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 (after Otto von Littrow), is a retro-reflecting, dispersing prism...

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

20°00′N 31°00′E / 20.0°N 31.0°E / 20.0; 31.0 Taurus–Littrow is a lunar valley located on the near side at the coordinates 20°00′N 31°00′E / 20.0°N...

Littrow is a lunar impact crater that is located in the northeastern part of the Moon's near side, on the east edge of Mare Serenitatis. Its diameter...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Serenitatis in the midst of a rille system named the Rimae Littrow after the crater Littrow to the east. It is roughly circular and cup-shaped, with a...

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...

south-southeast is the crater Fabbroni, and to the northeast is Littrow. North of Ching-Te is the Rimae Littrow rille system as well as the crater Clerke. Between...

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...

Shocked norite found in the Taurus-Littrow valley on the moon during the Apollo 17 mission (sample 78236)....

Augusta – Auguste von Littrow (1819–1890), author, and champion of women's rights; wife of Austrian astronomer Carl Ludwig von Littrow DMP · 254 255 Oppavia...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Triangle) in 1934. The asterism was remarked upon by Joseph Johann von Littrow, who described it as the "conspicuous triangle" in the text of his atlas...