. The optical layout of the Main Stellar Spectrograph . folding mirror or beam splitter . slit unit . shutter . collimator . grating . Schmidt corrector . camera mirror . folding flat . CCD . The layout of the preslit is presented here . MSS page

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Fast Tip Tilt / Tech Meet 6 . ... Attendees: JSY, MF, ADR, XS, CAH, DMAW, EBS . ... With reference to error budgets . ... Selection of layouts and error budgets to present at CoDR . ... Dog-leg Transmissive . ... Zoom Transmissive . ... ADR: Refine selected layouts . ... Space to overhang table . ... ADR: Tolerancing of direct transmissive layout under table bending . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIFastTipTilt/TechMeet6) ...

Next: PSF Effects Up: WFPC and WFPC 2 Previous: Introduction . ... In both cases light from the Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA) is reflected off a ``pickoff mirror'', passes through the shutter and filter assemblies, and is then divided into four separate channels by a ``pyramid'' mirror which also serves as a field flattener. ... An important difference between the old and new cameras is that WFPC has four Wide-Field Camera (WFC) and four Planetary Camera (PC) imaging channels. ...

... Its optical telescopes – the Europe's largest telescope of the mirror diameter 6 m BTA (Big Telescope Azimuthal) Medium-Size telescope of the mirror diameter 1 m ( Zeiss-1000 ) and the small telescope of the mirror diameter 0.6 m (Zeiss-600) – are at the altitude 2100 m above sea level 17 km away from the settlement Nizhnij Arkhyz. ... Nizhnij Arkhyz . SAO staff members live in the settlement Nizhnij Arkhyz at a distance of 25 km to the southward of stanitsa Zelenchukskaya. ...

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... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

RTT150 . Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope . ... Telescope has two main foci (Cassegrain and Coude ) and allows to use six optical systems based on Ritchey-Chretien system with a common main mirror . At present scientific observations are being performed at the Cassegrain focus in main optical scheme with focal ratio of 1:7.7. ... flat . ... To use the Coude focus the removable flat diagonal mirror is also needed in the crossing point of declination axis and main optical axis of telescope. ...

... Penny Sackett presents a copy of the book, siтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . ... Title: Penny Sackett presents a copy of the book, signed by the authors, to John Anderson. ... Penny Sackett presents a copy of the book, signed by the authors, to John Anderson. ...

... VLT: A New Largest Optical Telescope . ... 1.09.1996 . ... Credit: European Southern Observatory Explanation: What is the largest telescope in the world? ... But an even larger optical telescope is being built. ... The first of these telescopes should be completed in 1997, and all four should be completed and working together sometime in the year 2000. ... September 1996 . ... Publications with keywords: optical - VLT - telescope . Publications with words: optical - VLT - telescope . ...

Views of the Solar System . ... V iews of the Solar System presents a vivid multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more. ... Views of the Solar System offers enhanced exploration and educational enjoyment of the solar system and beyond. ... Sun . ... Asteroids . Comets . ... History . ... Satellite Data . ... Browser . ... Credits . ... Solar System Introduction . ... Sun, Planet & Satellite Data | Planetary Data Browser | ...

Stellar Clusters are very useful laboratories for empirically studying stellar evolution. ... All cluster stars are at the same distance . All cluster stars have the same physical age . ... CM diagram Young Cluster In this case we see the Main Sequence fully represented. The blue dots represent massive stars with short main sequence lifetimes. ... Thus, identifying the most massive star which is still on the main sequence is an effective means of determining the age of a stellar cluster. ...

... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

... Gondoin et al. paper submitted to SPIE 2000 (in PostScript) . ... In-flight calibration of the XMM-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometers . ... Calibration of the first XMM Flight Mirror Module: I. - Image Quality . ... CCDs in X-ray Astronomy . ... X-ray performance of a qualification model of an XMM mirror module, pp.390-401 (Philippe Gondoin et al) . ... Reflection grating arrays for the Reflection Grating Spectrometer on board XMM, pp.450-462 (Steven M Kahn et al) . ... 1995) . ... Gondoin Ph.,...

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). ...

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . Meade Ultra-High Transmission coatings (UHTC ) Group . ... Meade Standard Coatings: The optical surfaces of all Meade telescopes include high-grade optical coatings fully consistent in quality with the precision of the optical surfaces themselves. ... These specialized, and extremely advantageous, coatings are offered here as the Meade Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC) group, a coatings group available optionally on many Meade telescope models. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... ESO . ... VLT/Paranal . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... VLT Unit Telescopes Names . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... The VISTA mirror . ... The image illustrates the corresponding deformation of the primary mirror (relative to the normal shape; vertical scale greatly enhanced). ...

At Arecibo we have a variety of optical instruments that we use to study terrestrial airglow emissions. ... As a complement to the airglow instrumentation we also maintain a set of optical instruments, called lidars, used for "active" remote sensing of the atmosphere. That is, we generate our own source signal using lasers and measure the characteristics of the light scattered back from the atmosphere. ... An operations manual for the Optical Laboratories is currently under major revision. ...

... September 1, 1996 . VLT: A New Largest Optical Telescope . Credit and Copyright: European Southern Observatory . ... Dubbed the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is building four 8.2-meter mirrors in Chile which together will act as a single telescope with a mirror diameter of over 16-meters. The first of these telescopes should be completed in 1997, and all four should be completed and working together sometime in the year 2000. ... About APOD | ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

... Two high school students from Texas and Louisiana are the winners of the 2012 Priscilla and Bart Bok Awards for their astronomy projects presented at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in May. The awards were presented on May 18 by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) in partnership with the American Astronomical Society (AAS), supported by funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). ... The Bok prize is named for Bart and Priscilla Bok. ...