The second part of the book comprises 14 reviews of scientific achievements during its twenty years of visitor mode operations. The first part of the book has 10 thorough reviews of the conception, design and build of the telescope, as well as accounts of some its key instruments such as IRCAM (the common-user infrared camera), CGS4 (the fourth Cooled Grating Spectrometer) and the Wide Field Camera. The volume comprises 31 professional level papers. These are the proceedings of an international meeting hosted by the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the dedication of the UKIRT, the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope. Thirty years of astronomical discovery with UKIRTÄavies, John Robson, Ian The Scientific Achievement of the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope Results to be presented include the first true high resolution images at IR wavelengths of the entire Orion nebula Several imaging modes are possible including staring, chopping and a high-speed snapshot mode. The camera, called IRCAM 1, employs the 62 x 58 InSb DRO array from SBRC in an otherwise general purpose system which is briefly described. Results from the commissioning of the first infrared camera on UKIRT (the world's largest IR telescope) are presented. Recent advances in focal plane array technology have made an immense impact on infrared astronomy. International Nuclear Information System (INIS) Results from the first stage of the debris campaign will be presented.
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In addition, UKIRT will be used to acquire broadband photometric imaging at GEO with the Wide Field Camera (WFCAM) for studying known objects of interest as well as collecting data in survey-mode to discover new targets. Infrared spectroscopy is ideal for constraining the material types, albedos and sizes of debris targets, and potentially gaining insight into reddening effects caused by space weathering. UKIRT has several instruments available to obtain low-resolution spectroscopy in both the near-IR and the mid/far-IR. An unprecedented one-third of this telescopes time has been allocated to collect orbital debris data for NASAs ODPO over a 2-year period. At nearly 14,000-feet and above the atmospheric inversion layer, this is one of the premier astronomical sites in the world and is an ideal setting for an infrared telescope. UKIRT is a 3.8m telescope located on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii. Access to the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope ( UKIRT) will extend our spectral coverage into the near- (0.8-5 micron) and mid- to far- infrared (8-25 micron) regime. With a fast-tracking dome, a suite of visible wide-band filters, and a time-delay integration (TDI) capable camera, MCAT is capable of multiple observing modes ranging from tracking cataloged debris targets to surveying the overall debris environment. Ascension Island is located in the South Atlantic Ocean, offering longitudinal sky coverage not afforded by the Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) network.
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The Meter Class Autonomous Telescope (MCAT) is a 1.3m optical telescope designed to track objects in orbits ranging from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO).
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NASAs Orbital Debris Program Office (ODPO) will break ground on Ascension Island in 2014 to build the newest optical (0.30 1.06 microns) ground-based telescope asset dedicated to the study of orbital debris. NASA's Newest Orbital Debris Ground-based Telescope Assets: MCAT and UKIRT