The Elgeet Navitar 8mm F1. 5 super wide angle lens, attached to a slow-scan camera device that took snapshots of the sky beneath it every 10 seconds.

The prototype includes the Elgeet Navitar lens, which protruding from the bottom of the satellite.

USNO continues to maintain its dark-sky observatory, NOFS, near Flagstaff, Arizona, which also now oversees the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer.

In the early 1990s, a firm that designed and built refracting telescopes was named in his honor, Fraunhofer Systems Company, since the telescopes were based on his design but now the company is part of Burbank Optical Company.

In 1970, Ernst Leitz Canada, Ltd. ( now ELCAN Optical Technologies ) won a contract to develop and manufacture a fisheye lens projection system optimized to project an image onto a dome instead of a flat screen.

The term first appeared in print in Time magazine in October 1964 in response to Julian Stanczak's show Optical Paintings at the Martha Jackson gallery, though works which might now be described as " op art " had been produced for several years previously.

Several of the scientists responsible for the early research ( Richard Wilkinson, Ray Dakin and John Winslow ) founded Optical Disc Corporation ( now ODC Nimbus ).

It was developed and first marketed by the Optical Disc Corporation ( ODC, now ODC Nimbus ) in 1984.

Most MANs now use Synchronous Optical Network ( SONET ) or Asynchronous Transfer Mode ( ATM ) network designs, with recent designs using native Ethernet or MPLS.

* Asahi Optical Corporation, now known as Pentax Corporation

One of the first companies to offer the Dobsonian commercially was the now defunct company Coulter Optical ( now part of Murnaghan Instruments ).

The College maintains a satellite campus at the former Worcester Common Outlets, now known as City Square and in Southbridge at 5 Optical Drive.

Frieden is now an Emeritus Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona.

BelOMO or Belorusskoe Optiko-Mechanichesckoye Obyedinenie ( Belarus Optical & Mechanical Enterprise ) was founded in Minsk in 1971 in Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union, now Belarus.

Subsequently the instrument was temporarily renamed the Navy Optical Interferometer, and now permanently, the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer ( NPOI ) -- reflecting the operational maturity of the facility.

One location was free-standing at 985 Topsail Road, Mount Pearl, Newfoundland ( now home to Vogue Optical ), which closed in the late 80s – early 90s, and a Harvey's / Swiss Chalet in Corner Brook, Newfoundland.

It is now known as Optical Engineering, SPIE ’ s flagship monthly journal.

Aphex has now released the Model 204 Aural Exciter and Optical Big Bottom, yet another refinement of the original unit.

This phenomenon, known as gravity darkening or the von Zeipel effect, was confirmed for Altair by measurements made by the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer in 2001, and analyzed by Ohishi et al.

In optics, an equivalent device for the diode but with laser light would be the Optical isolator, also known as an Optical Diode, that allows light to only pass in one direction.

Optical elements designed to produce multiple scattering are thus known as diffusers.

* Optical font scaling: depending on the staff size, the design of the music font is slightly altered ; this is a feature that Donald Knuth's Computer Modern font is known for.

In computer vision the image jacobian is known as the relationship between the movement of the camera and the apparent motion of the image ( Optical Flow ).

Initially licensed, sold, and marketed as MCA DiscoVision ( also known as simply " DiscoVision ") in North America in 1978, the technology was previously referred to internally as Optical Videodisc System, Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Optical Videodisc, and Disco-Vision ( with a dash ), with the first players referring to the format as " Video Long Play ".

Optical hobbyists have been known to cannibalize the laser tube machines.

Later optical standards have been known to suffer similar problems, including a notorious batch of defective CDs manufactured by Philips-DuPont Optical in Europe during the early 1990s.

Optical disk file systems include ISO 9660 ( often known simply as " ISO ") and Universal Disk Format ( UDF ).

The organization is responsible for the operation of several important observatories, known as " AURA centers ": the Gemini Observatory ; the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ); the National Solar Observatory ( NSO ); the Space Telescope Science Institute ( STScI ); and the AURA Observatory ( AURA-O ).

The series is well known for its fast-paced gameplay and high-quality 3D visual design, along with running on the full resolution of the console the game belongs to ; as well as its association with electronica and electronic dance music, as well as its continous collaboration with certain artists ( The Chemical Brothers, Optical, FSOL, Cold Storage, Kraftwerk, Orbital, Aphex Twin and others ).

Early evidence of the shift in Hynek's opinions appeared in 1953, when Hynek wrote an article for the April 1953 issue of the Journal of the Optical Society of America titled " Unusual Aerial Phenomena ," which contained what would become perhaps Hynek's best known statement:

The telescope hosts three instruments: the 67-million pixel Wide Field Imager with a field of view as large as the full Moon, which has taken many amazing images of celestial objects ; GROND, the Gamma-Ray Burst Optical / Near-Infrared Detector, which chases the afterglows of the most powerful explosions in the Universe, known as gamma-ray bursts ; and the high-resolution spectrograph, FEROS, used to make detailed studies of stars.

A DVD recorder ( also known as a DVDR, mainly outside of the UK and Ireland ), is an optical disc recorder that uses Optical disc recording technologies to digitally record analog signal or digital signals onto blank writable DVD media.

Until November 2011, the facility was known as the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer ( NPOI ).

Optical properties are variable ; the purest form is transparent and colorless, but opaque gray or yellow deposits are also known.

Matt Quinn, better known as Optical, is a drum and bass producer and DJ from England.

Close Precision Engagement ( CPE ) and Advanced Designated Marksman ( ADM ) personnel, also known as counter-snipers, are trained on the use and employment of the M-24, M-107 and / or M-4 equipped with an Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight ( ACOG ).

Diffusive Optical Imaging ( DOI ) also known as Near Infrared Optical tomography ( NIROT ) or Diffuse Optical Tomography ( DOT ) is a technique that gives neuroscientists the ability to simultaneously obtain information about the source of neural activity as well as its time course.

Optical theory progressed in the mid-17th century with treatises written by philosopher René Descartes, which explained a variety of optical phenomena including reflection and refraction by assuming that light was emitted by objects which produced it.

Optical cards were produced by Landis + Gyr and Sodeco from Switzerland and were popular early phonecards in many countries with first optical phonecards successfully introduced in 1977 in Belgium.

Optical Transition radiation is produced by relativistic charged particles when they cross the interface of two media of different dielectric constants.

Optical elements and instruments of precision produced by John Brashear were purchased for their quality by almost every important observatory in the world.

Optical quality transparent spinel has been produced by sinter / HIP, hot pressing, and hot press / HIP operations, and it has been shown that the use of a hot isostatic press can improve its optical and physical properties.

In the 1990s, MRV produced gigabit Ethernet switching, WDM and Optical Transport for Metro and campus environments.

The Olympus C-3000 Zoom is a self-contained color digital camera system, produced by the Olympus Optical Co., Ltd ..

Optical elements produced by the means of diamond turning are used in optical assemblies in telescopes, video projectors, missile guidance systems, lasers, scientific research instruments, and numerous other systems and devices.

As a producer, Ryme Tyme's combined vision and recording techniques are highlighted by his track " We Enter " ( produced by Ryme Tyme / Optical RMXS / No U-Turn Recordings / 1999 ), along with " Payback " ( produced by Ryme Tyme / DSCI4 Records / 1999 ), " White Lightning " ( produced by Optical & Ryme Tyme / The Creeps album / Virus Recordings / 2000 ), " Abyss Remix " ( produced by Ryme Tyme & Nasis / 1210 Recordings / 2001 ) and " Lightsleeper " ( produced by Ryme Tyme, Matrix & Fierce / C4CLTD / 2002 ).

The Pentax MX was a 35 mm single-lens reflex camera produced by Asahi Optical Co, later Pentax of Japan between 1976 and 1985.

Optical Illusion a South African-based crew sampled " The Edge " in 2005 for the track " Pure Service ," produced by BATTLEKAT on their album The Offering.