... ESO for the Public > Doing Business with ESO > Technology Transfer > Historic examples of ESO-developed technologies . ... Solar System . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Technical CCD systems . ... The original TCCD systems are now obsolescent, and have been replaced by a newer version based on a commercial controller and an ESO-developed CCD head. ... Remote Observing . ... Before the VLT era, astronomers given observing time on ESO telescopes had to travel to Chile to carry out their observations. ...

... If you use adaptsmooth to do your own science, please acknowledge its use in your publications by adding a sentence like тАЬThis work has made use of the adaptive smoothing code adaptsmooth , developed by Stefano Zibetti and available at the URL http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~zibetti/Software/ADAPTSMOOTH.html тАЭ and reference the following papers: Zibetti, S., 2009, arXiv:0911.4956 ; Zibetti S., Charlot S., Rix H., 2009, MNRAS, 400, 1181 . ...

... GPI Data Pipeline 1.0 documentation . GPI Data Pipeline Developer?s Guide . ... Credits for the GPI Pipeline Software Development . ... Patrick Ingraham developed many of the primitives, led major aspects of IFS calibration and testing, and extensively contributed to analyses and documentation. ... Schuyler Wolff developed and tested the PSF-fitting wavelength calibration algorithm, improved the Data Parser, made other pipeline improvements, and contributed significantly to this documentation. ...

XmCCD ----- The programs provided here offer a Linux graphical user interface to astronomical and scientific CCD cameras. ... It is the latest one they offer and the files included allow support for Android and Mac OS X. This distribution of XmCCD includes source code to utilize the SBIG shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface. ... The XmCCD source package includes and will install: SAOimage ds9 xpa cfitsio SAOimage is the primary image display for XmCCD. ...

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... Contacts: Evgeny A. Loupian, Dr. Sci., e-mail: evgeny@smis.iki.rssi.ru Sergey A. Bartalev, Dr. Sci., e-mail: bartalev@smis.iki.rssi.ru Web interface for burnt area mapping using Landsat data Stellar Tracker In 2013 IKI RAN together with the NPK "Electrooptics" completed the phase of the five-year research on studying the ways to build a stellar inertial navigation system (SINS) for aviation applications. ... Fig. 1 shows the SINS layout created on the basis of the astronomical camera. ... Fig.1. ...

... OF MARTIAN MISSION ELEMENTS . At present, RSC Energia has developed a conceptual configuration for the interplanetary orbiter where the crew will work during the entire interplanetary transit. ... Interplanetary expedition vehicle assembly plan has been developed. ... A program has been developed for building a series of small spacecraft based on the interplanetary vehicle concept with electrical propulsion main engines and solar arrays. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Next: Theory Up: Crowded Field Photometry Previous: Crowded Field Photometry . This chapter describes the set of commands implemented in MIDAS to do crowded field photometry on digital astronomical images. ... The package runs as a part of the data reduction system at Rome Observatory and is well known from its name: ROMAFOT. ... In this description Section gives some theoretical background about how ROMAFOT operates. ... Finally, Section gives a summary of all ROMAFOT commands. ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... The purpose of the developed scientific - educational program complex is creation on the Earth on the base of telemetry data of virtual model of microgravitational environment in which experiments are carried out, and virtual motion model of of the space vehicle. ... The developed program complex concerns to the class of the distributed program systems. ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 2005-2006 . ...

The FITS "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard defines keywords and usage that provide for the description of astronomical coordinate systems in a FITS image header. ... I: "Representations of world coordinates in FITS" , Greisen, E.W. & Calabretta, M.R. (2002), Astronomy & Astrophysics , 395 , 1061-1075. ... This diagram illustrating Bonne's projection with conformal latitude +35 was produced by WCSLIB , a C implementation of the coordinate transformations defined in the FITS WCS papers. ...