WFC3 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Wide Field Camera 3 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 2: WFC3 Instrument Description > 2.3 Spectral Elements . ... 2.3.1 The Filter Selection Process . ... Both WFC3 channels are equipped with a broad selection of spectral elements. ... The UVIS channel has a selectable optical filter assembly (SOFA) that contains a stack of 12 filter wheels housing a total of 48 elements: 42 full-frame filters, 5 quad filters, and 1 UV grism. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System Instruction Manual . ... Remove the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System from the telescope or camera. Use the supplied hex wrench to remove the three screws from the telescope side of the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System. Position your Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System to align with the diagram below. ... Carefully screw each filter into the wheel, and re-assemble the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System. ...

The Agile window provides complete control over the Agile high-speed photometer. ... All other parameters are specified as part of the command that starts an exposure sequence. ... To connect the filter wheel controller, issue this command in the command bar at the bottom of the Log window: agile connDev fw . ... To home the filter wheel controller, issue this command in the command bar at the bottom of the Log window: agile fwhome (there must be a filter wheel mounted in Agile for homing to succeed). ...

... Special problems arise with filters intended to measure red leaks in blue and ultraviolet filters. ... The column named REDLEAK contains an 8-character string that specifies the treatment of red leaks in short-wavelength filters. Possible values are 'MEASURED' if the red leak is measured by observations through a filter that isolates the leak; 'BLOCKED' if a copper-sulfate or other blocking filter is used; or 'IGNORED' if the leak is neither measured nor blocked. ...

The Planewave Instruments 20-inch (0.5-meter) f/6.8 corrected Dall-Kirkham telescope at Moore Observatory in Kentucky and its identical companion at Mt. ... The CDK20 North at Moore Observatory has been our primary platform for developing technology for remote and robotic operation in the Shared Skies program. ... g'r'z'i' filter wheel . ... Axis quad video server to send realtime video to the remote observer . ... Telescope monitor camera in the dome also on the video server . ...

... The STECF IRAF layered package impol provides five tasks specifically aimed at reduction of HST imaging polarimetry data for ACS, FOC, NICMOS and WFPC2. ... Reduction of HST polarimetry data and simulation of raw polarimetry images, together with polarization vector plotting, are covered. ... hstpolsim -- Produce simulated polarization input data frames for HST instruments from images of the total signal, the linear polarization and the position angle of the polarization vectors. ...

This library currently provides subroutines used to transform theoretical spectra to intermediate and broad-band photometric indices. ... Typical tasks are the response functions and transmission curves for various filters, mirrors and photomultiplier windows. ... The response is zero outside the given wavelength range. ... real . input . Wavelength in nanometres . PHOT_1P21 . ... PHOT_AIR . ... PHOT_ALUM . ... Inputs must be valid as for PHOT_FILTER, PHOT_AIR, PHOT_ALUM and PHOT_1P21. ...

... The facility allows researchers and students to study spectral photometry, quantitative spectral analysis, inverse problem solving methods, to measure reflectance spectra and scattering phase functions of solid materials related to planetary science. Powerful solid-state laser facility. ... The facility will allow to study physical aspects of powerful laser system design, to simulate impact processes in the Solar System, to carry out research on the interaction of laser radiation with matter. ...

... BOM2 and the basic block of solar limbograph including pointing and control systems ? ... Fine tracking platform (FTP) for Sun tracking by the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... Tracking system frequency ? ... Controller of the control system and solar fine tracking of the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... The basic relative construction of the elements and instrumental blocks of the "Astrometria" space experiment is shown on the block diagram of units within the complex of SL-200 solar...

... 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. ...

NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... Visitor Center . ... Optical . Lidar . At Arecibo we have a variety of optical instruments that we use to study terrestrial airglow emissions. ... This equipment is located in our Optical Laboratory, which is on site about 1000 feet from the center of the incoherent scatter radar. ... The various observational modes that are available are described in supplementary documentation for the Arecibo Observatory Optical Laboratories. ...

... I have compiled a list of throughput filter curves from a variety of telescopes, instruments, and surveys. Click on the name of the filter to download it. The first line of each filter is the zeropoint for that filter. If the filter is in the AB system, it is listed as 0.0 (or in otherwords -48.55). ... Filter . Effective Wavelength . ... A_V . ... 0.987 . ... 0.050 . ...

... This test ODF contains three exposures, each with a different configuration of the instruments. ... In the second exposure EPIC PN is in primeLargeWindowCentral mode with the thick filter, EPIC MOS is in PrimePartialW2 mode with the thick filter, and RFC is high time resolution mode (HTR) with only CCD 5. In the third exposure EPIC PN is in FastModeTiming mode with the thin filter, EPIC MOS is in FastModeUncompressed with the thin filter, and RFC is in HTR mode with all CCDs. ...

A 2GHz Digital Filterbank Correlator Dick Ferris, CSIRO ATNF, John Bunton, CSIRO Telecommunications & Industrial Physics, & Bruno Stuber, Fachhochschule Solothurn Nordwestschweiz Abstract The combination of traditional polyphase filter architecture with a new multiplier-rich FPGA family provides the means to build wideband (GHz), flexible and high dynamic range filterbanks and FX correlators using a small number of commodity ICs. ... This is exactly the bottom channel of the DFT.) ...

... Обзор LPR фильтра. Впечатления от наблюдений с LPR фильтром. ... Характеристики цветных фильтров Baader-Planetarium . Мой перевод pdf- файла о фильтрах с сайта Baader-Planetarium (379 кб) . ...

... Several HST instruments both current and decommisioned have provided imaging linear polarimetry capabilities. ... The STECF IRAF layered package impol provides five tasks specifically aimed at reduction of HST imaging polarimetry data. ... Reduction of HST polarimetry data and simulation of raw polarimetry images, together with polarization vector plotting, are covered. ... For reduction of data from imaging linear polarization instruments other than from HST, the instrument name is `SPECIAL'. ...

... Parameters . Filters . ... Direct images . ... The SCORPIO-2 project: . Spectral Camera with Optical Reducer for Photometric and Interferometric Observations - 2 . The broad-band glass filters made in SAO RAS are used for the observation in the Johnson-Cousins (UBVRI) photometric system in the direct images mode. The glass filters transmission curves are shown by solid line. ... The filters transmission curves of the `comets' filters measured with the SCORPIO-2 in the F/4 beam. ...

... Note on Filters: . ... NGC 3351 is a mostly face-on late type spiral galaxy. It is marked by a bar like feature in its central regions and a strong inner ring of star formation. ... The galaxy was imaged through the A1,B1 and B5 filters over a total exposure time of 1936 seconds. ... The galaxy was imaged through the A1 filter for 450 seconds and the B1 filter for 1084 seconds. ... The galaxy was imaged through the A1 and V1 filters over a total exposure time of 1200 seconds. ...

... Second, the observatory can control the configuration, test data analysis procedures, and provide calibration solutions with the help of instrument models. This paper presents the VLT object-oriented framework for the development of ETCs (Exposure Time Calculators) and data simulators. ... Instrument simulations are being developed for the purpose of predictive calibration, instrument configuration control, and evaluation of data analysis procedures. ...

... Resolution - 1.5-2.0 km . Swath - 450 km . ... Swath - 550 km . ... Resolution - 370 km . ... Spectral bands - 0.6-0.7 um; 0.8-1.1 um . ... Kondor - system for collection and transmission of data from sea and ice stations . ... Downlinking to ground stations (main centers) . ... Satellite's information system operates in both direct transmission mode and recording to on-board recorder mode with later downlink to ground station. ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...