... In addition to functioning as the prime instrument, the WFPC2 can be used for parallel observations. ... The central portion of the OTA F/24 beam is intercepted by a steerable pick-off mirror attached to the WFPC2, and is diverted through an open entry port into the instrument. ... Then the light falls onto a shallow-angle, four-faceted pyramid located at the aberrated OTA focus, each face of the pyramid being a concave spherical surface. ... Figure 2.2: WFPC2 Optical Configuration. ...

Static Fourier spectrometers are often used for spectral measurements of the ionosphere emissions. There are two main advantages of Fourier spectrometers (FS) - large geometric factor and high spectral resolution; these parameters are two orders better than for grating spectral instruments. ... In scanning Fourier spectrometer optical and electric modulation of signal is used to avoid this problem, for static Fourier spectrometer there are no such ways. ...

... The collecting area is increased by nesting concentric mirror pairs, all having the same focal length. ... Figure shows the largest optical element being ground at HDOS. ... X-ray testing demonstrated that the CXO mirrors are indeed the largest high-resolution X-ray optics ever made; the nominal effective area (based on the ground calibrations) is shown as a function of energy in the left panel of Figure , along with those of their Einstein and ROSAT predecessors. ...

The ESO Very Large Telescope consists of an array of four 8-meter telescopes which can work independently or in combined mode. ... In such a mount the telescope tube moves around a horizontal axis called elevation axis. ... The telescope tube itself consists of a steel structure supporting at the bottom the primary mirror (M1) in its cell, and at the top the M2 Unit by means of metallic beams called "spiders". ... The VLT can operate in either Cassegrain, Nasmyth or Coud focus. ...

... 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: . ...

Next: CCD Operation Up: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) Previous: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) . ... However it is only now that a number of important X-ray astronomical applications of CCDs have reached critical development stages, so that this is an appropriate time to review the application of space-borne CCD instruments to cosmic X-ray astronomy, and highlight the particular concerns which are being addressed for X-ray instruments, as distinct from optical applications. ...

Telescope Tip-Tilt Secondary Mirror The tip-tilt secondary mirror on the ANU 2.3 m telescope · Measures and adjusts image position at 30 Hz · Corrects image blur produced by turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere · Both the tip-tilt secondary mirror and the 2.3 m telescope were designed and constructed by RSAA ...

Next: VLT First Light Up: Front Cover Previous: Participants . VLT First Light . ... Image Quality of the VLT . ... Near IR Astronomy with the ESO VLT . Introduction and Overview . Infrared instruments for the VLT . Instrument Summary . ... Performance . ... CONICA: The high resolution near-infrared camera for the ESO VLT . Introduction . Design of Imaging Optics . Analyzing Optics . Cryo-mechanical Design . ...

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. ...

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). ...

... Orbiter . Payload of the Orbiter . ... the instruments . ... ORBITER . Index . Instrument . Mass (kg) . ARGUS . ... visible and IR mapping spectrometer . ... planetary IR Fourier spectrometer . ... mapping visible and thermal radiometer . ... mapping high-resolut. spectrophotometer . ... multichannel optical s spectrometer . ... quadrupole mass-spectrometer . ... fast omnidir. energy-mass ion analyzer . ... wave complex . ... platform for ARGUS instruments . ... MASS-MEM . ...

Beginning from the May of the 1997 we started to publish our daily solar radio observations at RATAN-600 radiotelescope. ... Periscope System: South Sector+Flat Mirror . ... It is possible to track a source by moving the secondary mirror along the arc-shaped railway tracks or to perform azimuthal 2D map synthesis . ... 1) It is possible to simultaneously carry out independent observing programs using individual sectors at various discrete azimuths and secondary mirrors on corresponding railway tracks. ...

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... Solar Space Experiments in LPI . ... The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar EUV Coronagraph (SEC), based on the Ritchey-Chretien scheme, to observe the inner and outer solar corona from 0.2 to 4 solar radii in spectral band 290-320 A . ... 2 arc. sec./pix . ... Backside-CCD 2048*2048 pix...

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... 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. ...

The 24-inch (0.6-meter) Ritchie-Chretien research telescope was manufactured by RC Optical Systems and installed in August 2006. ... Spacers are used to put the camera or other instruments at the proper position, and an encoded focus motor moves the focal plane 5 microns per encoder count. ... The telescope uses an Apogee U16M CCD camera with a 4096x4096 array of 9 micron pixels which oversample the seeing and permit very accurate photometry and imaging over a wide dynamic range. ...

... The MROI makes use of optical interferometry, much like COAST . ... As a major collaborator, the Cambridge Astrophysics Group is currently developing some of the mechanisms below, specifically the delay line and the fast tip-tilt system. ... Fringe tracking is used to control the positions of the delay line trolleys to make sure the light beams from the different telescopes in the MROI arrive at the science camera beam combiners in phase so that an interference pattern can be produced. ...

... SpectraSource's Lynxx camera contains a Texas Instrument TI241 chip and is an array of 165 x 192 pixels, each pixel is approximately 13.75 m by 16 m. The chip is housed within the camera head which is cooled by a thermoelectric cooler (TEC) to approximately 30 Celsius below the ambient temperature. ... A set of Johnson BVRI filters are used with the Lynxx, and a clear filter is used to maintain the focus on the chip when the BVRI filters are not being used. ...

... Camera (cold) going up to observing level for insertion into Telescope using the handling tool (blue). July 2007 . image: VISTA_IR_Camera_to_Telescope_2.JPG . ... Camera being moved from its stand in the lower floor of the Enclosure below the Azimuth floor, using the handling tool (blue). image: remove camera from stand.jpg . ... Camera inside the upper part of the enclosure after being lifted up to the Azimuth floor on its handling tool (blue). image: camera reaches az floor.jpg . ...