CIMA is more than just the observing tool - in fact, the observing tool is just a part of a bigger package called the CIMA software package. ... There is also a another package called the CIMA WAPP software which contains the WAPP software, the special Tcl/Tk interpreter used by CIMA and support libraries. ... All CIMA software components recognize the following general options that are part of the CIMA version selection system: . ... The select_cima script can be used to set up a default version. ...

HST Call for Proposals and HST Primer for Cycle 24 . ... Hubble Space Telescope Primer for Cycle 24 > Chapter 6: Orbit Calculation for a Phase I Proposal > 6.1 Overview of an Observing Program . ... Definitions (HST Orbits, Orbital Visibility Periods, and Visits) . ... See Section 3.2 for details on telescope guiding. ... Lay out all the exposure and overhead times for the program into visits (described in Section 6.5 ) and add up the number of orbits from each visit to obtain the total orbit request. ...

... Observing . Observing details . ... Mike Keith has code to parse these schedules to produce a list of pulsar-specific Parkes observing. ... Please identify which observing sessions you can support and then click on "add new" on Mike's pulsar-specific schedule to add your name to the roster. ... Familiarise yourself with the current remote observing documentation listed below. ... The PPTA dashboard allows anyone to view the log from the current or any previous observing session: . ... PPTA log . ...

... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

These observations are aimed at fully charactering FORS1 photometric system (UBVRI zero-points, color-terms and extinction coefficients) for the Tektronix 2048x2048 pixel CCD (24µm px) . To this aim, the two Landolt/Stetson photometric fields SA95 and SA101 will be observed on a number of epochs and at different airmasses during February and March 2007. ... SA101 . ... OBs for SA101 have to be observed during evenigh twilight (exceptions are expected for the second half of March) . ...

... The HST uses an onboard model of its orbit to perform in real-time various control functions relating to spacecraft operations and observation support. ... New coefficients for the ephemeris are updated every other day, and are archived as FITS keywords for each HST observation data set. Using these coefficients,an observer can perform a variety of calibration and characterization calculations relating to the orbital position and velocity of the telescope. ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... O.B Slee , Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, Sydney bslee@atnf.csiro.au ----------------------------------------------------- ... ----------------------------------- 1- 8 A8 --- Name IAU name 9 A1 --- nFlag Flagged '*' or '#' 11- 12 I2 h RAh Right Ascension B1950 (hours) 14- 15 I2 min RAm Right Ascension B1950 (minutes) 17- 20 F4.1 s RAs Right Ascension B1950 (seconds) 22 A1 --- DE- Declination B1950 (sign) 23- 24 I2 deg DEd Declination ... Dulk, G.A. Slee, O.B. 1972, Aust. ...

... Classes . ... Nebula Class Reference . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getCloseViewFov (const StelCore *core=NULL) const . ... getVMagnitude (const StelCore *core, bool withExtinction=false) const . ... getSelectPriority (const StelCore *core) const . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getJ2000GalacticPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getPositionInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ...

User catalogs allow you enter positions for your objects into a file, to save time during an observing run. ... Before diving into the details, here is an example: # default coordinate system and object # (these are the standard defaults, so if you like them you can omit this line) CSys=FK5; Date =2000; RotType= Object ; RotAng=0 # some random objects # Name Pos1 (e.g. RA) Pos2 (e.g. Dec) Options in keyword-value format NGC6543 rot 90 ... Object Data . Defaults . Catalog Options . ...

... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? How to use SAS SAS Workshops SAS Version Changes Download and Install SAS Science Simulator (SciSim) . ... Is this going to be your first download of the SAS? ... Which version of the SAS do you intend to download? SAS version? RedHat 9 RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 Fedora Core 3 SuSE 8.2 SuSE 7.3 Solaris 9 Solaris 8 Mac OS X 10.4 Mac OS X 10.2 VMWare for Windows . ... How many SAS users are going to be served through your download? ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... We present a Bayesian approach to calculating the coefficients that convert the outputs of ALMA 183 GHz water-vapour radiometers into estimates of path fluctuations that can be used to correct the observed interferometric visibilities. ... Inference of Coefficients for Use in Phase Correction . ... Simulating Atmospheric Phase Errors, Phase Correction and the Impact on ALMA Science . ... Copyright 2005 -- 2016, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

... Another piece of asteroid discovery news, from Terry Moseley: "Dave Grennan from Dublin has just discovered a Main Belt asteroid from his observatory in Raheny. ... Dave's discovery comes just after Dave McDonald's find of 2008 TM9 a few weeks ago. ... This is only the third asteroid ever discovered in Ireland. ... This has been an amazing year for astronomy in Ireland, and is a superb lead-in to IYA 2009!" ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Ground Support of RadioAstron . Control and Tracking Stations . RadioAstron satellite control (command transmission, telemetry, orbit measurements) will be conducted from Evpatoria and Bear Lake control stations. ... Coarse orbit measurements will be carried out from control stations. Each measurement takes ten minutes. ... Orbit measurements at tracking stations give only radial component of spacecraft velocity but the measurements are going continuously during observing sessions. ...

... Information about a variety of different calendars for different cultures (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, Hindu etc.) ... In addition, the Chinese had two different ways of interpreting and observing celestial events. One way the Chinese used astronomy was known as lifa; it was a discipline that aimed to understand the regularities and the predictable events in the celestial system through careful, observations, measurements and records. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...

... Team . ... All the results we present were obtained with the SCORPIO instrument mounted at the 6-m telescope of SAO RAS. TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 1090 SUBJECT: GRB001109, Host Galaxy Spectroscopic Observations DATE: 01/09/08 07:28:47 GMT FROM: Vladimir Sokolov at SAO RAS <sokolov@sao.ru> . ... TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 1092 SUBJECT: GRB001109, Host Galaxy Astrometry DATE: 01/09/11 08:19:24 GMT FROM: Vladimir Sokolov at SAO RAS <sokolov@sao.ru> . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... What I See . ... Follow Ups | Post Message | ... I have observed the Double Cluster, the BeeHive cluster and other open and various Globular Clusters. My main problem with my 114mm reflector is in its inabliity to bring deep sky objects. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... The following charts/text are intended as tools for monitoring the Type Ia supernovae ( SNe ) event visually or photographically (utilizing telescope equipped CCD equipment).The files include: A replication of The Type Ia SNe , V- magnitude (with data point checks from other cited references)and color index (B-V) templete (to indicate a general color-related trend of the type Ia ... I believe this might help alleviate some of the problems involving the making of acceptable amateur light curves...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

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