国立天文台や東京大学の研究者を含む国際共同研究チームは、くじら座の方向の約 108 億年前の宇宙で 11 ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a tightly packed cluster of supermassive black holes dating back 10.8 ...

自然科学研究機構国立天文台ハワイ観測所が運用する 口径 8.2 メートルの光学赤外線望遠鏡です。

MDP とは、Mask Design Program の略である。このページは、MDP を用いて mask の pre-design を行う際の how-to をまとめたものである。 MDP は本来、FOCAS の pre-image 画像を用いて詳細なマスクデザインを ...

There are two MESSIA fibers connecting the OBCP computer at the computer room and the FOCAS in the dome. Computer room <- optical fiber -> IR stand-by room Computer room <- optical fiber -> Telescope ...

When you click on the COMICS observation planning JAVA applet you should see the following screen pop up on your browser (make sure you have set "JAVA enabled"). In this first tab (Target), you supply ...

The readout sequence of the COMICS detectors (320x240 pixels^2) implies that the readout noise in each of 16 channels (20x240 pixels^2) should be more or less identical. Therefore it should be ...

N.B. In a nutshell, you type all the necessary information to carry out a single observation sequence in the spaces provided in each of the five tabs (Target, Telescope, COMICS, Sequence, Comments), ...