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XmTel is intended for interactive remote telescope operation. ... The command set provides for several basic functions that enable slewing, pointing, fine guiding, and control of the telescope focus, reticle, and fans. ... XmTel is actively being used and developed with the Celestron Corrected Dall-Kirkham C20 telescope. ... Some NexStar features of the C20 -- the fan, temperature reading, and focus control -- are not presently available on other Celestron telescopes. ...

Next: stecf.impol - Package Tasks Up: stecf.impol - an IRAF Previous: stecf.impol - an IRAF . All the instrumental set-up, such as filters, polarizers, rotation angles, etc. are read from the image headers. Many input images ( 3 < N < 64) can be processed. ... Output images can be rebinned to increase the polarization signal-to-noise per output pixel. ... Output error images have fully propagated statistical errors from the input error images. ...

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... Normalisation to exposure and effective area o Log (erg/cm2/s) 3C 454a Log (E,MeV) 2 = 11.8/9 2 = 7.8/9 2 = 2.6/9 2 = 5.6/9 He, H 2 = 18.2 BPL 2 = 16.7 3C 454A 3C 454a : significant correlation: hardness - brightness Marginally significant anticorrelation: optical depthbrightness FSRQs with breaks BL Lacs , HSP FSRQs without breaks BL Lacs with breaks (Low energy synchrotron peak) 3C 66a 2: 35 11 31 objects 0.94 0.31 1.52 0.89 1.05 0.44 1. ...