... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > La Silla Facilities > La Silla Science Operations . ... La Silla News . ... Internal Pages . La Silla Science Operations Department (LSO) is part of the La Silla Paranal Observatory and is in charge of the operations of the telescopes on La Silla. ... In the La Silla Science Operation pages, you should find all the information you need for your observations from the time you have an idea of observations until when you finish processing your data. ...

STIS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 3: STIS Capabilities, Design, Operations, and Observations > 3.3 Basic Instrument Operations . ... Target Acquisitions and Peakups . ... For science observations taken through slits which are smaller than 3 arcseconds in either dimension, and for use of the coronagraphic bars, you will need to specify a target acquisition exposure to center the target in the science aperture. ...

ATCA Automation Jamie Stevens | ... Several options for this automation: · Train observers automatically · Help observers during their observations automatically · Observe automatically ATCA Automation | Jamie Stevens | Page 2 Observer Training ATCA Automation | ... Page 3 Observer Training ATCA is operated by the observer; this is generally thought of as unusual, but useful. ... Page 5 Observer Assistance ATCA Automation | ... Page 9 Observer Automation Training is expensive. ...

... 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 . ... Other Links Project Related Links Research Projects Other X-ray Missions Space Weather Links . The Science Operations and Data Systems Division of ESA's Research and Scientific Support Department develops and runs astronomy projects in space. ...

... Click on an object in the solar system or choose from the list at left to learn more . The Arecibo Observatory planetary radar is the world's most powerful instrument for post-discovery characterization and orbital refinement of near-Earth objects. ... The Solar System Studies group is a department of the Arecibo Observatory, which is an NSF facility operated under cooperative agreement by SRI International, Universities Space Research Association (USRA), and la Universidad Metropolitana (UMET). ...

... Up: Proposal Processing . ... ESO is prototyping a distributed ``Phase II'' system that will allow astronomers to prepare their observations at their home institutions, while maintaining a central repository for all observation data. ... ESO is developing a Phase II Proposal Preparation system (P2PP) to collect detailed scientific programme descriptions, in the form of observation blocks (OB). ... ESO's Phase II Proposal Preparation system is an integral part of the VLT Data Flow System (DFS). ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... A Minor Planet's Night Out . ... Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter are thousands of rocky bodies. ... In 1804 came Juno; in 1807, Vesta. ... Most minor planets, as asteroids are sometimes affectionately called, hum in elliptical orbits between Mars and Jupiter. ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... The schedule assigned id (example: AS05) for your observing program. ... Use the time you started using the telescope including when you started taking calibrations. The time you opened for on sky observations can be entered later in the activity log. UTC End Time: . ... Focus Log: . ... The focus position can be obtained under the Telescope column of the System Status in ACP or from the run log. ... When all fields are filled out press this button to email the log to the ARCSAT and community. ...

... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

... To help you get the necessary calibration data in the least observing time, the planning program generates a schedule of required observations. A considerable amount of photometric expertise is built into this program, so that observers without much photometric experience can confidently adopt its recommended defaults, and obtain a plan that should be satisfactory for most photometric observing programs. ...

. Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . My observations . NGDC's observations . The solar regions . Links . About authors . Russian pages . About authors . Observer: Alexey Ryback . Web-design: Alexander Burkov .

... A form allowing access to any MPEC is at the bottom of this page. ... Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network MPC @CFA.HARVARD.EDU URL http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/ mpc .html 2010 NJ1 Observations: K10N01J * K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J ... C51 WISE. ...

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... Observations were made with the LWP and SWP cameras and to save time in downloading images, double exposure were made in the long-wavelength camera, usually of 10 minutes each. ... The data were extracted by C.J. Butler using the STARLINK package IUEDR and fluxes, corrected for background, determined for the prominent emission lines in MgII and Lyman Alpha. Ly Alpha was corrected for geocoronal emission by Doyle, using the method of Byrne and Doyle (1988). ...

Visual Discovery of SN 1996X in NGC 5061. ... It was not until the IAU Circular was issued that we found out there had been an independent amateur photographic discovery of this supernova by Kesao Takamizawa of Japan. ... Earlier in the week, 660 galaxies had been observed during two nights we had use of the 40 inch telescope at Siding Spring. ... The supernova in NGC 5061 was first seen with the smaller telescope about 10pm local time on Friday, April 12 (April 12.5 UT). ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... GSC 4232-02515, NSVS 3147658, NSVS 3174760 . ... 14.2-14.9 (R, NSVS); . ... During observations of a secondary eclipse of GSC 04232-02830 (Goranskij et al., 2005) on August 8, 2007, we identified GSC 4232-02515 as a W UMa eclipsing binary. ... VAST software was used for aperture photometry. ... This method produces a light curve with an arbitrary zero point. ... Light Curve . Light curve of GSC 4232-02515 in NSVS magnitude scale. ... gsc423202515_kadar_nsvs.dat . ...

Next: NICMOS/HST H-band (F160W) Images Up: NICMOS Science Previous: HST NICMOS Observations of . ... Observations of P . ... The NICMOS team has devised a comprehensive program of observations of the Galactic Center. ... Data in hand give a first look at variability and a detailed look at the search for the tip of the main sequence will be discussed where NICMOS has demonstrated adequate sensitivity and photometric precision to identify likely O8-B1 stars at the Galactic Center. ...

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GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...