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27 May 2015, 09:54:43 (9 years ago)
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    4444|| 08.05.2015[[BR]]'''[[span(style=color: #FF0000, Seminarraum!!)]]''' || '''Tom Herbst [[BR]]Patrick Fopp[[BR]]David Neb''' || '''The MPIA all-sky camera'''[[BR]][[BR]]Observing time is very expensive, and state of the art large telescopes are operated out of a warm, closed, and isolated control room. What happens outside is often not visible to the observer until the (very expensive) data are reduced. Cloud cover and transparency variations can spoil an astronomical measurement and make optimizing telescope usage difficult. [[BR]][[BR]]An all sky camera is the solution, giving the observer information on what is happening outside, so that he or she can react to sudden changes in weather and other conditions. Patrick Fopp, David Neb, and Tom Herbst describe the MPIA All-Sky Camera, which is currently being tested on the roof of the MPIA.[[BR]][[BR]]Talk: German[[BR]][https://svn.mpia.de/trac/gulli/att/raw-attachment/wiki/WikiStart/2015-05-08_AllSkyCamera.pdf Slides: English][[BR]]Questions: German, English ||
    4545|| 15.05.2015 || --[[BR]] || No talk (bridging day after Ascension Day) ||
    46 || '''22.05.2015''' || '''Torsten Boeker [[BR]](ESA, STScI Baltimore)''' || '''NIRSpec and JWST - the search for the first light'''[[BR]][[BR]]NIRSpec  is the Near-!InfraRed Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope and allows for the simultaneous observation of up to 100 astronomical objects. Designed and realized under the leadership of Airbus Defense and Space in Ottobrunn (Germany), NIRSpec has been completed and delivered to NASA in 2013. [[BR]][[BR]]In this talk, Torsten Boeker will give an overview of NIRSpec's opto-mechanical design and the various observing modes.  In addition, he will describe the integration of NIRSpec into the instrument module ISIM since 2013 and will summarize the results of all the completed test campaigns. Finally, an outlook with respect to the remaining activities before JWST's launch in fall 2018 will be given.[[BR]][[BR]]Talk: German[[BR]][https://svn.mpia.de/trac/gulli/att/raw-attachment/wiki/WikiStart/2015-05-22_NIRSPEC.pdf Slides: English][[BR]]Questions: German, English ||
    47 || 29.05.2015 || W. Gaessler || 4MOST ||
     46|| '''22.05.2015''' || '''Torsten Boeker [[BR]](ESA, STScI Baltimore)''' || '''NIRSpec and JWST - the search for the first light'''[[BR]][[BR]]NIRSpec  is the Near-!InfraRed Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope and allows for the simultaneous observation of up to 100 astronomical objects. Designed and realized under the leadership of Airbus Defense and Space in Ottobrunn (Germany), NIRSpec has been completed and delivered to NASA in 2013. [[BR]][[BR]]In this talk, Torsten Boeker will give an overview of NIRSpec's opto-mechanical design and the various observing modes.  In addition, he will describe the integration of NIRSpec into the instrument module ISIM since 2013 and will summarize the results of all the completed test campaigns. Finally, an outlook with respect to the remaining activities before JWST's launch in fall 2018 will be given.[[BR]][[BR]]Talk: German[[BR]][https://svn.mpia.de/trac/gulli/att/raw-attachment/wiki/WikiStart/2015-05-22_NIRSPEC1.pdf Slides: English Part1] [https://svn.mpia.de/trac/gulli/att/raw-attachment/wiki/WikiStart/2015-05-22_NIRSPEC2.pdf Part2][[BR]]Questions: German, English ||
     47|| '''29.05.2015''' || '''W. Gaessler''' || '''4MOST'''[[BR]][[BR]]"Most", more than more, even 4 times more! A demanding name. Always, it was necessary to survey a large number of objects over a large area of the sky  to understand the universe. More than 25 million of spectra from all kinds of sky objects over the full southern Hemisphere, that's the goal of 4MOST. Actually, less than the claim of the GAIA satellite mission. [[BR]][[BR]]How does this fit? What can we learn from the spectra? And how has the instrument to look like for such a task? Wolfgang Gaessler will present the answers in this talk.[[BR]][[BR]]Talk: German[[BR]][https://svn.mpia.de/trac/gulli/att/raw-attachment/wiki/WikiStart/2015-05-29_4MOST.pdf Slides: English][[BR]]Questions: German, English ||
    4848|| 05.06.2015 || -- || No talk (bridging day after Corpus Christi) ||
    4949|| 12.06.2015 || Bernhard Brandl [[BR]](Leiden Observatory) || METIS ||