... CIMAFITS is the name for the Arecibo FITS-file format. ... This is a list of (fairly) up-to-date documents describing CIMA and CIMAFITS: . The CIMA version history log which is the most up-to-date page listing all changes made to the different versions of CIMA . ... The CIMA user's log which chronologically lists changes made to CIMA that may be relevant to an observer. The CIMA engineering log which lists engineering changes made to CIMA that probably are of less interest to an observer. ...

... 125, 1997 Gareth Hunt and H. E. Payne, eds. WinTICS-24 Version 2.0 and PFITS--An Integrated Telescope/CCD Control Interface R. Lee Hawkins Whitin Observatory, Wel lesley Col lege David Berger and Ian Hoffman Foggy Bottom Observatory, Colgate University Abstract. ... History WinTICS is an evolution TICS-24, an integrated telescop e control system (TCS) written by Hawkins & Ratcliff (1993) for the Macintosh in Hyp erCard. ... The main WinTICS window is shown in Figure 1. ...

Slithead identification (which slithead is installed?) will be sensed and reported by the on-board spectrograph computer. ... Observer's software to handle spectrographic observations will be written by JHU and installed on the Fermilab supplied observatory workstation. ... UW will be responsible for the slithead latch-down control. ... Database computer at APO: The observer's software will query the observatory database for information on the currently installed fiber cartridge. ...

... Chapter 8: Pointings and Patterns > 8.2 Introduction to Patterns . ... Then you can create a Pattern Container (see Section 5.19 on page 88 ) in a visit, and then place your exposures in this container. ... Only one pattern is allowed within any sequence. ... PATTERN <#> [<exposure-list>] . This specifies that each exposure in <exposure-list> (or the current exposure if no <exposure-list> is provided) should be repeated at each point in a pattern of discrete pointing offsets from the target. ...

... 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. ...

... VLBI Schedule . LBA Home Page . ... Observers Wiki . ... Main / . Parkes antenna control is via a command line program called atsnap. atsnap will run a simple schedule and can take commands to stow/unstow the antenna etc. ... Attenuation is done via the "loGUI" software. The VLBI backend consists of two "LBA DAS" which sample and filter the IF and the LBADR recorder which captures the sampled data, formats it in software and writes to local or remote disk (or streams for eVLBI). ...

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... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > La Silla Facilities > La Silla Science Operations . ... La Silla News . ... Internal Pages . La Silla Science Operations Department (LSO) is part of the La Silla Paranal Observatory and is in charge of the operations of the telescopes on La Silla. ... In the La Silla Science Operation pages, you should find all the information you need for your observations from the time you have an idea of observations until when you finish processing your data. ...

Next: Computation of the Up: Typical Run Previous: Edition of the . This table is used both as an input and output by the main program. The table content is: . INPUT . Parameters relative to the absorption lines . ... OUTPUT . In output, the program will write in this table, for each absorption line, the velocity of the corresponding cloud relative to the source and its redshift (relative to the observer). A template of this table can be found in MID_CLOUD:ABSC.TBL . ...

... Classes . ... TelescopeTCP Class Reference . This TelescopeClient class can controll a telescope by communicating to a server process ("telescope server") via the "Stellarium telescope control protocol" over TCP/IP. ... TelescopeTCP (const QString &name, const QString &params, Equinox eq=EquinoxJ2000) . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getJ2000GalacticPos (const StelCore *core) const . ...

If the image header contains World Coordinate System information, SAOtng will display WCS positions as the mouse is moved across the image. The format for the display is controlled by the Coords Menu (or using the right mouse button on the screen WCS display). ... WCS information is displayed on the lower part of the image. ... The coordinates are returned in the current format, (e.g. if your image supports WCS information, you can get RA/Dec output). ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

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. ...

The Arcetri Catalog contains measures and bibliographic data for all known H2O maser sources north of declination = -30 degrees (to be observable with the Medicina radiotelescope). ... This database is fully described in Cesaroni et al. ... A statistical analysis on the atlas has been carried (Palagi et al 1993). R. Cesaroni, F. Palagi, M. Felli, M. Catarzi, G. Comoretto, S. Di Franco, C. Giovanardi, F. Palla: A Catalogue of H2O maser sources north of delta=-30 , Astronomy and Astrophysics Suppl., ...

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... 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 | ...

... Advises . Contact Advises . As an advise for amateurs we would like to underline: if it's possible, try to observe 3 asteroid positions per night and do not neglect to observe the Numbered Minor Planets in your telescope field of view as a "by product" of your observational programs. ... We think such estimations ought to be produced every morning after CCD observations of the moving celestial objects by observer himself. ...

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