... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... Current APO Weather . ... Search Site . ... Information for New Users . ... Technical Staff pages . Night Logs and Mailing Lists (maintained by APO) . ... Technical Documents and Database Search . ... Observer's Documentation and Procedures . ... Problem Reporting and APO Technical Documents Database Search . ... APO Drawing/Document Management Procedures . ... APO Technical Documents Database Search . Home Astrophysical Research Consortium . ... Mail Lists (maintained by APO) . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... SETI@home consists of a receiving Arecibo antenna, a professional team (PT), and a two-way Internet connection between the PT and an army of S@h users, who load from the S@h server special software for digital signal processing. ... Thereby, METI@home will consist of several originators, which may load via Internet from a M@h server special software for the creation of analog and digital messages. ... ETI as a Source of Information . ... Main Internet Server . ... ETI as a Customer of Information . ...

... Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, U.K. љ This paper describes how Tcl and the Tk toolkit have been extended to send and receive Adam inter-task messages, and how it has been used to build graphically-oriented user interfaces for various data reduction tasks. ... The user interface uses the message system to control the task. ... adam_init . ... The user interface sends messages to the relay task using the Adam message system, which forwards them to the Adam tasks. ...

ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Staff list | ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... VLBI . ... CSIRO ATNF Data Archives . ... 2 x 500 MHz input IFs . ... Data rates up to 1 Gbps (specifically 4x64 MHz) . ... two 16bit data streams sampling four 64 MHz channels. ... first 64 MHz channel then the same for the second channel (ie the data . ... For narrow band low data rate observations (say 4x 4 MHz or 8x1 MHz) . ...

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. ...

General Forum Message . Forums: . ... George Lutz Observatory . ... The G.H. Lutz observatory is named in honor of George H. Lutz who was involved in the early stages of design of the Ritchey Chretien telescope system which is widely used today. ... For purchasing a telescope you may visit The Astronomy Yellow Pages on-line. ... In 1999 became the managing director and resident astronomer for our observatory along with managing an on-line mall "Loron's Astronomy Mall" FAQ's GEORGE H. LUTZ (1.) ...

... Data . ... Download . ... Data Analysis in Python Tutorial . ... STSDAS Provides general purpose tools for astronomical data analysis as well as routines designed specifically for processing data from the Hubble Space Telescope . ... STSDAS is a software package for analyzing astronomical data. TABLES is an external package in IRAF that provides support for tabular data for STSDAS and other packages. pysynphot is an object-oriented replacement for IRAF STSDAS SYNPHOT synthetic photometry package. ...

... 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. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . DKIST under construction. ... Armagh Observatory and QueenБЂ™s University Belfast have secured a role in the construction of the worldБЂ™s biggest and most revolutionary solar telescope. They are part of a consortium that includes seven other UK universities and Andor Technology to provide the cameras for the $344M super-telescope, which will be located in Hawaii. ... Construction of the telescope has already begun. ...

The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many kinds of Unix programs, including X programs and Tcl/Tk programs. It also provides an easy way for users to communicate with these XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands in the shell or by utilizing such commands in scripts. ... A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with other client programs (and users). ...

. " The Arecibo Observatory is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations . expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation."

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. ...

European Industrial Engineering MRO Project Unit Telescope Enclosure & Relocation System Design and Fabrication Management UTE ­ FTT interface control document Ref.: ... Issue Date Page Title Control :MRO-ICD-EIE-0023 :4 :2010.03.24 : 3 of 6 :UTE-FTT Interface Document MROI PROJECT Unit Telescope Enclosure & Relocation System Table of Contents 1. ... This document is property of European Industrial Engineering Srl - Any reproduction or circulation is forbidden without prior approval. ...

... XmTel is a telescope control interface designed to to communicate with a telescope server, and Elwood Downey's XEphem, through the INDI protocol. It will also operate as a free-standing program for control of telescopes that use the NexStar, Paramount, and LX200 command sets, telescope drive systems built using Galil's industrial motion controller, and RC Optical's Professional series fork mount with electronics from Telescope Control Systems. ... See the notes in the Galil controller directory. ...

... Since 2011 our observatory is a member of GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science) project - wide international collaboration of 13 scientific institutions from 8 countries aiming at opening public access to robotic telescopes, as well as propagating astronomy in general. The GLORIA Project offers Internet users the possibility of studying the sky from professional observatories. ... The experiments are available at the users site of GLORIA. ... About GLORIA . ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Message From Earth . ... 23.01.2000 . ... Arecibo Observatory ( Cornell , NAIC ) Explanation: What are these Earthlings trying to tell us? ... During the dedication of the Arecibo Observatory - still the largest radio telescope in the world - a string of 1's and 0's representing the above diagram was sent. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: SETI - Arecibo . Publications with words: SETI - Arecibo . ...

home education > resources . ... Education from Mercury . ... Selected Topical Bibliographies . Astronomy Education Bibliography . ... Astronomy . ... Goldman, S. "Prime Time Astronomers: The Astronomers TV Series" in Sky Telescope, May 1991, p. 472. ... Goldman, S. "Astronomy on the Internet" in Sky Telescope, Aug. 1995, p. 20. ... Marschall, L. "Virtual Professional Astronomy" in Sky Telescope, Aug. 1995, p. 92. ... Wallin, J. "Astronomy Education on the Web" in Sky Telescope, Nov. 1997, p. 68. ...