possible to wait until the p ...
... refraction and prismatic dispersion destroy good image quality. Seeing conditions are so poor at such times that most observers have adopted a practice of viewing Venus only when has an altitude of ≥ 20° above the horizon. At times of western (morning) apparitions, it is possible to wait until the p ...
an idl tool for interferometric visibility computations
... which can compute visibilities by interfacing with user’s modelling softwares, an IDL (Interactive Data Language) program for this latter scope is currently under developing by the Rome Astronomical Observatory. It can be used both as a standing alone tool, equipped of a Graphical User Interface (GU ...
... which can compute visibilities by interfacing with user’s modelling softwares, an IDL (Interactive Data Language) program for this latter scope is currently under developing by the Rome Astronomical Observatory. It can be used both as a standing alone tool, equipped of a Graphical User Interface (GU ...
The US Air Force Academy Falcon Telescope Network
... small aperture telescopes called the Falcon Telescope Network (FTN). Led by the Department’s Center for Space Situational Awareness Research (CSSAR), the FTN will provide USAFA cadets and faculty with world-class capability to conduct research in satellite characterization and astronomy. Partnering ...
... small aperture telescopes called the Falcon Telescope Network (FTN). Led by the Department’s Center for Space Situational Awareness Research (CSSAR), the FTN will provide USAFA cadets and faculty with world-class capability to conduct research in satellite characterization and astronomy. Partnering ...
The Surveyors` Heliotrope
... “Heliotropes, of which I had begun the use of last fall, have this year been used for most of the station points, and for the base points exclusively. I caused one to be constructed in our shop last winter, after the two received from Gottingen, by the kind assistance of Professor Gauss, the invento ...
... “Heliotropes, of which I had begun the use of last fall, have this year been used for most of the station points, and for the base points exclusively. I caused one to be constructed in our shop last winter, after the two received from Gottingen, by the kind assistance of Professor Gauss, the invento ...
5Cardeberg.pdf
... star distance? How are semi-major axis, orbital period and eccentricity of larger and smaller planets and system size distributed? How evolved are outer system regions? How frequent and stable are Earth-like planets? Are comet families frequent? Is our planetary system a typical system representativ ...
... star distance? How are semi-major axis, orbital period and eccentricity of larger and smaller planets and system size distributed? How evolved are outer system regions? How frequent and stable are Earth-like planets? Are comet families frequent? Is our planetary system a typical system representativ ...
An Overview of Wide-Field-Of-View
... Survey telescopes are by definition, wide-field of view systems. For a true telescope, fields of view are normally less than about 10 degrees. There exist a few designs that go wider with small apertures, but these are generally the exception. Systems based on camera lenses often go much wider and a ...
... Survey telescopes are by definition, wide-field of view systems. For a true telescope, fields of view are normally less than about 10 degrees. There exist a few designs that go wider with small apertures, but these are generally the exception. Systems based on camera lenses often go much wider and a ...
Wide-field CCD imager for the 6.5m MMT telescope
... four sets of the control electronics, each one capable of reading from 16 CCD ampli ers. The clock signals from the four controllers will be synchronized to minimize noise from crosstalk. The controllers will be capable of reading out each CCD at a rate of 5 microsec per pixel or the whole mosaic in ...
... four sets of the control electronics, each one capable of reading from 16 CCD ampli ers. The clock signals from the four controllers will be synchronized to minimize noise from crosstalk. The controllers will be capable of reading out each CCD at a rate of 5 microsec per pixel or the whole mosaic in ...
from simulations to operational control system
... • Example: decenters and/or tilts of M1 nearly degenerate with decenter of M2 • Similar degeneracies for L3/focal-plane system • But quasi-degeneracies are not to be feared; they are our friends – Can be identified using elementary linear algebraic techniques – They allow one to correct for one misa ...
... • Example: decenters and/or tilts of M1 nearly degenerate with decenter of M2 • Similar degeneracies for L3/focal-plane system • But quasi-degeneracies are not to be feared; they are our friends – Can be identified using elementary linear algebraic techniques – They allow one to correct for one misa ...