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... Table of Contents - Subject Index - Author Index - Search . Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XII . ... The Subaru Telescope Software Trinity System . ... Science Goal Driven Observing . ... SIRTF Web Based Tools for QA and Instrument Performance Monitoring . ... Monitoring the Chandra X-ray Observatory via the Wireless Internet . B. D. Spitzbart, S. J. Wolk, and R. A. Cameron . COSMOS-3: The Third Generation Telescope Control Software System of Nobeyama Radio Observatory . ...

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... While "First Light" was achieved at the second 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (UT2) ahead of schedule, UT1 produced its sharpest image so far. ... It had long been ESO's intention to provide "real" names to the four VLT Unit Telescopes, to replace the current, somewhat dry and technical designations as UT1 to UT4. ... The participants were left with the impression of mounting expectations, just four weeks before the first VLT Unit Telescope, Antu (UT1), will receive the first visiting astronomers. ...

... Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope . ... This page is devoted to the 1.5-m telescope RTT150 (150-cm Russian-Turkish Telescope, previously called AZT-22) located on mountain Bakyrlytepe in the south of Turkey. The telescope is a joint project of Kazan University Observatory (V.P.Engel'gardt Astronomical observatory) , Space Research Institute (IKI) of Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) and the National Observatory of Turkey , the latter being also responsible for the telescope technical service. ...

... The computer is set up so that the software for whatever camera is running and the switch box set to channel B. This allows the monitor and keyboard upstairs to operate the computer. Now the telescope can be set up. ... In the North west of the dome, there is a motor that turns the dome. The dome opens with a motor that pulls the slit back. ... Each camera had a specific alignment with the telescope. ... The lights on the roof provide a nice target to center in all three telescopes. ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . TELESCOPES . ... Each dome contains a telescope with many mirror segments, which combine to give a light collecting area of 10 meters (about 10 yards) across. These are currently the largest light-collecting telescopes in the world, although the European Southern Observatory is building a series of four giant telescopes in Chile which will have a larger collecting area when their light is combined. ...

Next: Column label: TELESCOP Up: File Formats Required Previous: MJD --- column . Data for all the telescopes at an observatory can be stored in a single MIDAS table file, called (by default) esotel.tbl. A standard path needs to be established for this file. ..