... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

Introduction 1 Observatory Control and Astronomical Analysis System. ... OCAAS is a complete UNIX software package for the local and remote operation of an astronomical observatory. ... It controls all aspects of the telescope mount, CCD camera, filter wheel, focuser, weather instrumentation, power supply, GPS receiver, internet or phone line communications, dome and shutter hardware. ... 1.2 Main Control Features. ... OCAAS can perform an automatic focus procedure at any time under operator control. ...

... Procedure . ... Wind Baffle Pendant Control, located in the 2.5m enclosure. Spreader Bar for wind baffle counterweights, located behind the Machine shop. ... Wind baffle frame tied to eyebolt in floor. ... Move the inner white wind baffle counterweight from the temporary mounting blocks at the front of the wind baffle frame to the standard location at the back. ... Rig the secondary truss to the overhead crane using a large shackle and 4 long nylon straps (load capacity of 1000 Lb. each). ...

... Feger T. How to connect up to 16 GLD 20-24 Mini motor control stages to a PC by using a Ethernet Terminal Server (LANtronix) 1. ... To use this software in combination with the terminal server, a virtual COM port must be created. ... Control a stepper motor: To control an stepper motor, set the generated virtual COM port on "Port" and select the corresponding axis on "Axes" in the IPCOMM software. ... Select the first generated COM port and the corresponding axis ID, then start the control panel. ...

... It also sends commands to the trolley micro to switch between track mode and slew mode. ... Laser head (7702) Linear interferometer (7002) Retroreflector(7003) Various mirrors Beam expanders Fibre optic pickup Measurement board(2002) Datum switch(Sony SETP151) A schematic layout is shown below in Fig 1 Optical fibres connect the receiver to the measurement board and from the laser to the reference input on the measurement board. ... Reset the datum latch circuit. ...

... 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. ...

... Up: Future Instruments and Telescopes, Tools . ... UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 . ... These Tcl/Tk-based tools maintain and interact with a relational database of instrument characteristics. ... The toolkit has greatly reduced the amount of effort required from many UCO/Lick technicians, and has set new standards for quality and performance of the resulting instruments. ... This same metaphor is also being applied to instruments built for Lick Observatory. ...

... Tools . ... Version history . ... BusyFit is a stand-alone software for fitting the so-called Busy Function (Westmeier et al. ... GNU less (optional; required for help system) . ... This will unpack all files into a new sub-directory called BusyFit . ... BusyFit is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ...

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MSSSO Annual Report 1997 . ... The Duffield Heliostat was designed and constructed for the Stromlo Exploratory, and forms the central feature within the building. It produces a stationary, high-quality image of the sun, which is one of the major exhibits in the Exploratory, and was installed in time for the opening ceremony on July 26, 1997(Fig. ... The tracker module of the Heliostat is located at the top of the pier in the central area of the building, under a roll-off roof. ...

... The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. ... Information on the NTP architecture, protocol and algorithms can be found in the Further Information and Bibliography page. The Building and Installing the Distribution page presents an overview of the procedures for compiling the distribution and installing it on a typical client or server. ...

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README for XFree86 on OS/2 : Hardware and Software Requirements . ... XFree86 does not use the video services of the OS/2 operating system. ... XFree86/OS2-3.3.6 may use a local named-pipe connection or a TCP/IP based network connection. ... There are reports that with EMX 0.9 fix 4, you can also use the new 32 bit IBM TCP/IP 4.1 product. The old IBM TCP/IP 2.0, that comes with the IBM PMX product may be used with Warp as well, although it is no longer supported by IBM. ...

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. ...

European Southern Observatory La Silla Paranal Observatory HARPS Secondary Guiding 1 Poster 7739-171 2 Gerardo Ihle1, Ismo Kastinen1, Gaspare Lo Curto1, Alex Segovia1, Peter Sinclaire1, Raffaele Tomelleri gihle@eso.org, 1glocurto@eso.org, 2r.tomelleri@tomelleri.com Introduction HARPS, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher at the ESO La Silla 3.6m telescope, is dedicated to the discovery of exosolar planets and high resolution spectroscopy. ... Fig. 5a Details Fig. 5 Tip Tilt table. ...

... An OBJECT column gives the name of the object observed (usually a star name). ... In critical cases, it is common practice to measure sky on two or more positions around a target object, and these positions must be identified. ... A general treatment of this problem requires a column called OBJECT, bearing the usual name of the object (as in the star tables); a column labelled STARSKY, to distinguish between star+sky, star alone, or sky alone; and additional columns to identify the sky position. ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Description The earthbarycen task converts times expressed in the local satellite frame to Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB) at a given point on the Earth. ... The conversion of a satellite time tag to TDB requires the knowledge of the satellite's position at that time. ... In addition to the satellite position data, the time conversion algorithm in use by earthbarycen requires the barycentric vectors for the time period in question to be known a priori. ...

The Astronomy Shop . ... Software | Starry Night Pro - Astronomy Software . ... Great realism, detail, and depth of information are fully under your control. ... Designed for anyone who demands the utmost in realism, richness of detail and depth of information, Starry Night Pro is serious astronomy software. ... Starry Night Enthusiast - an intermediate level astronomy program. ... See the comparison sheet on all three levels of Starry Night astronomy programs at . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo . ... NEA Accuracy Estimation . Positions of the asteroids that have been sent by observers to the Minor Planet Center are automatically processed by means of calculation of (O-C) values with the help of the EPOS software package created at Pulkovo Observatory. ... Here attention is paid to observations of the near-Earth asteroids. This work was initiated by Dr. O.Bykov at Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory. ...

Operations in Point operations use the pointer to query sets about points, delete points in a set, and move points. In all cases where interaction is required, pressing the right mouse button with the pointer in the drawing area cancels the operation. ... Report on a point in a set . ... Press the left mouse button. ... Press Delete point with the left mouse button to activate. ... Move the pointer to the new location and press the left mouse button again to register the point's new location. ...