TIRGO standard instruments: . ... the near IR camera ARNICA . the long-slit near IR spectrometer LONGSP . Manual for Arnica and LongSp controlling program Xnir (Arcetri Technical Report 7/96)(6608k) . Telescope control program manual (by Riccardo Cerulli) . Autoguider manual . Telescope control: . part 1 . ... How to control the telescope from a guest instrument . The archiviation project for Tirgo Nicmos 3 based instrumentation. ...

... Despite the use of counterweights, I have had ongoing problems with preventing unwanted motion in altitude, particularly during star parties when everyone seems to want to lean on the telescope while observing. ... After some difficulties at a windy star party a few years ago at the Boston Museum of Science, I designed a simple and very effective altitude brake and slow motion control which can be assembled very quickly and at minimal cost. ... The other end of the arm attaches to a turnbuckle*. ...

... 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. ...

... 4 November 1994 . orbit . ... 0.0128 . ... orbit period . ... satellite mass . 1950 kg . scientific payload mass . 550 kg . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . 1997-2002 SMIS IKI RAN and SRC "PLANETA" Moscow, Russia. ...

... 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. ...

... I.A. Karpov, E.D. Shoo 'New equipment for microwave electric field visualization' Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 83, Iss. 7, 074704 (2012) ... top . G.V. Strukov, G.K. Strukova, E.D. Shoo 'An experimental setup for obtaining metallic multilayer coatings with layers of nanometer thickness' Instruments and Experimental Techniques, Vol. 52, Iss. 5, 727-730 (2009) ... top ... top . ...

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. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Antenna system . ... The Irkutsk incoherent scatter radar is one of the world's nine active radars which give the opportunity to investigate ionosphere by the incoherent scatter method. ... Antenna gain coefficient . ... Antenna . ... Two antennas . ... To get an idea what station "Dnepr" antenna system looks like, let us consider some of the radar views which are given by the photographs General view and Side view . ...

. The Source Code Control System is an essential tool for any project with multiple source files or which has several people working with multiple source files. It provides a way to keep track of a source file's development and to prevent it from being altered by more than one person at a time. Putting files under SCCS control . Checking out files . Checking in files . Getting information about files . Creating new releases . Comparing files under SCCS control .

... This dramatic image of the Moon's edge against a background of distant stars is from a perspective impossible for groundbased telescopes. ... The entire sky is seen projected on a coordinate system centered on our Milky Way Galaxy with the plane of the Galaxy running across the middle of the picture. ... Alpha Centauri: The Closest Star System . ... In the center of 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. ... Star Cluster in the Rosette Nebula . ...

INFRARED FOURIER-SPECTROMETER SICH-F . ... Instrument work regimes: 1) Inside. 2) Calibration at inside standard sources 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 3) Calibration at "free space" 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 4) Infrared radiation measuring 10 - 40 min. per a rotation. ... Spectrometer consists of the photodetector block and the block of signal processing and control. ... Diagnostic information and attach data will transfer by state telemetric channels. ... Detector temperature. ...

AUTOMATIC STATION OF ECOLOGICAL CONTROL . ... STATE OF ASEC DEVELOPMENT . ... ASEC . ... Warranted life-time of balloons and calibration mixed gases, months . ... Telemetry system supplying information from each station to ecological center on technical state of gas analyzing equipment and instruments, emergency situations and unauthorized opening of the station. available . ... Calibration mixed gasses are stored inside the balloons as part of ASEC. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...

To see the manner in which position of planets and their coordinates vary with time click on icons with arrows Right or Left in menu bar. ... The current moment of time and object coordinates are therewith displayed. ... Clicking on icons with symbols of sun or crescent leads to appearance of images of the Sun or the Moon in that point of the sky which correspond to their coordinates in current moment unless it lies within not displayed region; see below). ...

... Events . ... Pre-university education . ... Research areas . ... Samara region . ... Samara State Aerospace University Research Research and education centers Research Laboratory of the "Analytical instruments and systems' (RL-54) . ... Development of control systems by applying a protective coating on the inner surface of pipes. Development of non-contact optical and acoustic systems for measurements of geometric parameters of profile products , including pipeline facilities. ...

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RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Receiving systems . The SSRT has two independent receiving systems for recording solar observational data, and several ancillary receivers for checking, setting up and adjusting the instrument. The base receiving systen is a multichannel filter receiver for a simultaneous recording in 180 channels with the 500 kHz band each, adjusted at steps of about 600 kHz. ... Channel's band . ...

The Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer . Articles | ... NPOI, Page 3 . Optical fibers on the beam combiner table guide the combined starlight to the electronics room. ... Electronics Lab . The scope of control necessary to make something like an Optical Interferometer work is immense. ... The instrument must process data fast enough to track air disturbances and correct them. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

SPECTRUM-X-GAMMA . international astrophysical project . ... Control system units of Spacecraft Engineering Model were delivered to Lavochkin Associati on Jan. 23 2002. The assembling of Engineering model of Spacecraft Control System and the preliminary testing of the system will be performed in February. The stand-alone tests of Spacecraft Control System is being planned for April 2002. Febr., ... You are visitor number since October 02, 2000 . ...

Next: The Focal Plane Instruments Up: No Title Previous: The X-ray Optics . CXO has two focal plane instruments - the High-Resolution Camera (HRC) and the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). Each of these instruments, in turn, has two detectors, one optimized for direct imaging of x rays that pass through the optics and the other optimized for imaging x rays that are dispersed by the objective transmission gratings when the latter are commanded into place directly behind the HRMA. ...