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unusual facts about Reflector



1999 LE31

Lincoln Laboratory (1.0-m f/2.15 reflector + CCD) - location of discovery

ATS-6

The antenna feeds (in C, S, L, UHF and VHF bands) were placed on the spacecraft body, facing the antenna reflector, and linked to the antenna and the solar panels masts by a carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) truss.

Bruce Day

Day replaced bassist Bud Cockrell of Pablo Cruise in 1977, and stayed with the band until 1981 before the Reflector album was recorded.

Cassegrain

Laurent Cassegrain, a Catholic priest and teacher and probably the inventor of the Cassegrain Reflector

DM Lyrae

Observers at Kyoto University carried out V band CCD photometry with the 60 cm reflector and detected superhumps of 0.1 mag amplitude, thus reclassifying DM Lyrae as an SU UMa star.

Elektronika 7

All the street and wall clocks were based on a kit by the "Reflector" factory in Saratov and many remain in use at administrative and industrial premises in Russia.

Lunar Laser Ranging experiment

Carroll Alley (previous principal investigator of Apollo's reflector experiment)

On the May 24, 2010 episode of The Big Bang Theory, "The Lunar Excitation," the characters bounce a laser off the reflector on the moon.

Micromorph

The intermediate reflector is a layer (IRL) of Zinc oxide (ZnO intermediate reflector: ZIR) or Silicon oxide (SiOx intermediate reflector: SOIR) between the top and the bottom cell.

Microsoft NetMeeting

It used the H.323 protocol for videoconferencing, and was interoperable with OpenH323-based clients such as Ekiga, and Internet Locator Service (ILS) as reflector.

Moto Guzzi Le Mans

The second production run, known as the Series 2 and totaling around 4,000 bikes, used a De Tomaso-designed rectangular taillight/reflector and modified rear guard.

Neutron reflector

To obtain a 30 year life span, the SSTAR nuclear reactor design calls for a moveable neutron reflector to be placed over the column of fuel.

Ralph Copeland

Copeland discovered thirty-five NGC objects, most of them with Lord Rosse's 72" reflector. Planetary nebulae were found by visual spectroscopy at Dun Echt and during an Andes expedition. Seven of the galaxies in the constellation Leo form the famous "Copeland Septet": NGC 3745, 3746, 3748, 3750, 3751, 3753, and 3754.

RECCO

In 1975 John Lawton, the developer of the Skadi avalanche transceiver, proposed that a reflector could be put on a lift ticket.

Rembrandt lighting

It can be achieved using one light and a reflector, or two lights, and is popular because it is capable of producing images which appear both natural and compelling with a minimum of equipment.

Solar cooker

A Scheffler cooker (named after its inventor, Wolfgang Scheffler) uses a large ideally paraboloidal reflector which is rotated around an axis that is parallel with the earth's using a mechanical mechanism, turning at 15 degrees per hour to compensate for the earth's rotation.

Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing

In the late 1990s there was a joint project of Tbilaviamsheni and the Georgian Space Constructions' Institute to design and produce the space antenna-reflector which were successful used in their first attempt on Russian space station "MIR".

University of London Observatory

The Observatory was opened on 8 October 1929 by the then Astronomer Royal Frank Watson Dyson, initially to house the 24-inch reflector from Dr W.E. Wilson's observatory at Daramona, Ireland, which was donated to the University of London after his death.

Vassar College Observatory

It is tied with the Austin-Fellows telescope of the Stull Observatory at Alfred University for being the 2nd-largest optical telescope in the state of New York, the largest being the 40-inch reflector at SUNY Oneonta College Observatory.

Whitin Observatory

The facilities include a 24-inch Boller and Chivens reflector with a CCD and retrofitted with a DFM control system, a 12" Fitz/Clark refractor, a 6" Alvan Clark refractor, a Hale Spectrohelioscope, and six Meade 8" SCTs.


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