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The Chinese Plate-Digitizing Project has digitized a total number of about 30,000 astronomical plates from 11 telescopes of five observatories (SHAO, NAOC, PMO, YNAO, and QDO) in China, spanning nearly 100 years of observations. In this…

The Nan\c{c}ay Decameter Array (NDA), which has now passed 40 years old, acquires daily observations of Jovian and Solar low frequency radio emissions over a continuous spectrum ranging from 10 up to 100MHz, forming the largest database of…

A collaboration between the W. M. Keck Observatory (WMKO) in Hawaii and the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) in California, the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) was commissioned in 2004 to archive observing data from WMKO, which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 H. D. Tran , J. Holt , R. W. Goodrich , J. A. Mader , M. Swain , A. C. Laity , M. Kong , C. R. Gelino , G. B. Berriman

Information on archives from the 1950s of 15 astronomical observatories is provided beginning with a list of correspondence and other information related to astronomy of the Copenhagen University Observatory in the 1950s. The Appendix…

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Upgrades at the 2.3 meter Wyoming Infrared Observatory telescope have provided the capability for fully-remote operations by a single operator from the University of Wyoming campus. A line-of-sight 300 Megabit/s 11 GHz radio link provides…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Joseph R. Findlay , Henry A. Kobulnicky , James S. Weger , Gerald A. Bucher , Marvin C. Perry , Adam D. Myers , Michael J. Pierce , Conrad Vogel

The Wide Field Imager (WFI) is one of two instruments for the Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics (Athena). In this paper we summarise three of the many key science objectives for the WFI - the formation and growth of…

We give an overview of the Grism Lens Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS), a large Hubble Space Telescope program aimed at obtaining grism spectroscopy of the fields of ten massive clusters of galaxies at redshift z=0.308-0.686, including…

China has systematically collected nighttime astronomical plates since 1900, creating a large historical dataset that has been digitized with optical scanners. For astrometric registration of these digitized plates, sources were first…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Quanfeng Xu , Zhengjun Shang , Shiyin Shen , Yong Yu , Meiting Yang , Hao Luo , Zhenghong Tang , Jing Yang , Jianhai Zhao

Solid state spectroscopy continues to be an important source of information on the mineralogical composition and physical properties of dust grains both in space and on planetary surfaces. With only a few exceptions, artificially produced…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-16 Cornelia Jäger , Thomas Posch , Harald Mutschke , Simon Zeidler , Akemi Tamanai , Bernard L. de Vries

We describe the design and performance of the hardware system at the Bleien Observatory. The system is designed to deliver a map of the Galaxy for studying the foreground contamination of low-redshift (z=0.13--0.43) H$_{\rm I}$ intensity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Chihway Chang , Christian Monstein , Joel Akeret , Sebastian Seehars , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Adrian Glauser , Bruno Stuber

Long-baseline interferometry at optical and near-infrared wavelengths is an emerging technology which is quickly becoming a useful tool to investigate stellar atmospheres and to compare observations with models. Stellar atmosphere models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Markus Wittkowski

The Waltz Spectrograph is a fiber-fed high-resolution \'echelle spectrograph for the 72 cm Waltz Telescope at the Landessternwarte, Heidelberg. It uses a 31.6 lines/mm 63.5$^{\circ}$ blaze angle \'echelle grating in white-pupil…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 M. Tala , P. Heeren , M. Grill , R. J. Harris , J. Stürmer , C. Schwab , T. Gutcke , S. Reffert , A. Quirrenbach , W. Seifert , H. Mandel , L. Geuer , L. Schäffner , G. Thimm , U. Seemann , J. Tietz , K. Wagner

We present the Gallery of Planetary Nebula Spectra now available at http://oit.williams.edu/nebulae The website offers high-quality, moderate resolution (~7-10 A FWHM) spectra of 128 Galactic planetary nebulae from 3600-9600 A, obtained by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Karen B. Kwitter , Richard B. C. Henry

We present a library of Utrecht echelle spectrograph (UES) observations of a sample of F, G, K and M field dwarf stars covering the spectral range from 4800 AA to 10600 AA with a resolution of 55000. These spectra include some of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 D. Montes , E. L. Martin

ATUS, the Astronomical Telescope of the University of Stuttgart, is a fully remote-controlled 0.6 m f/8.17 Ritchey-Chr\'etien telescope optimized for high-cadence, high-fidelity photometry of transient sources. Observations are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Karsten Schindler , Jürgen Wolf , Alfred Krabbe

We describe the Munich Difference Imaging Analysis pipeline that we developed and implemented in the framework of the Astro-WISE package to automatically measure high precision light curves of a large number of stellar objects using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Koppenhoefer , R. P. Saglia , A. Riffeser

The UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST) of the Anglo-Australian Observatory completed a narrow-band H-alpha plus [NII] 6548, 6584A survey of the Southern Galactic Plane and Magellanic Clouds in late 2003. The survey, which was the last UKST…

We introduce PIRATE, a new remotely-operable telescope facility for use in research and education, constructed from 'off-the-shelf' hardware, operated by The Open University. We focus on the PIRATE Mark 1 operational phase where PIRATE was…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Holmes , U. Kolb , C. A. Haswell , V. Burwitz , R. J. Lucas , J. Rodriguez , S. M. Rolfe , J. Rostron , J. Barker

We announce the public release of 141,531 moderate-dispersion optical spectra of 72,247 objects acquired over the past 25 years with the FAST Spectrograph on the Fred L. Whipple Observatory 1.5-meter Tillinghast telescope. We describe the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 Jessica Mink , Warren R. Brown , Igor V. Chilingarian , Daniel Fabricant , Michael J. Kurtz , Sean Moran , Jaehyon Rhee , Susan Tokarz , William F. Wyatt

Since early 2015 a new radial velocity monitoring campaign is going on at the University Observatory Jena. The aim of this project is to obtain current radial velocity measurements of selected single-lined spectroscopic binary systems, to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-18 R. Bischoff , M. Mugrauer , T. Zehe , D. Wöckel , A. Pannicke , O. Lux , D. Wagner , T. Heyne , C. Adam , R. Neuhäuser