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    X-ray and gamma ray telescopes refrain from focusing completely and use coded aperture masks: the patterns of the shadow the mask creates can be reconstructed...
    41 KB (3,925 words) - 14:00, 27 September 2024
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    Coded apertures or coded-aperture masks are grids, gratings, or other patterns of materials opaque to various wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation...
    7 KB (750 words) - 17:42, 7 September 2024
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    Space Variable Objects Monitor (category Space telescopes)
    near real time image and rate triggers. The trigger system of the coded-mask telescope ECLAIRs onboard SVOM images the sky in the 4-120 keV energy range...
    14 KB (1,407 words) - 01:35, 4 October 2024
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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. As the largest telescope in space, it is equipped with...
    213 KB (19,829 words) - 16:04, 3 October 2024
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    INTEGRAL (category Space telescopes)
    few at most). Imaging is achieved by coded masks casting a shadowgram onto pixelised cameras; the tungsten masks were provided by the University of Valencia...
    19 KB (1,889 words) - 13:16, 14 August 2024
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    the line passes exactly through the middle of the "X", the telescope is in focus and the mask can be removed. Cheong, Kang Hao; Koh, Jin Ming; Tan, Joel...
    12 KB (1,181 words) - 04:28, 5 October 2024
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    Subaru Telescope (すばる望遠鏡, Subaru Bōenkyō) is the 8.2-metre (320 in) telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea...
    17 KB (1,857 words) - 15:27, 24 June 2024
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    observatory with two telescopes at an elevation of 4,145 meters (13,600 ft) near the summit of Mauna Kea in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Both telescopes have 10 m (33 ft)...
    17 KB (1,921 words) - 22:53, 23 September 2024
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    wide-field, rapid-slew ground-based telescopes can catch the GRB with this information. The BAT uses a coded-aperture mask of 52,000 randomly placed 5 mm (0...
    34 KB (4,072 words) - 23:45, 22 July 2024
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    BeppoSAX (category Space telescopes)
    of 0.1 to 300 keV (16 to 48,000 attojoules (aJ)). The WFC contained two coded aperture cameras operating in the 2 to 30 keV (320 to 4,800 aJ) range and...
    16 KB (1,602 words) - 21:43, 25 April 2024
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    The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) is an optical telescope for astronomy located on 10,700-foot (3,300 m) Mount Graham, in the Pinaleno Mountains of...
    21 KB (2,123 words) - 15:24, 6 September 2024
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    An X-ray telescope (XRT) is a telescope that is designed to observe remote objects in the X-ray spectrum. X-rays are absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere...
    26 KB (3,140 words) - 18:38, 22 June 2024
  • THESEUS (category Gamma-ray telescopes)
    ray Imaging Spectrometer (XGIS), sensitive to 2 keV-20 MeV, is a set of coded-mask cameras using monolithic X-gamma ray detectors based on bars of silicon...
    10 KB (562 words) - 20:50, 9 May 2024
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    "Boomerang Nebula" in 1980 after observing it with the Anglo-Australian telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory. Unable to view it with great clarity...
    8 KB (734 words) - 04:49, 7 October 2024
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    AstroSat (category Space telescopes)
    imaging in hard x-rays. The CZTI will be fitted with a two dimensional coded mask, for imaging purposes. The sky brightness distribution will be obtained...
    31 KB (3,049 words) - 14:06, 17 July 2024
  • The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS1; obs. code: F51 and Pan-STARRS2 obs. code: F52) located at Haleakala Observatory...
    36 KB (3,236 words) - 22:01, 23 July 2024
  • High-Resolution Channel, a feature of the Hubble Space Telescope that has light suppression options to mask out bright astronomical sources Hitachi Remote Copy...
    3 KB (392 words) - 21:01, 29 January 2024
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    Granat (category Space telescopes)
    the association of a coded mask and a position sensitive detector based on the Anger camera principle. The ART-P X-ray telescope was the responsibility...
    19 KB (1,808 words) - 18:15, 18 August 2024
  • slope fits of the wavefront deviations revealed using a Hartmann mask. The telescope also now sports a state-of-the art, cryogenic wide-field mosaic CCD...
    45 KB (4,190 words) - 19:53, 22 September 2024
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    Great Observatories program (category Spitzer Space Telescope)
    frequencies to Compton. INTEGRAL uses a fundamentally different telescope technology, coded-aperture masks. Thus, its capabilities are complementary to Compton and...
    30 KB (3,579 words) - 03:39, 13 October 2024
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