... Mirror hard points, Galil channels A-D, are at nominal positions for observations . Lateral link drives, Galil channels E & F, are at nominal positions for observations . Install telescope-wind baffle turnbuckles . ... Remove wind baffle (see wind baffle rem. proc.) . ... Remove remaining 2 pair of wind baffle counterweights . ... Move wind baffle + telescope to zenith "bird bath", install pin, apply telescope altitude brake, depress emergency stop button and disable wind baffle drive . ...

... In laboratory the design and a manufacturing techniques mirror aspherical optics are developed ("fokon", ellipsoid, aspherical mirror).Such optical elements are made of widespread aluminium alloys on the standard equipment without use diamond turning. ... Using: optical blocks of not image optical devices for transitions, collimation, focus (concentration) radiations in a wide spectral range from UV to IR. Focusing and collimation of light; . ... circle aperture/ring aperture; . ... Back Forward . ...

... Mission . ... Mission overview . Spectrum-RG is a Russian - Germany X-ray astrophysical observatory. Germany is responsible for the development of the key mission instrument - the X-ray grazing-incident mirror telescope eROSITA. ... The first 4 years will be devoted to an all-sky survey, and the rest of the mission lifetime will be spent on follow-on pointed observations of a selection of the most interesting galaxy clusters and AGNs. ... 2016 IKI RAN ...

Helpful information for users of the UNIX operating system, developed at the University of Edinburgh from work funded by the ITTI . ... UNIXhelp is mirrored around the world and freely available for local installation. ... Working with files and directories . Managing your working environment . Controlling access to your files and directories . ... Editing text files . ... Using UNIX commands . ... UNIX commands for VMS users . UNIX commands for DOS users . ... The UNIX file system . ...

... ESO for the Public > Doing Business with ESO > Technology Transfer > Historic examples of ESO-developed technologies . ... Solar System . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Technical CCD systems . ... The original TCCD systems are now obsolescent, and have been replaced by a newer version based on a commercial controller and an ESO-developed CCD head. ... Remote Observing . ... Before the VLT era, astronomers given observing time on ESO telescopes had to travel to Chile to carry out their observations. ...

Where can I get information about NEdit? Are there any mailing lists for NEdit users? ... The nedit developers also subscribe to this list, and hopefully someone will be able to answer your question. ... The lists are: . ... Developers should also subscribe to the discuss list. announce@nedit.org : a low-volume mailing list for announcing new versions. ... You may submit mail to the discussion list by sending it to the appropriate list: discuss@nedit.org , develop@nedit.org or announce@nedit.org . ...

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... Pan-STARRS -- the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System -- is an innovative design for a wide-field imaging facility being developed at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy. ... Our program exploits both of these unique capabilities of HST to learn more about one of the greatest mysteries in science. 1 are expected to show evidence for a past epoch of cosmic deceleration, a clear signature of a mixed dark-matter and dark-energy Universe. ...

... We are developing and integrating software to simulate the focal plane detectors, shutters, and gratings for the Advanced X-ray Astrophysical Facility (AXAF). ... The simulations are currently being used for planning calibration activities, on-orbit performance prediction and for testing the analysis and telemetry software. ... The models, being developed as part of the AXAF Science Center, are being used to aid in calibration planning and to characterize the performance of the AXAF observatory. ...

... SSAU History . ... SSAU team took the 1st place in the competition of engineering teams within the competence of Lifecycle Management at the National Championship of cross-industry working professions in high-tech industries WorldSkills Hi-Tech-2015 in Yekaterinburg. ... The participants developed the project concepts, prepared design and engineering documentation, performed strength, aerodynamic and economic calculation as well as marketing research, made 3D-printed model of the developed jetpack. ...

... Primary Mirror after being stripped and recoated in 3-layer protected silver (NiCr-Ag-NiCr) on 12 September 2009. image: CIMG7901.jpg . ... Primary Mirror held by (yellow) handling tool being lifted off transport container (note the tennis balls it rested on), to be put on wash cart during unpacking at VISTA on 29 March 2008. image: P1060207.jpg (taken 29/03/08) . ... VISTA Mirror Blank: Shape of 4m primary mirror blank being tested at Schott Glas in Germany. image: M1_shape_checking-300dpi.jpg . ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

. Dedicated to 40th anniversary of the . first artificial Earth satellite launch . Russian (Win) .

... Both sets of objective transmission gratings consist of hundreds of co-aligned facets mounted to supporting structures on 4 annuli (one for each of the four co-aligned mirror pairs) to intercept the x rays exiting the HRMA. ... The two sets of transmission gratings, attached to the mounting structure are shown in Figure . ... An individual facet has 0.43-m-thick gold grating bars with 50% filling factor and 9920- period, resulting in 1.15-/mm dispersion. The HRC-S is the primary LETG readout. ...

... 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. ...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... Follow the handle of the Big Dipper away from the dipper's bowl, until you get to the handle's last bright star. ... As a bright November Moon lit up the night sky last week, Gil Esquerdo spotted this lovely Moon halo overhead at the Whipple Observatory on Mt. ... Janus: Potato Shaped Moon of Saturn . ... First, Janus travels in an unusual orbit around Saturn where it periodically trades places with its sister moon Epimetheus, which typically orbits about 50 kilometers away. ... Next [ Last page ] ....

... You are here: start €Ё difx €Ё haystack2011 . ... difx:haystack2011 . DiFX Users Meeting . ... The next DiFX users meeting will be held at Haystack Observatory, from the 5th through the 9th of December. This is the fifth in a series of meetings of users and developers of the DiFX software correlator. ... The current list of registrants can be found here . ... The meeting will be held at the MIT Haystack Observatory . ... Demonstrations of difx or ancillary program usage (users/developers) . ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... Its expansion inн cludes, handling of the High Resolution Mirror Assembly (HRMA) Xнray Detection System (HXDS) stage dither and the fiveнaxis mount (FAM) attachment point movements, correction of misalignments of the mirror mount relative to Xнray calibration facility (XRCF) and to the default FAM axes, as well as solution of sky aspect o#sets of flight, etc. ... Pixlib data flow and system configuration. ...