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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 07:45 PM
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Some pictures from work today






Tubular yellow.
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 08:06 PM
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1. Where's it headed?
The roof?

:shrug:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 08:27 PM
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3. To a clean room in the basement of the building you see.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 08:17 PM
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2. My dear Ptah!
Your work pictures are always so interesting!

What have you got here?

:hi:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 08:28 PM
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4. It's part of a large scientific instrument.
A one-billion pixel camera for a large telescope.

:hi:
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 08:31 PM
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5. Please don't send any pictures from that monster to me by email.
TIA

:hi:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 08:34 PM
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6. The camera will cover a one-square-degree field
Edited on Tue Apr-13-10 08:39 PM by Ptah
http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/ODI/


The camera will cover a one-square-degree field of view which
will allow ODI to capture vast areas of sky, greater than four
times the area of the full moon, in a single image. A special
detector technology called Orthogonal Transfer Array (OTA) CCD
will be used to stabilize the images. Using OTA technology, ODI
will be able to compensate for image motion due to atmospheric
turbulence, telescope shake, and tracking errors by locally shifting
the image directly within the CCD. This exciting new instrument is
scheduled to begin commissioning in fall 2010.


Edit to add:
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 08:43 PM
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8. That's a beautiful instrument. One degree is actually a pretty big chunck of sky, no?
The image stabilization system sounds very sophisticated.

It's a beautiful thing!
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 08:46 PM
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9. I am fortunate to work with people that can do this.
I like my job.
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liberaltrucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 08:39 PM
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7. PLEASE post links to pics when it's operational
And PM if I'm offline at the time.

:hi:

:pals:
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kimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 09:37 PM
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10. That is cool beyond words!!
You will post pics or point us in the right direction for them after they're available? Please??
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 09:40 PM
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11. Surprising to see it not entirely enclosed.
Even flying birds screw up and hit stuff, sometimes.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 10:25 PM
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12. nice work
:hi:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 10:27 PM
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13. Thanks, my friend.
:hi:
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 01:11 AM
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14. yikes
must feel little goosey watching it dangle on a string like that!
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