Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:46 PM
Subject: 2009/08/27_JEM-EF (JEF) observations
2009/08/27 JEM-EF (JEF) observations
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http://www.cloudynights.com/ub…37-ISS-JEF_20090830bs.jpg
Observing and lighting angle enabled visibility of some of the
instruments mounted on the Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility.
At the right we see an enlargement of the JEF from the image at left.
Closest to the JEM(Kibo)mounted is the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI)
(delivered by JAXA).
This is a set of highly sensitive X-ray slit cameras for the monitoring
of more than 1000 X-ray sources in space over an energy band range
of 0.5 to 30 keV.
The instrument visible mounted on the outside is the ICS, the Inter-orbit
Communication System, the Kibo-specific communications system for
uplinking and downlinking data, images and voice between Kibo and
the Mission Control Center at Tsukuba Space Center by way of
Japan's own relay satellite, the Data Relay Test Satellite, or DRTS.
Imagery: 10inch Newtonian, manually tracked)
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Ralf Vandebergh
