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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. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

General Information (These links are currently under revision) . ... NIC-FPS - Near Infrared Camera/Fabry-Perot Spectrometer (coming 2004) . ... Photos of Current ARC Instruments . ... These documents are provided to give users the information needed regarding instrument design, performance and operation to plan and carry out observations. While every effort is made to keep information on this site current, instrument performance does vary continuously with time and environmental conditions. ...

... Gallery . ... Remains of dewars and small instruments fromтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: Remains of dewars and small instruments from the drawing office. Description: NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ... Remains of dewars and small instruments from the drawing office. NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ...

... JWST . ... The Birth Of Stars And Protoplanetary Systems . ... JWST Instruments . Instrument Module . ... The Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) forms the scientific heart of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and is being developed at the Goddard Space Flight Center . ... It consists of four science instruments, guider, and nine key subsystems that are shared by each of the science instruments. ... The cold portion of the ISIM is integrated with the Optical Telescope Element (OTE). ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Meade Instruments Corp. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... The commissioning of the FORS2 multi-mode astronomical instrument at KUEYEN , the second FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph at the ESO Very Large Telescope, was successfully finished today. ... FORS2 is now ready to be handed over to the astronomers on April 1, 2000. ... Additional information about the VLT Data Flow System is available in ESO PR 10/99 . ... ESO Press Photo 05a/00 . Preview; JPEG: 400 x 452; 52k] . ... This is the caption to ESO PR Photos 05a-c/00 . ...

General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

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Next: The Transmission Gratings Up: The Instruments Previous: The Instruments . ... A conventional cross-grid charge detector reads out the photo-induced charge cloud and the electronics determine an arrival time to 16s, and the position with a resolution of about 18 m or 0.37 arcsec. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Space Research, in collaboration with Lincoln Laboratories, developed the detector system and manufactured the CCDs; Lockheed-Martin integrated the instrument. ...

QC1 Database User's Guide: . general . ... QC1 browser . ... QC1 database: User's guide . This is the User's guide for the interfaces to the QC1 Database maintained by QC Garching. ... an interface for browsing the content of a QC1 database table . an interface for plotting the content of a QC1 database table. They all connect to the QC1 database containing Quality Control information about the VLT instruments. ... The QC1 database contains a set of tables per instrument. ... table . ...

CCD chips and Сameras. ... The -90C, TE cooling cameras with CCD. ... EEV CCD chips and Cameras [ Product guide ]. ... DA