... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

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Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...

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... insbs instrument=<instr> ra=<ra> dec=<dec> apos=<apos> bstoolsout=true|false . ... Given the viewing direction of the star tracker in terms of Right Ascension and Declination of the boresight + astronomical position angle insbs computes the viewing direction of the instrument specified via the instrument parameter - result is written to stdout in verbose form (default) or as a strbs command line if bstoolsout =true. ...

Home | ... Fisica Sanitaria | ... Amber SPG . ... The near-infrared / red focal instrument of the VLTI, called AMBER will operate between 1 and 2.5 µm in a first phase (2001-2003) with two UTs. This instrument has been designed for three beams to be able to perform images through phase closure techniques. ... The instrument has been designed to be used with two or three beams, thus enabling also the use of closure phase techniques. ... AMBER VLTI focal instrument home page . ... Simone Busoni . ...

... Most of us are aware that next generation instruments, with Terabyte databases, are going to present enormous challenges to the way that we process data, and our current ways of managing astronomical databases will probably no longer work. ... The Working Group on Astronomical Data (WGAD) has two key roles: to act as a communication channel between the IAU and CODATA (ICSU Committee on Scientific Data), and to provide a forum for discussion of data issues. ...