ATM, H-alpha Telescope, Film Magazine
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Object Details
- Manufacturer
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
- Summary
- Back-up film magazine (#5) for the H-alpha imaging telescope camera similar to one intended to be flown on the Apollo Telescope Mount for the second Skylab Mission (Catalogue #19820461000). The images of the sun as seen in the red hydrogen alpha line were also monitored by television sensors and these allowed the astronauts to locate areas of solar activity and to boresight other spectrographic instruments on interesting phenomena. The magazine was transferred from NASA to NASM in 1986.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
- Inventory Number
- A19860271000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Photographic
- Materials
- Aluminum, steel, anodized aluminum, plastic, Teflon, paint, stainless steel, rubber
- Dimensions
- Overall (with lid attached): 10 1/2 in. tall x 4 in. wide x 19 1/2 in. deep (26.7 x 10.2 x 49.5cm)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19860271000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv97d721855-4ff8-4156-a1f9-f6dafe11a6f5
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