Sentences with phrase «field view of the sky»

This wide - field view of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

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The VISTA telescope, located in Chile, has a wide field of view and extremely sensitive detectors that make it the world's largest telescope dedicated to mapping the sky.

At the project's website, DiskDetective.org, users make classifications by viewing ten - second videos of data from NASA surveys, including the Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer mission (WISE) and Two - Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) projects.

Kepler's field of view covers 100 square degrees, around 0.25 percent of the sky, or as Koch puts it, «about two scoops of the Big Dipper.»

«It has a very large field of view to quickly map the sky and great sensitivity, enabling us to look at very faint stars.

With its huge corrected field of view and specially designed 256 - megapixel camera, OmegaCAM, the VST can produce deep images of large areas of sky quickly, leaving the much larger telescopes — like ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT)-- to explore the details of individual objects.

Second, it does not just capture sky images; it also gauges the distance to many of the objects — a million galaxies and 100,000 quasars so far — that pass through its field of view, providing a unique three - dimensional perspective on deep space.

Their field of view, in the constellation Draco, encompassed about one - millionth of the whole sky.

So Jewitt and Luu carried out two parallel surveys: they used the Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescope equipped with conventional glass photographic plates to scan large areas of the sky for the very faintest objects, while also watching a narrow field of view in the plane of the planets for rare but slightly brighter objects using MIT's 1.3 - metre telescope fitted with a CCD.

Combined with the LSST's special three - mirror design, which offers an exceptionally wide field of view, this camera will enable researchers to study the fundamental properties of dark energy and dark matter and take snapshots of objects that quickly change or move against the backdrop of the sky, including exploding stars and near - Earth asteroids.

Still, that area of research could yield results in the coming decades by «searching very wide fields - of - view with many beams on the sky,» Siemion says.

SST can search an area larger than the continental United States in seconds and survey the entire geosynchronous belt within its field of view — one quarter of the sky — multiple times in one night.

Early risers will already be aware that there's currently a lot of planetary activity in the morning sky, but at dawn in Western Europe on Monday, 2 April, Mars and Saturn will be just 1 1/4 degrees apart and seen in the same field of view of telescopes at 30x magnification.

The gamma - ray data from the strongest source in the sky, the Crab Nebula / Pulsar, in the 1 steredian field - of - view of LXeGRIT for more than 10 hours, are being analyzed to verify the response as Compton imager and polarimeter.

Kepler focuses on one region of sky, viewing fields again and again, looking for subtle changes in the light output of stars.

Each of the four cameras has a field - of - view of 24 ° × 24 °, and the fields of the four cameras are adjacent so that TESS will instantaneously observe a 24 ° × 96 ° swath of the sky (referred to as an observation sector).

Or take to the sky for a panoramic view of molten lava burning and oozing over black lava fields.

A number of paintings on view feature broad bands of horizontal color, sensitively and economically rendered, which evoke both Color Field and the shifting hues of the forest sky at dawn or dusk.

Much of his later work reveals two complementary sides of his artistic personality — from exuberant views of sunlit fields and atmospheric skies to more introspective meditations on the profound depths of nature.

The downwelling version has a narrow field of view for measuring sky temperature and detecting clouds.