Littrow information

Littrow may refer to: Joseph Johann von Littrow (1781-1840), Austrian astronomer Littrow projection, a map projection invented by Joseph Johann Littrow...

Karl Ludwig Edler von Littrow (18 July 1811 – 16 November 1877) was an Austrian astronomer. Born in Kazan, Russian Empire, he was the son of astronomer...

In optics, a Littrow prism, or Littrow mirror, originally part of a Littrow spectrograph, is a retro-reflecting dispersing prism arranged in such a way...

Joseph Johann von Littrow (13 March 1781, Horšovský Týn (German: Bischofteinitz) – 30 November 1840, Vienna) was an Austrian astronomer. In 1837, he was...

Commonly blazed gratings are manufactured in the so-called Littrow configuration. The Littrow configuration is a special geometry in which the blaze angle...

The Littrow projection is a map projection developed by Joseph Johann von Littrow in 1833. It is the only conformal, retroazimuthal map projection. As...

Littrow expansion and its counterpart Littrow compression are optical effects associated with slitless imaging spectrographs. These effects are named...

of relatively recent volcanic activity. They therefore selected Taurus–Littrow, where formations that had been viewed and pictured from orbit were thought...

Auguste von Littrow, née Bischoff von Altenstern (13 February 1819 in Prague – 23 March 1890 in Vienna) was a German-Austrian author and women's movement...

Leo von Littrow (17 March 1860 – 11 May 1925) was an Austrian-Fiuman painter known for her landscapes and marine paintings. Leo von Littrow was born as...

of astronomer Karl L. Littrow and women's movement leader Auguste von Littrow, grandson of astronomer Joseph Johann von Littrow, both his father and grandfather...

Heinrich von Littrow (26 January 1820 in Vienna – 25 April 1895 in Abbazia, today Opatija, Croatia) was an Austrian cartographer and writer, and a convinced...

astronaut Jack Schmitt named a crater explored on the Moon in the Taurus-Littrow valley as "Shorty", after the character in the book. In March 1994, a teenager...

(with R3 = R2 ). The back of the flint glass lens is flat ( R4 = ∞ ). A Littrow doublet can produce a ghost image between R2 and R3 because the lens surfaces...

was proposed, originally in the form of "Astrois", by Joseph Johann von Littrow in 1838. The curve had a variety of names, including tetracuspid (still...

mathematician of Jewish-Austrian origin. He was a student of Joseph Johann Littrow, and the advisor of Pafnuty Chebyshev and August Davidov. He was born in...

Czerny–Turner (discussed below) Paschen-Runge Eagle Wadsworth Ebert-Fasti Littrow Pfund In the common Czerny–Turner design, the broad-band illumination source...

The achromatic telescope is a refracting telescope that uses an achromatic lens to correct for chromatic aberration. When an image passes through a lens...

crater was named after Cochise, located near the landing site in the Taurus–Littrow valley, by the astronauts of Apollo 17. Phoenix-area theme park, Legend...

the shortest route) corresponds to the direction on the map from A to B: Littrow—the only conformal retroazimuthal projection Hammer retroazimuthal—also...

the Kleist Prize in 1931 Heinrich von Littrow, Czech and Austrian poet, writer and cartographer Leo von Littrow, Fiuman Impressionist artist, a major...

Aldrovandi at center, Littrow crater at the right, and the landing site of Apollo 17 in the lower right corner in the Taurus–Littrow valley. In the center...

after the German–Austrian writer Auguste von Littrow (1819–1890), widow of astronomer Carl Ludwig von Littrow, who was a former director of the Vienna Observatory...

Challenger Apollo 17 December 7, 1972 Descent stage on lunar surface at Taurus-Littrow, ascent stage deliberately crashed into Moon LM-13  Not flown, intended...

3 site) Apollo 13 (H2) April 1970, Fra Mauro highlands Apollo 14 (H3) Littrow crater Apollo 15 (H4) Censorinus crater The last five missions were J-class...

studying the asteroid, asked the observatory's director, Karl L. Littrow, to name it. Littrow chose Elpis, a Greek personification of hope, in reference to...