A near-infrared view of the Uranus system.
An image intensifying tube placed at the f/10 Cassegrain focus of an 88-in. reflector telescope was used together with a narrow filter centered at the 8870-A methane band to obtain near-infrared photographs of Uranus and its satellites. Good images of Uranus were obtained with a 1-min exposure, whil...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:19730026689 2023-05-15T18:22:12+02:00 A near-infrared view of the Uranus system. Sinton, W. M. Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available Nov 1, 1972 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19730026689 unknown http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19730026689 Accession ID: 73A11491 Copyright Other Sources 30 Sky and Telescope; 44; Nov. 197 1972 ftnasantrs 2012-02-15T11:22:52Z An image intensifying tube placed at the f/10 Cassegrain focus of an 88-in. reflector telescope was used together with a narrow filter centered at the 8870-A methane band to obtain near-infrared photographs of Uranus and its satellites. Good images of Uranus were obtained with a 1-min exposure, while the faintest satellite Miranda was well recorded in about one hour. The short-exposure photograph of Uranus shows that the limb is brighter than the center of the disk and brightest at the south pole. The explanation for the brightening of the limb and pole seems to be haze in the planet's upper atmosphere. Other/Unknown Material South pole NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) South Pole |
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An image intensifying tube placed at the f/10 Cassegrain focus of an 88-in. reflector telescope was used together with a narrow filter centered at the 8870-A methane band to obtain near-infrared photographs of Uranus and its satellites. Good images of Uranus were obtained with a 1-min exposure, while the faintest satellite Miranda was well recorded in about one hour. The short-exposure photograph of Uranus shows that the limb is brighter than the center of the disk and brightest at the south pole. The explanation for the brightening of the limb and pole seems to be haze in the planet's upper atmosphere. |
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A near-infrared view of the Uranus system. |
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A near-infrared view of the Uranus system. |
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A near-infrared view of the Uranus system. |
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A near-infrared view of the Uranus system. |
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near-infrared view of the uranus system. |
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