American Museum of Natural History Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100290111 | ASTROMETRY AND PHOTOMETRY WITH CORONAGRAPHS - In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an optical device comprises a telescope, a coronagraph device coupled to the telescope and having a focal plane occulting mask to provide a coronagraphic image, and a reticulate grid element arranged in a light path propagated through the telescope, at a location relative to the coronagraphic image, to create controlled fiducial spots in the coronagraphic image. | 11-18-2010 |
20080259447 | Spectroscopy of exoplanets from a ground-based telescope - In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an optical device comprises a telescope and a pipescope arranged as a spatial filter to light propagated through the telescope, to confine a field of view to θ | 10-23-2008 |
20080212219 | Astrometry and photometry with coronagraphs - In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an optical device comprises a telescope, a coronagraph device coupled to the telescope and having a focal plane occulting mask to provide a coronagraphic image, and a reticulate grid element arranged in a light path propagated through the telescope, at a location relative to the coronagraphic image, to create controlled fiducial spots in the coronagraphic image. | 09-04-2008 |