... System . By using software standards provided by most computer manufactures, ESO-MIDAS runs on VMS and OpenVMS systems (Trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation) =, a large variety of UNIX (Trademark of AT ) platform, as well as one personal computers (386, 486, Pentium) running Linux. ... IBM/AIX RS/6000 systems; . ... The full MIDAS system requires of the order of 20 Mbyte of disk storage if shared libraries ( e.g. SUN, PC/Linux) are available, otherwise up to 100 Mbyte may be needed. ...

... Chapter 4: Solar System Targets > 4.2 Target Identification . ... The following information is required to identify and classify each target. ... For example, separate targets should be defined if you plan to take spectra of several different surface features on a planet, or if you plan to observe the same feature with different timing constraints. ... Description . PLANET . If the target is the center of a planet, enter PLANET followed by its name (e.g., PLANET JUPITER , PLANET SATURN ). ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... New IRAF tools for the photometric calibration of optical/IR images are presented. The new tools are standard star catalog and world coordinate driven, requiring both accurate standard star catalog coordinate and accurate image coordinate data. Network access to standard star catalog servers is supported. ... The photometric calibration software will automatically convert the standard star coordinates from the standard star coordinate system to the image coordinate system. ...

... Required qualifications: BS in Electronics Engineering. ... Required qualifications: BS in Electronics Engineering or Electronics Technology field with three to five years experience in operation, calibration and maintenance of high-voltage equipment or equivalent combination. Supervisory experience required. ... Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, with more than five but less than seven years experience or equivalent combination. ...

... Binary large object. ... CGI is a popular interface used to create server-based web applications with languages such as Perl or C. A web browser, such as Netscape Navigator. ... Core JavaScript contains a core set of objects, such as Array , Date , and Math , and a core set of language elements such as operators, control structures, and statements. ... A JavaScript primitive value is a member of one of the following types: undefined , null , Boolean , number , or string . ... World Wide Web . ...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

... SMIS ] . noise temperature of the low noise amplifier less than 100 K . automatic frequency and polarization adjustment of the received signal . double transform of frequency . power supply: single phase, 220 V, 50 Hz . power consumption: less than 30 Wt . the unit measures: 470 x 300 x 130 mm . weight: less than 10 kg . ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

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. ...

... Posts tagged ?standard processing? ... Tags: ADC , astro catalogs , Cast , CDF-S , Chandra , datasets , HEASARC , Penn State , reduced , standard processing , W3Browse . Category: Astro , Data Processing , Misc | ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

... Standard magnitudes can only be computed for the U, B and V filters and hence the only standard colours that can be calculated are U-B, B-V and U-V. An important point to note, is that these standard colours can be computed using the following instrumental colours - U-B, B-V, U-V, (UVW1-U), (UVW1-B), (UVW1-V), (UVW2-B) and (UVW2-V). ... The program loops through these colours and if the relevant instrumental magnitudes are present computes the standard magnitudes and standard colour. ...

NCR 53CF94, 53CF96 FLYER INFORMATION The NCR 53CF94 and 53CF96 Fast SCSI Controllers are high-performance CMOS devices conforming to ANSI standards X3.131-1986 (SCSI-1) and X3.131-199X (SCSI-2) for the Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI). ... The NCR 53CF94 and 53CF96 feature 10 megabytes per second (MB/s) Fast SCSI-2 data transfers, improved single-ended SCSI operation, a 24-bit transfer counter, and enhanced SCSI-2 command functionality. ...

... AstroImageJ (AIJ) .. ... Reads and writes FITS images with standard headers . ... Provides a time and coordinate converter tool with capability to update/enhance FITS header content (AIRMASS, BJD, etc.) ... Creates color images and with native ImageJ processing power . ... AstroImageJ_Updater . Update operation now updates AIJ version number in Info.plist CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString (MacOSX only) . ... AstroImageJ is ImageJ with astronomy plugins and macros installed. ...

... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... MeadeтАЩs new LX70 Series offers high-quality German equatorially mounted telescopes with slow-motion controls and heavy-duty steel tripods. ... For crisp wide-field observing and imaging, few optical designs match the performance of a true triple-element apochromatic refractor. ... Meade Standard Field Tripod #07020. ...

spectrum1d - compute auto- [and cross- ] spectra from one [or two] timeseries. spectrum1d [ x [ y ] file ] -S segment _ size ] [ -C ] [ -D dt ] [ -N name _ stem ] [ -V ] [ -W ] [ -bi [ s ][ n ] ] [ -bo [ s ] ] spectrum1d reads X [and Y] values from the first [and second] columns on standard input [or x [ y ] file ]. ... Units same as ypower. name _ stem .npower Power spectral density of the noise output. Units same as ypower. name _ stem .gain Gain spectrum, or modulus of the transfer function. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Parameterization of the Solar Radiation Pressure model for GPS satellites I. S. Gayazov Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia The treatment of solar radiation pressure (SRP) effect until now is the main problem in precise modeling of GPS satellite orbits. ... In practice, however, all seven parameters of the empirical model cannot be confidently determined from phase observations. ... Bar­Sever Y. E. A new model for GPS yaw attitude. ...

... xntpd is an operating system daemon which sets and maintains the system time-of-day in synchronism with Internet standard time servers. xntpd is a complete implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) version 3, as defined by RFC-1305, but also retains compatibility with version 1 and 2 servers as defined by RFC- 1059 and RFC-1119, respectively. xntpd does all computations in 64-bit fixed point arithmetic and requires no floating point support. ... Specify the name and path of the log file. ...

... Re-implement the Raw2Raw, using the same OCA rules of point 1 and making use of real and virtual products 3. ... Virtual products Point 2 requires to create the virtual products in the DB: a virtual product is a pipeline product that would be generated if the pipeline was run with a given set of input files, e.g. a master bias or a master flat. ... It will then look into the provenance table for the raw files that went into that product and repeat the OCA evaluation until no raw files are found. ...

This note outlines how to configure the computers needed to run DIMMWIT. ... dimmwit : ICE (single-board computer in a box) that runs the Starlight Express CCD camera, to which it is connected by a USB interface. dimmwithost : displays the finder application via the X protocol (finder actually runs on dimmwit). Acts as a file server; both the finder software and the DIMM data are stored on dimmwithost. ... mkdir -p /data/oberon/data/finder . chown coast:coast /data/oberon/data/finder . ...

... Using UNIX System Calls and Library Functions . ... To use system calls and library functions in a C program we simply call the appropriate C function. Examples of standard library functions we have met include the higher level I/O functions -- fprintf() , malloc() .. ... For most system calls and library functions we have to include an appropriate header file. e.g. stdio.h, math.h . ... Information on nearly all system calls and library functions is available in manual pages. ...