Next: Sky Subtraction Up: Construction of Flat Previous: Standard construction . For a number of projects where very deep integrations and accurate flat fields are required, and the targets are point sources or much smaller than the frame size, the sky background itself can be used to calculate the flat field. ... Use STATISTICS/IMAGE to calculate the image median, and COMPUTE/IMAGE to divide by this to get the normalised flat field. ...

The NICFPS:Dither:Point Source Random script allows you to take a sequence of exposures in a square pattern plus a point in the middle. This pattern is typically used for point sources. ... Any dither point may be omitted by unchecking its checkbox before running the script. ... Dither pattern without randomization . ... Randomization 1. ... Dither pattern with randomization Thanks to Corey Wood for the first implementation of randomization and for the images used in the documentation. ...

Table 3.1: Designations of Special Targets . Table 3.2: Target Categories . Table 3.3: Descriptive Keywords for STAR and EXT-STAR . Table 3.4: Descriptive Keywords for STELLAR CLUSTER and EXT-CLUSTER . Table 3.5: Descriptive Keywords for GALAXY . ... Table 3.13: Bright-Object Constraints . The use of "FIXED_TARGETS" and "GENERIC_TARGETS" are described in this chapter. ... In this chapter, each heading has a description followed by a keyword in square brackets (e.g., [ Number] ). ...

... POSITION= Give central position: [0,0] ANGLE= Give angle (deg), w.r.t North towards the East: GRIDOUT= New grid spacing of [spacing in longitude] rotated axis: POINTS= Give number of pixels on rotated axis: [Number of pixels on longitude axis] SLICES= Number of slices above and below slice [0,0] through new projection centre. Total number of slices cannot exceed 256. SPACE= Spacing between slices: [grid spacing in latitude] OUTSET= Give output set: PLOT= Create plot of slice? ...

The XImtool control panel is the main interface for the XImtool display program, on which SAOtng is based. The SAOtng GUI duplicates the most of the functionality of the control panel in its menu and accel buttons, but the control panel is offered as a window-based alternative to run-of-the-mill menus. ... Tile Frames . ... The text display window gives the field X,Y center, X,Y scale factors, and the X,Y zoom factors. ... Fit Frame makes the display window the same size as the frame buffer. ...

... The tension in members of the telescope changes as we move the dome, ch, azimuth, and tiedown tensions. The lifetime of a beam is counted in the number of times the change in tension goes through a cycle. ... Examples of telescope motion with corresponding unbalanced moment. ... The number of cycles were computed for : 5000, 10000, 15000, 20000 kipFeet momemnt change. ... The number of cycles on the telescope was computed using the change in the unbalanced moment (at a corner). ... cycles . ...

... LiveAudio is LiveConnect aware. Using LiveConnect, LiveAudio, and JavaScript, essentially any event that can be described programmatically using the JavaScript framework can trigger a sound event. ... For these methods to be available to JavaScript (and the web page), you must embed a LiveAudio console (any console will do, it can even be hidden) somewhere on your page. play({loop[TRUE, FALSE or an INT]}, '{url_to_sound}') . ... HTML> . BODY> <EMBED SRC="sound1.wav" . ... Play the sound now!< ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

... List of SAS threads . This thread contains a (very!) simple standard XSPEC session for fitting data from the X-ray cameras. ... Start XSPEC . ... Load spectrum data: . ... response 1 PN.rmf . ... plot data . Fig.1: XSPEC data plot . Ignore bad channels in data: . ... The latter, the maximum number of channels to bu summed. plot data with model adjustment and e.g. the residuals (alternatives, ratio data/model, absolute chi-squared, etc) . ... Fig.2: XSPEC data, model and residual plot . ...

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... The numbers of three types of compact binaries containing accreting NSs and BHs, which are most interesting from the point of view of their observational appearances, have been calculated as a function of time: i) X-ray transient source containing a NS in an eccentric orbit around a main sequence Be-star (the observed prototype: A0535+26), ii) BH The evolution of the selected types of X-ray binaries during the first 10 million years after the starburst onset is presented in Fig. ...

... Insert date: . Day: . Month: . ... This CGI -script calculates a day of week of the given date, Julian date of Greenwich noon JD and extracts from the database indices of solar activity: Wolf number for the day W , monthly W m and yealy means W y of Wolf number for month and year of the date. The prediction of Wolf number (which was made in 1998 and, hence, lost actuality) is also presented. The database uses solar activity data got from server of National Geophysical Data Center . ...

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. ...

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There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

... Routines for accessing I/O ports are in /usr/include/asm/io.h (or linux/include/asm-i386/io.h in the kernel source distribution). ... Before you access any ports, you must give your program permission to do so. This is done by calling the ioperm() function (declared in unistd.h , and defined in the kernel) somewhere near the start of your program (before any I/O port accesses). ... For example, ioperm(0x300, 5, 1) would give access to ports 0x300 through 0x304 (a total of 5 ports). ...

... This command specifies the default delay to be used under these circumstances. ... This command configures a trap receiver at the given host address and port number for sending messages with the specified local interface address. ... While such monitor programs may also request their own trap dynamically, configuring a trap receiver will ensure that no messages are lost when the server is started. setvar variable [ default ] . This command adds an additional system variable. ...

Next: IFU Data Products and Reduction Software . ... To fully exploit such a potential a dedicated tool, the VIMOS Mask Preparation Software (MPS), has been designed. The MPS provides the astronomer with tools for the selection of the objects to be spectroscopically observed, including interactive object selection, handling of curved slits, and an algorithm for automatic slit positioning that derives the most effective solution in terms of the number of objects selected per field. ...