. Development and maintenance of instruments are supported by the Astrophysical Research Consortium and the staff at Apache Point Observatory . Instruments . Instrument Filters . Camera Controls (TBD)

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > Instrumentation Development > VLT/Instrument Interfaces . ... APEX Visitor Instrument . ... The interfaces between the VLT Unit Telescopes and the scientific instruments to be operated at the VLT Cassegrain, Nasmyth and Coudц© foci are well defined. ... Interface and numerous other relevant information for instrument builders is available in the "Requirements for Scientific Instruments on the VLT Unit Telescopes" , ESO doc. no. ...

STScI . ... Phase I Proposing . ... Astronomer's Proposal Tool . ... STScI solicits proposals for HST Observing, Archival Theoretical Research. ... HST Cycle 24 Phase II Proposal Deadline . The Call for Proposals (CP) invites the astronomical community to propose for observing time on HST in a given cycle (nominally one year in duration). It summarizes the policies and procedures for proposing in that cycle of HST observing, including requests for funding research on archival HST data. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Roof Status . ... If you select Winer to provide the site and maintenance for your remotely-operated telescope, your telescope will be housed in the modern roll-off roof observatory seen at left. ... The building computer and most customer telescope control computers are programmed to keep logs to assist in diagnosing problems in moving the roof or telescopes, or in controlling the instruments. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Future ATNF Operations (Version 2.1, December 2008) [pdf] . ... For information and documents on the future operations plans, science priorities, and community feedback please see the links below. Future ATNF Operations: Overview . ...

GALFA Memos and Documents: Ordered by Topic . ... GALFA Consortium . ... 2005 Jan 31 . ... Stanimirovic, Dickey . 2005 Jun 1 . ... 2004 Feb 1 . ... 2006 Sep 7 . ... Krco, Stanimirovic, Goldston . 2006 Jun 13 . ... Heiles, Mock, Tang, Stanimirovic . ... Stanimirovic, Putman, Goldston . ... Heiles, Goldston, et al. ... Stanimirovic, Heiles, Goldston, et al. ... GALFA Memos and Documents: Reverse-Chronological Order . ... Krco, Stanimirovic, Heiles, Lee, Goldston, Pandian, Robishaw, Tang . ...

... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... Calibration & Background Calibration Background Analysis . SOC Info XMM-Newton Contact Details How to get to ESAC ESA Research Fellowships ESAC Trainee Projects ESA Young Graduate Trainees . ... The Science Operations and Data Systems Division of ESA's Research and Scientific Support Department develops and runs astronomy projects in space. ... XMM-Newton EPIC Calibration Scientist . ... XMM-Newton RGS Calibration Scientist . ... XMM-Newton Scientist . ...

... See "About ATMoB" / "Network" for more details on the clubhouse network. ... Direct viewing of a laser-pointer beam, even briefly and at a distance of a kilometer or two, has the potential to cause temporary flash blindness — the same effect you get right after a flash photo is taken — or afterimages. ... To help use our laser tools safely, the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. has adopted these recommendations as policy. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

Next: Observing Control at the UKIRT . ... A World Wide Web interface to the NOAO observing proposal form is now available. Proposal information is provided by users through a set of HTML forms and submitted to the NOAO server where it is processed by a Perl CGI script. Netscape users may optionally attach locally prepared PostScript figures or ASCII text files for inclusion in their proposals using that browser's file upload feature. ... Figure 1: A sample NOAO proposal Web form . ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... Doc Man . ... Page History | Attach | ... Document Management . ... Design Documents . ... Increment [MINOR] just prior to attaching a new version of the document to the wiki . ... Attach each document to one wiki page only . ... Beware that once you have released a document in this way, the link from Released FDR Documents will automatically point to any newer version that is later uploaded to the wiki (provided the instructions above about not renaming are followed) . ...

Sitemap . ... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Contact Information . General Information about the Observatory . Freedom of Information Documents . ... Observatory Wiki . ... Archives . Archives Exhibition . ... A Peculiar Star Newsletter . ... Positions Available . ... Recent changes in Earth's albedo and its implications for climate change . ... Second Armagh Catalogue of Stars . Solar System Research Papers . ... Instrument Information . ...

... NICS will be the only infrared instrument for the first light of the TNG; as a consequence, we decided to incorporate a sufficient degree of operation flexibility by providing the instrument with six different observing modes, three aimed at imaging and three at spectroscopy: . ... It will be possible to use the narrow band filters as order sorters; this will allow to perform high resolution long-slit spectroscopy in the wavelength ranges covered by the available narrow band filters. ...

... Moore Observatory is a research and advanced teaching facility of the University of Louisville. ... The 24-inch Ritchie Chretien (RC24) telescope is a research instrument used by faculty and graduate students involved in studies of exoplanets, optical properties of the atmosphere, and the development of imaging and spectroscopic technology. ... Kent (CDK20S) are collaboratively operated by the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland for both research and education. ...

Hide Zen home . ... Extent is a shortest and non-nested sequence of words, which satisfy a query . ... We don't consider normalization of document weight to 1, since we have no global information about document collection. w{i}, len{i} - weight and length of i-th extent . ... Next - the number of unique extents. freq{i} - frequency of i-th extent . We could consider strict and soft uniqueness of an extent, depending on how do we consider the order of words in extent. ... 2 - document length . ...

... For reducing data from ESO instrumentation it is assumed that the FITS headers conforms the standards set by the document ``ESO Archive, Data Interface Requirements''. ... As an example, in the ESO case the exposure type is stored in the ESO hierarchical FITS keyword `HIERARCH ESO GEN EXPO TYPE'. ... To fill the CCD keywords with the telescope and instrument setup parameters, like name of the telescope, CCD used, read-out noise, frame size, etc. the command LOAD/CCD can be used. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... 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 | ...

... Description(Russian): [ HTML ] [ PDF ] . ... 2002 : source L A T E X and export to [ HTML ], [ PDF ], [ PS ], [ OpenOffice ], [ MSWord ] . 2003 : source L A T E X and export to [ HTML ], [ PDF ], [ PS ], [ OpenOffice ], [ MSWord ] . 2004 : source L A T E X and export to [ HTML ], [ PDF ], [ PS ], [ StarOffice ], [ MSWord ] . 2005 : source L A T E X and export to [ HTML ], [ PDF ], [ PS ], [ StarOffice ], [ MSWord ] . ... 2014 : source HTML and export to [ PDF ], [ MSWord ], [ ODT ] . ...

... Minutes Group a (photocopy of the table with signatures and stamps) – one page. ... Theoretical round problems a – one page. ... Practical problem 7 ab – one page. ... Grid-lines for the practical problem 7 ab – one page. ... Picture to fill for problem 8 b – one page. ... Solutions of the practical round problems – not ready full (LOC jobs not done) – ?? pages. ... Observational round problems – one page. ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...