Sentences with phrase «phase is the telescope»

«The next phase is the telescope commissioning,» McKinnon continued.

Not exact matches

The Large Binocular Telescope, or LBT, has the unique capability to perform this interferometry, as it is designed so that its twin telescopes can each detect light waves that are perfectly out of phase with each other.

Although implantable miniature telescopes are not a cure for macular degeneration, «FDA approval (of VisionCare's technology) will take a very desperate group of people and give them some hope,» says Lane, a principal investigator at Associated Eye Care, who implanted six devices during VisionCare's Phase I trial.

During coarse phasing, engineers point the telescope toward a bright star and use NIRCam to find any large offsets between the mirror segments (though «large» is relative, and in this case it means mere millimeters).

But a shadow hangs over the $ 1.1 billion facility: Because of a shortfall in funding, the ESO council has only approved a first phase of construction, which will produce a working telescope but with certain desired components delayed until extra funding can be found.

Through the newly invented telescope Galileo had seen many things that couldn't be explained by the dominant cosmology of the time, rooted in the idea that all things revolved around Earth: things like moons crossing the face of Jupiter, or the changing phases of Venus as sunlight caught it at different angles — an impossibility if Venus's orbit encircled Earth.

The Kepler telescope was the ideal instrument for the study of exoplanet phase variations.

The VLA Expansion Project is a two - phase program designed to improve the scientific capabilities of the VLA tenfold by replacing 1970s - vintage equipment with modern technologies and adding new radio - telescope antennas to the existing 27 - antenna array.

Two telescopes look at the same star, but the light from one telescope is put a half step out of phase with light from the other before they are combined, causing them to cancel each other out.

This object was the target of a study using ALMA during the Early Science phase, whilst the telescope was still under construction and well before the array was completed.

-LCB- The tests were performed using the instrument s... ▽ More We present the performance of the Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) of SPHERE, the high - contrast imager for the ESO VLT telescope designed to perform imaging and spectroscopy of extrasolar planets, obtained from tests performed at the Institute de Plan \ «etologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble facility during the integration phase of the instrument. -RCB-

In this phase, the telescope will be used for scientific research for the first time, even though it is still under construction.

1:20 PM Liu - Abundance Studies of Stellar Hosts of Terrestrial Planets 1:40 PM Kitiashvili - 3D Realistic Modeling of Stellar Convection as a Tool to Study Effects of Stellar Jitter on RV Measurements 2:00 PM Crossfield - Planet Densities (invited) 2:30 PM Break and Poster Viewing 3:00 PM Guyon - Coronagraphs for Planet Detection (invited) 3:30 PM Martins - Exoplanet Reflections in the era of Giant Telescopes 3:50 PM Close - Direct Detection of Exoplanets with GMT AO: A proof of concept design for a GMT Phase A ExAO planet imager 4:10 PM Direct Imaging Discussion - Led by Jared Males 5:20 PM End of meeting for the day 5:30 PM Buses depart for Monterey Bay Aquarium 6:00 PM Conference Banquet Wednesday, September 28 7:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM Lewis - JWST - ELT Synergy (invited) 9:30 AM Greene - Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with JWST 9:50 AM Morzinski - Breaking degeneracies in understanding fundamental exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss - Summary