Next: Analysis Tools for Nebular Emission Lines . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... The direct image is used to locate objects of interest, to find the position of the appropriate spectra in the grism image, to determine the optimal extraction technique to use, and to calibrate the wavelength range of the extracted spectra. ... Figure 1: The NICMOSlook User Interface . ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

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... user-defined data file formats . ... better integration with a user's analysis routines To add such functionality to SAOimage, we developed the XPA Messaging System that allows X programs to define points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with external programs. ... We have utilized XPA to develop "SAOimage: The Next Generation" (SAOtng), an extensible image display service that can cooperate with other processes and programs. ... SAOtng help pages . ...

Among the functions the Cluster Database supplies the tclets are usefull tool for various researches (for example, for identification of radio and of optical sources). ... Three type of object are present on the picture: . ... To place the current object under all other click on left mouse button. To remove the object click on right one. ... You can switch off/on all objects of some type by clicking on the Control window buttons: "Galaxies", "FIRST radio objects" or "NVSS radio objects". ...

XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based telescope control program based on INDI, the Instrument-Neutral Distributed Interface. ... See the files LICENSE and COPYRIGHT for the details. ... About Epoch ----------- XmTel assumes that the telescope is set to "Epoch of Date", which means that it is using ideal celestial coordinates precisely aligned today. ... XmTel assumes that target coordinates entered from the keyboard are in the Epoch that the telescope coordinates are currently displayed in. ...

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... Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17 > Glossary and Acronym List . ... ASCS : Aft Shroud Cooling System. ... CDBS : Calibration Data Base System; system for maintaining reference files and tables used to calibrate HST observation datasets. ... ICD : Interface Control Document; defines data structures used between software or systems to ensure compatibility. ... NICMOS : Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer. NIR : Near Infrared. ...

... ksnow and ktrek are simple programs to visualise points whose coordinates are in a table. ... With ktrek you can fly through these data points. ... The optional switch -bg sets the background colour of the display window, otherwise it will have the default window background colour. ... Loading the table takes some time because ksnow and ktrek scale the data. Depth . ksnow and ktrek draw the points on the screen using a perspective projection. ... Update can be used to update the display. ...

... The INTEGRAL Science Data Centre Roland Walter, Alain Aubord, Paul Bartholdi, Jurek Borkowski, Pierre Bratschi, Tomaso Contessi, Thierry Courvoisier, Davide Cremonesi, Pierre Dubath, Donnald Jennings, Peter Kretschmar, Tim Lock, St’ephane Paltani, Reiner Rohlfs and Julian Sternberg 1 INTEGRAL Science Data Centre, Chemin d' ’ Ecogia 16, CH--1290 Versoix, Switzerland Abstract. INTEGRAL is a gamma­ray observatory mission of the Eu­ ropean Space Agency to be launched in 2001. ...

... Science . ... Site Map . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Upgrade of the Paranal Astronomical Site Monitor . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Archive Facility . ... The ESO astronomical site monitor (ASM) system on Paranal has undergone a major overhaul. ... They are accessible via the Science Archive Facility Paranal ambient conditions page and a full description can be found via the help page . ...

... Interactive photometry can be done on the selected sources. ... The Main Window . Summary of Widgets . Table . delete . Regions colour . ... photometry . ... Source-List Table . ... Delete . ... Source Selection Window . ... old regions . new regions . ... Omdetect Window . ... Imaging Mode Photometry Window . ... Background Determination Controls . ... User regions . ... Delete table . ... Fast Mode Photometry Window . ... Background Regions window . ... Background regions . ...

Set the display of the status bar, tool bar, locator bar, and properties associated with the display of the pointer position in the Locator bar. ... Set fixed point . ... When the fixed point is set, and the display format is (DX, DY), (DIST), or (R, Theta) then give the location relative to the fixed point. ... Set the fixed point to (0.0, 0.0). ... DX, DY] Display the delta in X and Y of the position of the mouse relative to the fixed point, or (0, 0) if no fixed point has been selected. ...

... 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. ...

... IRIG-B available for FTT Actuators and tellbacks for FTT optics (TBD) FLC FTT /NAS GUIs: Common Requirements Capability to display and operate from: ­ ­ NMT-supplied Linux computer in the MROI control room NMT-supplied laptop in UTE Display -only mode , when controlled by ISS FTT GUI (i) Control of all FTT /NA system functions, including diagnostic functions; Live display of acquisition ...

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... In the Footsteps of Galileo - 6 February 2009 . The first public appearance of the exhibition of Irish Node for the International Year of Astronomy was welcomed at the Galway Astronomy Festival on 30 to 31 January 2009. The travelling exhibition, entitled " From Earth to the Universe " (FETTU), part of the global cornerstones of the International Year of Astronomy , displays some of the best astronomical images ever taken. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... What happens if you do a cd (change directory) to this type of directory? ... Look at this example: pwd (print the user's working directory) /usr/home/john/tmp ln -s $HOME/accounts/may fifth (use a symbolic link named fifth that points to the directory $HOME/accounts/may) ls fifth cd fifth (change directory to the new directory) pwd (print the working directory) /usr/home/john/accounts/may (the user is actually in the the directory that the linked directory points to) . ...

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