Displays the current status of NICFPS spectrograph and allows you to change the configuration. ... Once the instrument builders have more time with the instrument we plan to refine the controls. ... Select TUI:Save Window Positions to remember the state of this checkbutton. ... The contextual menu on each control can return that control to the current setting of the instrument. ... the current set of filters. ... Current : reset all configuration widgets to the current state of the instrument. ...

The WFPC2 camera configuration and filter set require a substantial number of apertures for full utilization of its capabilities. All possible aperture and filter combinations are given in Table 3.14 . Each camera has an associated 'optimum' aperture close to the geometric center of its field-of-view (FOV). ... The aperture designations are WF2, WF3, WF4, and PC1 for the individual cameras and WFALL for the three-WFC combination. ... CCD . ... Optimum center WF2 . ... Optimum center WF3 . ...

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 . ...

... Circles are used to depict the source positions. ... A optional ID label can also be displayed alongside the circle, corresponding to the row num- ber of that source in the input source list. ... These circles are in fact DS9-type regions, which can be written out to a le for future use (for example, when running a later DS9 session) by setting withregionfile to true, and specifying the desired le name via the regionfile parameter. ... This is a text le containing region descriptions for each source...

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). ...

... Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are currently by far the most widely used type of detector in astronomy. ... After a brief introduction to the VLT Control System, the VLT CCD Detectors Control Software is presented. The VLT Control System is a distributed system consisting of a set of UNIX Workstations, dedicated to high level operations, such as coordination of sub-system activities and interface to the users, and VME-based Local Control Units (LCU), dedicated to the control of sub-systems hardware. ...

Contents] [Prev page] [Next page] [Index] . Navigator 4 from Netscape, which is part of the Communicator product suite, includes three new areas of functionality that taken together give you Dynamic HTML. The three components of Dynamic HTML are style sheets, content positioning, and downloadable fonts. Used together, these three components give you greater control over the appearance, layout, and behavior of your web pages. ... Introducing Downloadable Fonts . ...

... 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. ...

... User Guide ] Task: tvall Purpose: Interact with a previously displayed image Categories: visual display TVALL is a WERONG/MIRIAD task which allows interactive modification of the TV lookup tables, etc. ... A menu for operations to be performed will appear on the TV screen. ... Blink between two channels (The mouse y-coordinate determines the blink rate. ... Hit any button to stop blinking). Fiddle the lookup tables (The transfer function is governed by the mouse position. ...

Next: FIT/ROMAFOT Up: The Interactive Path Previous: FIND/ROMAFOT . ... To examine the catalogue table created by the command FIND/ROMAFOT one should use the command ``M'' followed by the sequential position of the object. ... A subframe with the selected star at the center is presented to the user. ... During the examination of the objects passed by FIND/ROMAFOT it often happens that several stars are asked to fit together in the same window and some of these are in the catalogue table. ...