ACS Insturment Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Advanced Camera for Surveys Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 9: Exposure-Time Calculations > 9.1 Overview . ... 9.1.1 The ACS Exposure Time Calculator . In this chapter we explain how to use sensitivities and throughputs to determine the expected count rate from your source and how to calculate exposure times to achieve a given signal-to-noise ratio for your ACS observations taking all background contributions into account. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Published: 04 Apr 2014 . ... First data releases of the Elais-S1 and CDFS fields have just been made available. ... The zCOSMOS-bright advanced data products are now available via the Science Data Products query form of the ESO Archive . ... The Call for Proposals for observations at ESO telescopes during Period 94 (1 October 2014 - 31 March 2015) has been released. ...

Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...

... NICS will be the only infrared instrument for the first light of the TNG; as a consequence, we decided to incorporate a sufficient degree of operation flexibility by providing the instrument with six different observing modes, three aimed at imaging and three at spectroscopy: . ... It will be possible to use the narrow band filters as order sorters; this will allow to perform high resolution long-slit spectroscopy in the wavelength ranges covered by the available narrow band filters. ...

... ARC 3.5m | Instrument Summary . ... ARCES (Echelle) : the ARC Echelle spectrograph, a high resolution (R~31,500) echelle spectrograph that observes the entire wavelength range from 3200 е to 10000 in a single image on a 2048x2048 CCD. This instrument is permanently mounted at the NA1 port. ... In addition to the facility instruments, several visitor instruments have been used at the 3.5m, and some of these are available to the ARC observing community by contacting the instrument PIs: . ...

... ST-ECF, ESO, STScI and the NICMOS IDT organized a workshop on near infrared imaging from space and ground was held in Pula on May 26-27, 1998. ... The meeting was held in May 1998, about one year after science observations started with NICMOS, and about half a year before the Infrared Spectrometer and Array Camera (ISAAC) starts to operate on the VLT. Currently, it is expected that NICMOS will operate until the end of 1998. ...

HEXTE Phoswich Detector 6/19/2006 Calibration Workshop, Iceland 2006 1 HEXTE Features Aperture Modulator AGC Detector "Mu Metal" Housing 6/19/2006 Calibration Workshop, Iceland 2006 Particle Monitor 2 RXTE/HEXTE Design and Calibration · Calibration begins with instrument design. ... 6/19/2006 Calibration Workshop, Iceland 2006 7 HEXTE Calibration -- Energy Resolution All of the detectors could not be taken to the synchrotron beam for detailed calibration. ...

... 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. ...

... Staff list | ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... VLBI . ... The successful applicant will pursue a range of challenges related to low-frequency, wide-field, and astrometric radio observations at high angular resolution, with substantial scope for personal research direction. ... ASTRON operates the LOFAR and Westerbork radio telescopes and hosts the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE), which operates the European VLBI Network (EVN). ...

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 . ...

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. ...

. english || русский . Main . Location . Telescope . Instruments . Program . Science . Publications . Images . Photos . Links . The following focal instruments are currently available at the telescope: . CCD-photometer . TFOSC -- medium and low resolution spectrometer . ( The page at TUG ) . High resolution echelle-spectrometer in coude focus . High Energy Astrophysics Department 2016 IKI RAN

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. ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) MASSIVE PHOTOMETRY OF LOW-ALTITUDE ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES ON MINI-MEGATORTORA S. Karpov, 1, 3 E. Katkova,2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Davydov5 E. Ivanov,2 A. Perkov,2 V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The nine-channel Mini-MegaTORTORA (MMT-9) optical widefield monitoring system with high temporal resolution system is in operation since June 2014. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy ( Variable Stars ) 26 , No. ... Moscow 119992, Russia . ... 84/32, Moscow 117997, Russia . ... Our CCD observations compared to times of minima derived from the archival photographic plates and from the NSVS and ASAS-3 data clearly show that the orbital period of the system is variable. ... The phased light curve for the light elements . ... CCD, Moscow . ... and for the current linear light elements (in excellent agreement with the NSVS, ASAS, and our CCD observations): . ...

A new Advanced Instruments and Engineering Facility will be established on Mt Stromlo, establishing new capability for precision optics manufacture and an expanded research and development program. ... ANU has signed an agreement with commercial aerospace partner Auspace to rebuild the Near-infrared Integral-Field Spectrograph, (NIFS) for the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii. ... This first Australian instrument for the Gemini telescopes is of enormous importance to Australian science and Stromlo staff. ...

... December 21, 1997 . ... Advantages are briefly discussed of gaining in spectral resolution, which is accompanied by losses in signal level, as compared with the attempts to improve the accuracy of measurement of line parameters by means of rising the S/N ratio alone with increasing the exposure time. To partially solve the problem of observations of faint objects at the BTA a new design echelle spectrometer is proposed. high resolution spectroscopy . ...

Cameras for TDI Applications Princeton Instruments offers several rectangular format cameras that are ideal for TDI applications, which require high resolution in one direction only. This allows for a lower cost system with the same high dynamic range and performance of square format imaging arrays. ... TDI Applications Imaging of conveyor belts is a common industrial application of TDI. ... Many non-destructive inspection applications require economical high resolution Xray imaging. ...