Procedure to Emergency Close the 2.5-meter Telescope . ... The proper method for stowing the telescope in the event of a loss of telescope control if site power remains available. ... Throw the WS control box power switch "close" (up) . ... Change the WS manual pendent connector in WS control box to ALT Axis Brundy, make sure the "pot" is at "000" and the palm switch is depressed . ... Bring alt to 6њ and slowly approach and set 'pot' to "000" and, depressing the palm switch, on alt brake . ...

... E1 Apertures Kailash C. Sahu March 9, 2004 ABSTRACT A calibration program was carried out to determine the spectroscopic LSFs at the pseudo-aperture locations (E1 apertures) for the first order CCD modes. Observations were taken with the narrowest 52X0.05 acrsec slit to minimize the effect of the aperture on the determination of the LSFs. ... The dotted lines are the LSFs obtained at the nominal aperture locations and the solid lines are the LSFs obtained at the pseudo aperture locations. ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

... The routine returns the offset (deltaX, deltaY) from the linear grid position for a specified detector location. ... the distortion (deltaX, deltaY) at the detector location (rawX, rawY) is derived from the distortion map stored in the extension FILTER-FilterId (e.g. FILTER-U, FILTER-V, FILTER-GRISM1 etc.) ... interpolate the extracted distortion points (RAWX_OFF ,RAWY_OFF ) and calculate the distortion (deltaX,deltaY) at the requested postion (rawX, rawY) . ... deltaX, deltaY . ...

... Cassini Images The Moon . ... On August 18, the Cassini spacecraft flew by the Earth and Moon, then continued on its way to the outer solar system. Near its closest approach to the Moon, a distance of about 377,000 kilometers, controllers tested Cassini's imaging systems on this most familiar celestial body. ... Water Found in Space Rock . ... Nearly four kilometers across, the huge rock known as 1999 JM8 silently passed only 8.5 million kilometers from the Earth in early August. ... August . ...

... Drive the Reflector in elevation to the zenith position. ... Elevation | ... 7 SUMMARY OF REFLECTOR SURFACE ACCURACY MEASUREMENT Test Date: Start Time: End Time: Weather Conditions during Test: Comments: By- _________________ Date- _______________ SUB-REFLECTOR AND FEED POSITION AND ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENT 1 2 OVERVIEW This test is to measure and record the positions of the sub- reflector and feed horn using photogrammetry. ... 3 4 SUB-REFLECTOR/FEED POSITION AND ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENT TEST PROCEDURE 1...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... A fixed-term Research Technician position is available at the Armagh Observatory funded by the Europlanet Research Infrastructure (RI) under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union (EU). ... For these purposes, there will be regular meetings of the technician with the PI at the Observatory, several per week during the initial phases of the project and a minimum of 1 per week thereafter. ...

... 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. ...

Next: Catalog Construction Up: Observations and Analysis Previous: Source Detections . ... It was assumed that the highest signal gives the most likely position of the source. ... Comparing the summed map with the maps from the individual energy ranges, the one which produced the smallest error box was chosen to represent the source position, as long as was greater than 4, a level chosen to reflect a reasonable degree of confidence in the detection. ...