Mike Lampton's Web Site
email: mlampton at berkeley dot edu
Space Sciences Home Page
Lawrence Berkeley Lab Home Page
DESI Home Page
Stellar Software Home Page
FUEGO Home Page
About Space Sciences Lab (.PPT)
a current photo of myself
Space Telescope Project
A Critique of the Offner Spectrograph - v2 (.pdf)
Double Doublet Magnifiers-v4 (.pdf)
Double Doublet-v4 files (.zip)
Offner Spectrograph v1 (.pdf)
Offner Spectrograph v1 files (.zip)
Spectrograph Prisms v15 (.pdf)
Magnifiers and Turret
Spot Size Measures (.pdf)
Telecentric Flat Field Illumination (.pdf)
Five Contributors to Spot Size (.pdf)
SpotSize-v10.py
Magnifier Trade (.xlsx)
Disperser Trade (.xlsx)
Three Apochromatic Magnifiers - v6(.pdf)
Double Petzval Optics for Spectroscopy v16(.pdf)
FlatFieldIlumination (.pptx)
Reflective Magnifiers - v4(.pdf)
Impact of Non-Chief-Ray-Normal Images -v1(.xlsx)
Single-shot Actuators (.xlsx)
Telescope Mark 12 Final Daewook Kim Nov 2021 (.pdf)
Flip Mirror Concepts (.pdf)
ToricSurfaces-v2 (.pdf)
Offner Double Prism Spectrograph v1(.pdf)
Thermal Emission from the STP Primary Mirror v1(.pdf)
Cold Stops for Spectroscopy rev1(.pdf)
Packing Spectra onto a Detector rev6 (.pdf)
Packing Spectra onto a Detector files (.zip)
Distorted Spectra in IFU Spectrographs v3(.pdf)
Diffraction from Round and Square Lenslets v3(.pdf)
Prisms for Bent Spectrographs v13 (.pdf)
Front End Optics for the Supernova Spectrograph v3 (.pdf)
Tungsten Lamps for Continuum Calibration v7(.pdf)
Spectrograph Parts and Suppliers -Rev32(.xlsx)
Straight-Through Prisms for Spectroscopy rev4(.pdf)
Off Axis Mirrors as Collimators v1(.pdf)
Off-Axis Parabolic Mirrors as Field Magnifiers-v12(.pdf)
Flat-Field Illuminator Concepts-v4(.pdf)
Wavefront-Shack-Hartmann Sensors v.1(.pdf)
Waveferont-Differential OTF Sensors v.2(.pdf)
Wavefront Curvature Sensors v.3(.pdf)
42 Slice Spectrometer v.1(.pdf)
PSF Statistics with Noisy Images v.14 (.pdf)
Spacecraft Attitude Control Dynamic Model (.pdf)
Point Spread Function Metrics (.xlsx)
Wavefront Error Evaluation (.pdf)
Wavefront Sensors for Astronomy(.pdf)
Tight Focus Tolerances (.pdf)
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
DESI End-to-End Optical Simulator in Python (.pdf)
Focus and Alignment without Zernikes(.pdf)
Photo Album of DESI Assembly and Checkout(.pdf)
Point Spread Function Accuracy writeup (.pdf)
Point Spread Function Accuracy Python Code (.zip)
Guider Centroid Accuracy writeup (.pdf)
Guider Centroid Accuracy files (.zip)
Bias, Dark, Flat Frames for CCD/CMOS Calibration (.pdf)
Commissioning DESI Optical Distortions, v6, writeup (.pdf)
Commissioning DESI Optical Distortions, v6, files (.zip)
Star Centroid Statistics with Noise (.pdf)
DESI Optical Metrology, v9 (.pdf)
Modelling Corrector Distortion v5 (.pdf)
DESI Metrology using the Fiber View Camera v4 (.pdf)
Python and data files for Corrector Distortion v5 (.zip)
MultiProfile.jar
C2_ClearAperture (.pdf)
DESI: Signal to noise ratio with fibers (.pdf)
Midspatial Frequency Errors (.pdf)
FUEGO Wildfire System
OrbitMapper example graphic(.pdf)
OrbitMapper source code (.py)
Natural Disaster Count, 1980-2017 (.pdf)
FUEGO Mission Comparo Talk (.pdf)
FUEGO Mission Comparo Worksheet (.xlsx)
Airborne FUEGO (.pptx)
Airborne Microbolometer Arrays (.pdf)
FUEGO Concept 10Dec2013 (.pptx)
Microbolometer Arrays for Fire Detection (.pdf)
FUEGO: Fire Urgency Estimation from Geosynchronous Orbit
US Patent 9792500 Pennypacker et al.
Science and Engineering
Planck Law Derivation (.pdf)
Doomsday: Two Flaws (.pdf) arXiv
Doomsday: Simpson's Second Question (.pdf)
Information-driven Societies and Fermi's Paradox
Galactic Coordinate Transformations (.pdf)
Sky-to-FocalPlane writeup (.pdf)
Sky-to-FocalPlane files (.zip)
Apochromatic Doublet Magnifiers v3 (.pdf)
Parts list and suppliers for SNSE demonstrator (.xlsx)
Focus and Alignment Without Zernikes (.pdf)
Isolated Dual H-Bridge Motor Driver (.pdf)
Stepper Motor Translation Stage Roundup (.zip)
Arduino for Smooth-Stepping Motors (.pdf)
Cantilever Bimetal Thermal Actuator (.xlsx)
SNSE OAP Magnifier v2(.pdf)
SNSE OAP Magnifier Files v1(.zip)
Pupil Mirrors Drawing 200610a (.pdf)
Slicer Mirrors Drawing 200612b (.pdf)
Magnifier Mirrors Drawing 200612e (.pdf)
SNSE Mission Optical Design(.pdf)
Wide Field Magellan Corrector (.pdf)
Various Spectrometers (.pdf)
Accelerated Charge Paradox (.pdf)
Retrograde Notion (.pdf)
EUV Astronomy at Bowyer's 80th (.pdf)
Three-Mirror Off-Axis Anastigmats for CMB Surveys.pdf
Confocal Heat Pump Violates Second Law (.pdf)
Lampton ATLAS-1 (.pdf)
Lampton ATLAS-1 (.ppt)
Korsch Four Configurations (.pdf)
Dark Energy (.pdf)
Lampton et al Off-Axis Telescopes (.pdf)
Lampton et al Off-Axis Telescopes (.ppt)
Lampton et al Heliopause 304 Spectrometer Poster(.pdf)
Lampton et al Heliopause 304 Spectrometer SPIE (.pdf)
Gruntman et al Heliopause 304 Spectrometer SPIE (.pdf)
Lampton, Scientific American Nov 1981 (.pdf)
Lampton, US Patent 3965354, Resistive Anode (.pdf)
Lampton, US Patent 4395636, Wedge & Strip (.pdf)
Payload Specialist Astronaut Photos: STS-9, STS-25, STS-45
Official NASA Payload Specialist Photo
NASA Payload Specialist closeup
STS-9 Wikipedia
STS-9 Spacelab-1 Science Crew
STS-45 Wikipedia
ATLAS-1 Payload Crew in Aft Flight Deck
ATLAS-1 Payload Crew in Module
ATLAS-1 Payload Specialists with autographs
Dark Energy Space Mission Development
WFIRST-A concept from: Levi,M., et al., 217th AAS 433.03 (2011)
Artwork by Robin E. Lafever LBNL
Levi et al, WFIRST Science Yield (.pdf) arXiv 1105.0959
WFIRST Sensor Package Part I (.pdf)
WFIRST Sensor Package Part II (.pdf)
WFIRST Focal Plane (.pdf)
WFIRST Cryo Flatness (.pdf)
Lampton et al, Unobscured...SPIE 7731-52 (.pdf)
Lampton & Sholl, Comparison... SPIE 6687-23 (.pdf)
Lampton & Sholl, Comparison... SPIE 6687-23 (.ppt)
AAS 2007 Telescope Poster (.pdf)
AAS 2006 Telescope Poster (.pdf)
Cosmological Comoving Distance (.pdf)
Proc.SPIE v.5899 (27-38) 2005 (.pdf)
Proc.SPIE v.5487 (73-80) 2004 (.pdf)
Proc.SPIE v.5166 (113-123) 2003 (.pdf)
Proc.SPIE v.4849 (215-226) 2002 (.pdf)
Star Counts (.PPT)
Secroun,A., et al Star Guider 2001 (.pdf)
Windows XP Blue Screen of Death (.txt)
Gemini Secondary Mirror (.PPT)
SEVIRI Scan Mirror (.PPT)
Why silver? (.pdf)
Integrating Sphere (.pdf)
Failure Rate and Confidence (.PPT)
Fisher Matrix Framework (.PPT)
Fitting Gaussians (.pdf)
Fitting Gaussians and Donuts (.pdf)
Signal to Noise Ratio Note (.pdf)
Signal to Noise Ratio Worksheet (.xlsx)
Some useful code....
BEAM FOUR optical ray tracer rev 221c (.zip)
BEAM FOUR optical ray tracer rev 232 (.zip)
Intercept9(.py)
Coordinate Break Remover for optics files rev 5 (.zip)
MatrixOps.java
Tiny12.py: A Tiny Python Optical Ray Tracer
Ray Tracer RT224 Mark-11 Study (.zip)
Guiding With Galaxies v2 (.pdf)
Apodizaton of Telescope Pupils (.pdf)
Python: Cropped Images with Parent Coordinates (.pdf)
Grating Equation (.py)
Grating Equation (.png)
BrightnessTheorem (.py)
BrightnessTheorem (.png)
Wrapper for SciPy curve_fit() parameter arrays (.py)
Julian Date Time to/from Greenwich Date Time (.py)
BEAM FOUR Release 222, experimental (.jar)
BEAM FOUR Guide 208 (.pdf)
BEAM FOUR Release 208 Demo Files(.zip)
BEAM FOUR Release 195 (.jar)
BEAM FOUR Release 195d (.jar)
Tables and Python code for Zernikes (.pdf)
Why Refractive Index Approaching? (.pdf)
Estimating Mean Time to Failure (.pdf)
Python FITS File Demo (.zip)
Hexagonal Grids (.pdf)
Hyperbolic Lens (.pdf)
Numpy Misnomer: unravel (.txt)
Python Misnomer: print (.txt)
Python Optical Ray Tracer Writeup (.pdf)
Python Optical Ray Tracer Files (.zip)
Zernike Viewer (.py)
Oblique surface plotter (.py)
Timekeeping and Julian Date Methods (.py)
Oblique surface plot example (.png)
ArrayPlot utility demo (.java)
Random Numbers for Spreadsheets
Lampton, Levenberg-Marquardt Strategies (.pdf)
Levenberg Marquardt exponential fit demo (.py)
Levenberg Marquardt Rosenbrock solver demo (.py)
Levenberg Marquardt Gauss 1D fit demo (.py)
Levenberg Marquardt Gauss 2D fit demo (.py)
Integration Notes (.txt)
Simpson integration demo (.java)
Romberg integration demo (.java)
Nonuniform integration demo (.java)
Runnable Java Version Tester (.jar)
Complex Class Demo (.java)
Buffered Image Demo (.java)
SNAP alignment game (.java)
Circuit Symbols (.ppt)
MikesTextTableEditor (.jar 36kB ready-to-run)
MikesTextTableEditor (.java 41kB source code)
TextEditor from Codecall Java Forum (.jar)
Creating jagged edges in Powerpoint (.pdf)
Straighten photos using GIMP (.txt)
Roughly 300 papers on astronomy and space physics
Link to ADS Harvard "Lampton"
A few papers on space projects, detectors, electronics, math....
Apollo Soyuz EUVT Final Report 1978 (.pdf)
Versatile Pulse Amplifier (.pdf)
Corsica and Florence(.pdf)
1 meter ORFEUS publications (.TXT)
1 meter ORFEUS II, Hurwitz et al (.pdf)
1 meter ARIES rocket results (.pdf)
1 meter ARIES further results (.pdf)
1 meter ARIES at White Sands (.JPG)
Lampton, Optical SETI (.pdf)
Lampton, "Ray Tracing" in Lea & Burke 1996 (.pdf)
Lampton & Raffanti, Time Digitizer (.pdf)
Low Power Neon Lamp DC-DC Converter (.pdf)
DC Split Supply v2 (.pdf)
OpAmp Photometer (.pdf)
Light Pipe Photometry (.xlsx)
Solar Integrals and Plots (.py)
Lampton & Penegor, Amplifier (.pdf)
Lampton, Timing Discriminator (.pdf)
Lampton & Marckwordt, Two Dimensional Delay Line Anode (.pdf)
Lampton & Bixler, Paralyzable Counting Systems (.pdf)
Lampton, Levenberg-Marquardt Strategies (.pdf)
Space Flight FPGAs (.zip)
Now for a bit of audio engineering....
Corrugated Duct Frequency Response (.zip)
Transmission Matrices in Electroacoustics (.pdf)
Lampton & Zukauckas Preamp Mk I (1979) (.pdf)
Lampton & Zukauckas Preamp Mk II (2020) (.pdf)
Three-Way Corner Loudspeaker (.pdf)
Wide Range Sweep Oscillator (.pdf)
Lea & Lampton Loudspeakers (.pdf)
Lampton, Program WOOF 1972(.pdf)
Waldman, WOOF77.for
Lampton, Interactive Code 1979(.pdf)
Let's not forget Hubble...
Allen Panel Report, HST (.pdf)
HST focus memo (.pdf)
Let's not forget Carl Friedrich Gauss
Portrait by Christian Albrecht Jensen (.pdf)
Let's not forget Fingal...
Fingal Partying (thank you Diane Z!)
Fingal's Cave (thank you Dick Z!)
Random Number Generator (.pdf)
Let's not forget the greatest collegiate prank of all time not involving a cow...
Wikipedia Caltech Rose Bowl Prank
Caltech Rose Bowl Famous Photo
Let's not forget Xray Astronomy
Xray Astronomy SSL (thank you Everybody!)
Let's not misspell "kluge"
Memory Aid
CHIPS Subsystem Photographs
Dual Pulse Amplifier
Stim Pulse Generator
Time-to-Digital Converter
ISUAL Instrument aboard ROCSAT-2
Orbit View Tradeoff
IMAGE-MENA Instrument Photos
MENA detector concept
MENA event positioning and timing
MENA position sensing anode front
MENA position sensing anode rear
MENA detector signal processing
MCP clamping and bias arrangement
Side view photo of MENA detector head
MENA detector showing mesh pogo
HV distribution box 1
HV distribution box 2
Mario Marckwordt in detector fab area
Mario again
Mario Marckwordt checking out detector at SSL
Mario and detector checkout station
MENA Detector Head diagram
Champ front end schematic
Champ rear end schematic
Champ output pulse waveform
MENA charge amplifier, top and bottom
MENA charge amps, oblique view
IMAGE-MENA Performance
Eric Korpela examining MCP pulses
Individual START STOP pulses, 15keV Argon
Time-of-flights, 20keV hydrogen atoms
Pulse heights, 20keV oxygen atoms
Time-of-flights, 55keV oxygen atoms
Time-of-flights, 55keV hydrogen atoms
IMAGE-FUV Team At Work
Curtis Ingraham testing DPU hardware
Steve Geller fashioning GSE code
Henry Heetderks at test bench
Jane Hoberman at Thermal Vac facility
Gilbert Hofacker in calibration lab
IMAGE-FUV Spectroscopic Imager
SI rear view w/ detectors
SI side view, 1218 camera optics
SI optics side view w/ grating
SI grating seen from collimator
SI collimator mirror
SI grating in mount
SI grating seen from collimator
SI grating seen from collimator
SI Optical train w/ grating
SI collimator attachment close-up
SI electrical interface area
SI grating clamp close-up
SI fast pulse amplifier 1
SI fast pulse amplifier 2
SI Time-to-digital converter
FUV-SI TDC, hi-res photo
SI detector with appendage vacuum pump
SI high voltage supply
SI on vibration test fixture
SI back imager
SI view from rear
SI view from above
IMAGE-FUV WIC and GEO instruments
WIC assembly photo
Prototype Geocorona sensor
IMAGE-FUV Main Electronics Package
FUV main electronics package stack
SI Time-to-digital converter
MEP Digital Processor Unit
Recipes
Mike Lampton's famous chili (.TXT)
Mike Lampton's splendid Huevos Rancheros (.TXT)
Grandma Haug's Pumpkin Pie (.TXT)
Mike Lampton's excellent Aji sauce (.TXT)
Mike Lampton's dynamite Buffalo Wings (.TXT)
Mike Lampton's Apple Cabbage (.TXT)
Mike Lampton's superb spaghetti Bolognese (.TXT)
Mike Lampton's fabulous chimichurri (.TXT)
Mike Lampton's outstanding meat loaf (.TXT)
Mike Lampton's marvellous apple-pear pie (.TXT)
Colonel Lampton's exceptional Fried Chicken(.TXT)
S.F.Chronicle's Onion Bhajis (.TXT)
Jen Lampton's cranberry oatmeal cookies (.TXT)
Beer Can Chicken (.TXT)
Mike Lampton's basic Pico de Gallo salsa(.TXT)
S.F.Chronicle's marinated bocconcini salad (.TXT)
Vertical Roast Turkey (.TXT)
Miguel Lampton's Pinchos Morunos (.TXT)
Mike Lampton's super Leg-o-Lamb (.TXT)
S.F.Chronicle's Chicken Provencal (.TXT)
World Famous MichaelBurgers (.TXT)
Wedding Guitar Gigs
Matt & Lindsay's Wedding, 111 Jennifer Lane, Alamo California 16 June 2007
Larry & Barbara's Wedding, 2130 Coastland Ave, San Jose California
Tate & Maya's Wedding, The Sea Ranch, California, 22 Sept 2012
Jim and Claire's Wedding, Botanical Gardens & Brazil Room, Berkeley California, 8 April 2013
Jen and Nate's Wedding, Wedgewood Wedding Center, Boulder Canyon, Colorado, 10 July 2015
A little music
Carulli Waltz Eminor (mp3)
Carulli Andantino Gmajor (mp3)
Sor Allegretto (mp3)
Sor Andantino Cmajor (mp3)
Sor Andante Cmajor (mp3)
Sor Larghetto (mp3)
Greensleeves (mp3)
Here Comes The Bride (mp3)
Lampton Fantasy Eminor (mp3)
Lampton Serenade (mp3)
Spanish Serenade (mp3)
Serrano Study In C (mp3)
Tientos (mp3)
Sevillana (mp3)
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