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Apollo Telescope Mount, the Glossary

The Apollo Telescope Mount, or ATM, was a crewed solar observatory that was a part of Skylab, the first American space station.^[1]

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Skylab program
Solar space observatories
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Angstrom

The angstrom is a unit of length equal to m; that is, one ten-billionth of a metre, a hundred-millionth of a centimetre, 0.1 nanometre, or 100 picometres.

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Apollo Applications Program

The Apollo Applications Program (AAP) was created as early as 1966 by NASA headquarters to develop science-based human spaceflight missions using hardware developed for the Apollo program.

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Apollo command and service module

The Apollo command and service module (CSM) was one of two principal components of the United States Apollo spacecraft, used for the Apollo program, which landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Apollo Telescope Mount and Apollo command and service module are Apollo program hardware.

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Apollo Lunar Module

The Apollo Lunar Module (LM), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit and the Moon's surface during the United States' Apollo program. Apollo Telescope Mount and Apollo Lunar Module are Apollo program hardware.

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Apollo program

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in preparing and landing the first men on the Moon from 1968 to 1972.

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Chromosphere

A chromosphere ("sphere of color") is the second layer of a star's atmosphere, located above the photosphere and below the solar transition region and corona.

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Coronagraph

A coronagraph is a telescopic attachment designed to block out the direct light from a star or other bright object so that nearby objects – which otherwise would be hidden in the object's bright glare – can be resolved.

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Coronal hole

Coronal holes are regions of the Sun's corona that emit low levels of ultraviolet and X-ray radiation compared to their surroundings.

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Electronic visual display

An electronic visual display is a display device that can display images, video, or text that is transmitted electronically.

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Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut in outer space outside a spacecraft.

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Extreme ultraviolet

Extreme ultraviolet radiation (EUV or XUV) or high-energy ultraviolet radiation is electromagnetic radiation in the part of the electromagnetic spectrum spanning wavelengths shorter than the hydrogen Lyman-alpha line from 121 nm down to the X-ray band of 10 nm.

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False color

False colors and pseudo colors respectively refers to a group of color rendering methods used to display images in colors which were recorded in the visible or non-visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Hydrogen-alpha

Hydrogen-alpha, typically shortened to H-alpha or Hα, is a deep-red visible spectral line of the hydrogen atom with a wavelength of 656.28 nm in air and 656.46 nm in vacuum.

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Instant film

Instant film is a type of photographic film that was introduced by Polaroid Corporation to produce a visible image within minutes or seconds of the photograph's exposure.

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Kapton

Kapton insulating pads for mounting electronic parts on a heat sink Kapton is a polyimide film used in flexible printed circuits (flexible electronics) and space blankets, which are used on spacecraft, satellites, and various space instruments.

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Light

Light, visible light, or visible radiation is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye.

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List of space telescopes

This list of space telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave, and radio. Apollo Telescope Mount and list of space telescopes are space telescopes, ultraviolet telescopes and x-ray telescopes.

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List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999

This list contains all spacewalks and moonwalks performed from 1965 to 1999 where an astronaut has fully or partially left a spacecraft.

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Marshall Space Flight Center

The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), located in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (Huntsville postal address), is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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Observatory

An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial, marine, or celestial events.

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Optical spectrometer

An optical spectrometer (spectrophotometer, spectrograph or spectroscope) is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically used in spectroscopic analysis to identify materials.

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Orbiting Solar Observatory

The Orbiting Solar Observatory (abbreviated OSO) Program was the name of a series of American space telescopes primarily intended to study the Sun, though they also included important non-solar experiments. Apollo Telescope Mount and Orbiting Solar Observatory are solar space observatories.

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Photographic film

Photographic film is a strip or sheet of transparent film base coated on one side with a gelatin emulsion containing microscopically small light-sensitive silver halide crystals.

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Polaroid Corporation

Polaroid Corporation was an American company best known for its instant film and cameras, which now survives as a brand for consumer electronics.

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Saturn IB

The Saturn IB(also known as the uprated Saturn I) was an American launch vehicle commissioned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the Apollo program.

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Saturn V

The Saturn V is a retired American super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA under the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon. Apollo Telescope Mount and Saturn V are Apollo program hardware.

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Skylab

Skylab was the United States' first space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. Apollo Telescope Mount and Skylab are Skylab program.

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Skylab 2

Skylab 2 (also SL-2 and SLM-1) was the first crewed mission to Skylab, the first American orbital space station. Apollo Telescope Mount and Skylab 2 are Skylab program.

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Skylab 3

Skylab 3 (also SL-3 and SLM-2) was the second crewed mission to the first American space station, Skylab. Apollo Telescope Mount and Skylab 3 are Skylab program.

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Skylab 4

Skylab 4 (also SL-4 and SLM-3) was the third crewed Skylab mission and placed the third and final crew aboard the first American space station. Apollo Telescope Mount and Skylab 4 are Skylab program.

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Solar prominence

In solar physics, a prominence, sometimes referred to as a filament, is a large plasma and magnetic field structure extending outward from the Sun's surface, often in a loop shape.

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Space station

A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains in orbit and hosts humans for extended periods of time.

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Spectroheliograph

The spectroheliograph is an instrument used in astronomy which captures a photographic image of the Sun at a single wavelength of light, a monochromatic image.

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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, also called the Udvar-Hazy Center, is the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM)'s annex at Dulles International Airport in the Chantilly area of Fairfax County, Virginia.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.

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United States Naval Research Laboratory

The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Wet workshop

A wet workshop is a space station made from a spent liquid-propellant rocket stage.

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X-ray

X-rays (or rarely, X-radiation) are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation.

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X-ray telescope

An X-ray telescope (XRT) is a telescope that is designed to observe remote objects in the X-ray spectrum. Apollo Telescope Mount and x-ray telescope are solar telescopes and x-ray telescopes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Telescope_Mount

Apollo Telescope Mount, the Glossary

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See also

Skylab program

Solar space observatories

Ultraviolet telescopes

References