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... Even with today's advances in networking, file system capacities and CD technology it is often necessary to transport and store scientific data sets on magnetic tape. The FITS data format standard contains guidelines on how to write FITS files to magnetic tape but does not address the problem of indexing or organizing tape files. ... 8--16 GB per 4mm tape). ... This paper presents a convention for writing self-describing magnetic tapes that contain FITS formatted data files. ...

Next: Examples of Setup Files Up: Setup Files Previous: Setup Files Contents . Over 200 standard setup files have been created, covering many of the normal modes of observing. ... These especially include precisely defined, and somewhat complex cases like the Mark III standard modes (although MarkIII went the way of the dinosaur long ago. ... v '' files: . These are setup files for VLBI observations using VLBA recording formats. ... These are setup files for Mark III observations. ...

... List of SAS threads . This thread contains a (very!) simple standard XSPEC session for fitting data from the X-ray cameras. ... Start XSPEC . ... Load spectrum data: . ... response 1 PN.rmf . ... plot data . Fig.1: XSPEC data plot . Ignore bad channels in data: . ... The latter, the maximum number of channels to bu summed. plot data with model adjustment and e.g. the residuals (alternatives, ratio data/model, absolute chi-squared, etc) . ... Fig.2: XSPEC data, model and residual plot . ...

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... map8bittorf - convert an 8bit map to a sun raster file (ao) map8bittorf -c numcols -r numrows . map8bittorf is a filter to convert an 8 bit map to a sun raster file. The input is taken from the standard input and the output is written to standard output. The the input map size should be numcols columns (number of horizontal pixels) by numrows rows (number of vertical pixels). ... The number of horizontal pixels in the input map. -r numrows . ... This will not work for 1 bit data. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Optical Interferometry . OIFITS: A Data Exchange Standard for Optical (Visible/IR) Interferometry . ... OIFITS is a standard for exchanging calibrated, time-averaged data from astronomical optical interferometers , based on the FITS Standard (OIFITS is a registered FITS convention ). ... The OIFITS standard is used in the biennial optical interferometry Imaging Beauty Contests: . ... A data exchange standard for optical (visible/IR) interferometry. ...

... HST . ... Home . ... Data . ... Hubble Heritage Project . ... Science Blog . ... WFPC2 Home . ... Data Analysis . Data Analysis Home . Data Analysis Library . ... Instrument Handbook . Data Handbook . STANs . ... Note on PHOTFLAM values for WFPC2 . ... As of April 18, 1996, WFPC2 headers from dithered data processed through the HST pipeline will correctly reflect the pointing at the time of each observation. ... Note that the same table appears on pg.510 of the HST Data Handbook, V2.0. ...

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... The total number of codepoints allowed in the document character set of this SGML declaration includes the first 17 planes of [ISO10646] (17 times 65536). ... CHARSET BASESET ISO Registration Number 177//CHARSET ISO /IEC 10646-1:1993 UCS-4 with implementation level 3//ESC 2/5 2/15 4/6 DESCSET 0 9 UNUSED 9 2 9 11 2 UNUSED 13 1 13 14 18 UNUSED 32 95 32 127 1 UNUSED 128 32 UNUSED 160 55136 160 55296 2048 UNUSED -- SURROGATES -- 57344 1056768 57344 CAPACITY ...

Below is a list of all of the modules that come as part of the Apache distribution. ... mod_setenvif Apache 1.3 and up . ... mod_unique_id Apache 1.3 and up . ... Determining document types using file extensions . ... mod_rewrite Apache 1.2 and up . ... User authentication using text files . ... User authentication using DBM files . ... User authentication using Berkeley DB files . mod_auth_anon Apache 1.1 and up . ... User-configurable logging replacement for mod_log_common . ...

... For this purpose, catalog entries for stars within 12њx6њ region centered at 12h 20m right ascension and 33њ declination were examined. ... In Figure 1, the distribution in Johnson V magnitude of all Tycho catalog entries for stars within 12њx6њ region centered at 12h 20m right ascension and 33њ declination is plotted . ... Figure 1 : Distribution of magnitude in Johnson V. This is for the 510 stars from the Tycho catalog in a 12њx6њ area in the center of the northern survey region. ...

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... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2002 > vo2002 . ... ESO Data . ... Virtual Observatory Tools . ... A virtual observatory (VO) is a collection of interoperating data archives and software tools which utilize the internet to form a scientific research environment in which astronomical research programs can be conducted. ... Firstly, there is an explosion in the size of astronomical data sets delivered by new large facilities. ...

... Hour of right ascension (alpha, h), B1950.0 6. ... Degree of declination (delta, deg), B1950.0 9. ... Unsertainty in Delta(delta), arcsec --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Year alpha delta alpha delta Unsertainties N month B1950.0 B1950.0 J2000.0 J2000.0 D(alpha) D(delta) sat day h m s deg ' '' h m s deg ' '' cos(delta) with decimals arcsec arcsec --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

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... AAS 225 . ... Here are a few features of the tweets from the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society . ... The retweet numbers are close to the values that Twitter has for the tweets, which means that I can't have messed up too much (I wouldn't expect perfect agreement since Twitter does not guarantee that any search will return all matching tweets; also, the Twitter values are updated whereas mine are fixed until the next set of tweets gets analyzed). The most re-tweeted accounts. ...