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 . ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Description / Detailed layout of GUI At the top of the main window are five pull-down menus labeled File , Column , Region , Viewer , Style , and Help respectively. The File menu contains the following selectable entries: . field . key shortcut . ... New table . ... Bring up a data set browser for selecting a new input table. ... The Column menu contains the following selectable entries: . ... The Region menu contains the following selectable entries: . ...

The first character in each record (line) of formatted output defines a carriage control character to the lineprinter, often called ASA-character, for a previous name of the US Standardization Organization ANSI. ... When using VAX/VMS for output first on a file, which is to be printed later on paper, it is advisable to use the extension .DAT . ... You use the compiler switch -vms f77 -vms prog.f and get the control characters removed from the screen output. ...

... VLBI Schedule . ... Observers Wiki . Schedules . ... Main / . Locate VNC session "pksvnc1", to be found on (usually) the left-most screen of the 4-headed control room machine. ... On the leftmost desktop in this session find the "oprin" window and type; . ... To start a new observing schedule type the following; . ... The second of the four connected displays (on "bourbon") is displaying the VNC session "vlbi's PkMk5B ", which is running on pictor:2 using the vlbi VNC password. ...

Next: Preparing Data Frames Up: Object Search and Previous: What Data Frames . The user is advised to start working with this new kind of observational material by applying commands to small regions of an investigated frame in order to properly tune control parameters. ... Preparing Data Frames . Setting the Low and High Cuts . Setting the Keywords used by SEARCH/INV Command . Executing the ANALYSE/INV Command . Setting the Keywords used by the ANALYSE Command . ...

This custom-made "octopus" cable connects half of one Canoga-Perkins CMX-808 fiber-optic RS-232 multiplexer to a patch panel or 8-port harmonica with 6-wire 6-position RJ11 jacks. ... Two of these octopi are required to connect an entire fiber-optic multiplexer (8 DB25 connectors, 16 channels). ... Use of twisted pair wire is optional, but if it is used, it must be used as shown in the table. ... DB25 . ... Comparing columns 2 against 4, 5... gives the resulting octopus wiring (DB25 to Telco USOC) . ...

... Monitor short-term and long-term performance of all pipeline supported instrument modes, to assure that ESO delivers astronomical data of known and controlled quality . Follow the execution of instrument calibration plans; work with Paranal Science Operations to maintain calibration plans . Process all pipeline supported calibration data; ingest certified calibration products into the Archive . Create associations for all pipeline supported science data and archive them . ...

Celestron Forum Message . Forums: . ... Discussion Forums | ... Post . ... Hand Control CGE 1400 . ... Post Message | ... On hand control display I receive the message "No respond 16" and "No respond 17", . I don't know if the Hand control or the telescope is damaged. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... In some cases where memory space is at a premium, it is possible to tailor the configuration to remove such features as reference clock driver support, debugging support, and so forth. ... The following lines are used in this file: . ... The DEFS_LOCAL line defines global flags that apply to all machines. Ordinarily, the only flags included are the -DDEBUG , which includes the debugging code, and -DREFCLOCK , which includes basic reference clock support. ... D_INCLUDE_BSD_SOURCE . ...

The File System . ... Files are identified to the system using a unique identifier called the file specification , which can include disk and directory names as well as node names for accessing files across the network. On VMS systems, file names are usually thought of as having three parts *1 : the filename , the file type , and the version number . ... The full file specification, with node name, device, directory, file name, file type, and version being specified is shown in Figure 3.1 . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... Location /server-info> . ... You may wish to use mod_authz_host inside the <Location> directive to limit access to your server configuration information: . ... In particular, this module can leak sensitive information from the configuration directives of other Apache modules such as system paths, usernames/passwords, database names, etc. ... For example, http://your.host.example.com/server-info?config will show all configuration directives. ?<module-name> . ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Page List Templates . ... template first:) . ... template last ...:) sections to specify output for the first or last page in the list or a group. ... template]] (:template defaults order=name:) (:template first:) Pages ordered by group (:template first {=$Group}:) Pages in group [[{=$Group}/]] (:template each:) * [[{=$FullName}]] (:template last {=$Group}:) {=$Group} contains {$$GroupPageCount} pages. (:template last:) {$$PageCount} pages total. [[#templateend]] . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara State Aerospace University Education Additional training . Institute of Continuing Professional Education (ICPE) was established in 2004 as a structural unit of SSAU. ... The main aim of the institute is a wide range of educational support, dealing with educational development and professional retraining of university lecturers, industrial staff and other population categories with the aim of satisfying their educational and professional development needs. ...

... 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 . ...

... This is not important for drift observations but poses a problem for any observing mode in which the telescope is moving while taking data, since the ALFA beams then will be rotating on the sky. ... The new mode is called ' sky angle tracking ' and is available for all existing observing modes. ... The next figure shows the distance between the beams in declination as a function of hour angle when the telescope is tracking a source with Dec=+10 from rise to set with a sky angle of 19 degrees. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... LX600 Series . ... LX200 Series . ... MeadeтАЩs new LX70 Series offers high-quality German equatorially mounted telescopes with slow-motion controls and heavy-duty steel tripods. ... Compatibility: Sensor Control Board for LX200 8" - 16" and LX600 10" - 14" models. ... LX600/LX200 Sensor Control Board (Left Forkarm). Compatibility: Sensor Control Board for LX200GPS 8" - 16" and LX600 10" - 14" models. ...

... Satellite data ] . ... SMIS IKI RAN has developed the software package which may be used both by owners of acquisition stations and individual users of satellite information. ... AVHRR instrument data processing. ... This enables the users who are not yet qualified in computer methods of satellite data processing, to get a quick start with the software. ... The basic software package enables a user to solve a wide range of tasks (in our server You can find the data processing samples ). ...

... The following script will create an individual qpoe file (64x64 pixels) for each obi, with the filename containing the obi number. ... This script will then produce smoothed image files and send a contour plot to either the screen or the printer. ... On rare occasions, it may be useful to examine each phase bin visually to evaluate the segments in order to decide if some should be deleted before restacking for the final result. ... The qpoe file will be named by obi and phase number. ... phase_eval ...

... The if statement . ... The switch statement . ... if ( expression ) statement 1 else statement 2 ...or: . ... expression 1 ? ... The C switch is similar to Pascal's case statement and it allows multiple choice of a selection of items at one level of a conditional where it is a far neater way of writing multiple if statements: . switch ( expression ) { case item 1 : statement 1 ; break; case item 2 : statement 2 ; break; case item n : statement n ; break; default: statement ; break; } . ...

In the this version .. ... Adaptable to any dome with relay control of rotation and optionally the shutters . Rotation encoding with RFID tags using Phidgets RFID tag reader . Used with XmTel and XmCCD provides automatic dome rotation to follow the pointing of a telescope . ... PyDome provides for local or remote operation of an astronomical telescope dome. While specific to the hardware we use for the Shared Skies programs at Moore and Mt. ... Latest version 1.0 updated July 23, 2012 . ...