... The mirrorCtrl mirror controller actor controls one telescope mirror. It accepts desired orientation and commands mirror motion accordingly. ... It is presently designed to command a Galil mirror controller , but one may add support for other low-level motion controllers. mirrorCtrl is written pure Python. ... Home the desired actuators, where actuator list is a comma-separated list of actuator letters A through F (but some mirrors have fewer than 6 actuators). 2.5m M1 valid actuators: A-F . ...

... The sky position of a single source may be entered via the parameters ra , dec and (optionally) errorradius . ... In this mode, the output positions are printed to a single line of standard output. ... Source dec = <dec> deg. # # rawX rawY ccd On chip? +xxx.xx +xxx.xx xx x 123456789 123456789 12345678 . ... Source dec = <dec> deg. # # detX detY +xxxxx.x +xxxxx.x 123456789 12345678 . ... Source dec = <dec> deg. # # detX detY det err +xxxxx.x +xxxxx.x xxxxx.x 123456789 123456789 123456789 . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controller Instruction Manual . Autostar Computer Controller . ... NOTE: This manual covers both Model #495 Autostar and #497 ETX Autostar Computer Controllers. ... Autostar Primary Menus and Options . ... Chapter 3: Alignment . ... Guided Tour Menu . ... Chapter 5: Autostar Menu Functions . ... Meade Autostar Computer Controller . ... Meade #505 Connector Cable Set Manual . ... Copyright 2006 Meade Instruments Corporation, All Rights Reserved. ...

FGS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Fine Guidance Sensor Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 4: Observing with the FGS > 4.1 Position Mode Overview . ... Position Mode Overview . 4.1.1 The Position Mode Visit . 4.1.2 The Position Mode Exposure . ... A Position mode visit yields measurements of the location of objects in the FGS?s total field of view (FOV), and hence their relative angular positions. ... This process repeats until the FGS has completed all exposures in the visit. ...

... p12mProg program design . p12mProg commands . mode we use to run the p12m controller . ... The p12mProg is the AO control program for the 12meter telescope. ... Send commands to the 12m controller over ethernet (using some modbus over ethernet routines) . ... turn on,off, set modes, track objects . ... ephmFileNm: name of ephemeris file that was loaded . ... For more info on ephemeris tracking, see : pnt ephm command for 305 meter . ... The p12m controller settings used by the p12mProg are: . ...

... Up: Future Instruments and Telescopes, Tools . ... UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 . ... These Tcl/Tk-based tools maintain and interact with a relational database of instrument characteristics. ... The toolkit has greatly reduced the amount of effort required from many UCO/Lick technicians, and has set new standards for quality and performance of the resulting instruments. ... This same metaphor is also being applied to instruments built for Lick Observatory. ...

The FITS archive: How to archive a new dataset . HyperLeda home | Documentation | ... Archived data | ... Archiving data consists in adding in the FITS header all the keywords necessary for a full description of the data. ... Write the same procedure for all the frames and use the keywords to get the parameters specific to a given file. ... For the moment the calibration files (eg. flatfield...) are referred with their identification in the HyperLeda FITS archive: as eg. fa:L95011HP2/99004 . ...

Next: The Transmission Gratings Up: The Instruments Previous: The Instruments . ... A conventional cross-grid charge detector reads out the photo-induced charge cloud and the electronics determine an arrival time to 16s, and the position with a resolution of about 18 m or 0.37 arcsec. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Space Research, in collaboration with Lincoln Laboratories, developed the detector system and manufactured the CCDs; Lockheed-Martin integrated the instrument. ...

... 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 . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > Instrumentation Development > Detectors and Controllers . ... La Silla Paranal Observatory . ... APEX . ... Instrument development includes the development, testing, installation and monitoring the optical and infrared detector system for ESO telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory in Chile. ... The development of detectors systems include the electronics that is needed for the controlling detector and for processing the data. ...

Program: tracks Purpose: Plots the track of a number of snips for a number of detectors. ... COOR= Coordinate system. ... LOOP= Default TRACKS loops over [sdet/snip/no] the detectors if more than one snip is given, or one snip and one detector, i.e. that for each detector all given snips are plotted in a separate plot. ... If `sdet` is entered all snips are plotted for each detector in a single plot. ... IF `no` is entered all tracks for all given snips and detectors are plotted in one single plot. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... To set the coordinates in E2000 use xpaset -p tel target [ra] [dec] All commands and arguments are lower case. ... Primary functions set or get values and provide basic control with the actions noted tel status [exit/on/off] manage xpatel and the telescope controller tel goto [on/off] go to target tel track [on/off] toggle track on and off tel guide [on/off] toggle precision guide on target tel target [#] [#] target coordinates [RA (h)] [ Dec (deg)] (E2000) tel ...

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OptInt PmWiki . MROI / . ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Design Documentation . ... MROI DL Production SW Contract . ... Preliminary Design Review . Software Design Documentation . ... MROI Fast Tip-Tilt Contract . ... Design Documents . ... MROI FT SW Architecture . ... Science Instrument Downselect . ... MROI DL Design Contract Private Material . ... Workpackage Status 2006/10/12 . ... Due Date . ... Due 2006/07/31 . 70% done . ... Preliminary design for downselected concept . ...

... In the above example, the second region uses the global coordinate system (PHYSICAL by default). ... Supported systems include: name description ---- ----------- PHYSICAL pixel coords of original file using LTM/LTV IMAGE pixel coords of current file FK4, B1950 sky coordinate systems FK5, J2000 sky coordinate systems GALACTIC sky coordinate systems ECLIPTIC sky coordinate systems ICRS currently same as J2000 LINEAR linear wcs as defined in file In addition, two mosaic coordinate ...

... Determination of the direction towards the center of the Sun’s visible disc relative to spacecraft axes. ... The direction to the Sun is computed in the instrument coordinate system relative to the pixels' position on the linear CCDs, illuminated with the light passing through the coding mask. ... less than 0.1 deg./s                                        3 arcmin . ... Field of view, deg . in the plane OXZ                                           –60…+60° . ... Optical Solar Tracker (OSD) . ...

INFRARED FOURIER-SPECTROMETER SICH-F . ... Instrument work regimes: 1) Inside. 2) Calibration at inside standard sources 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 3) Calibration at "free space" 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 4) Infrared radiation measuring 10 - 40 min. per a rotation. ... Spectrometer consists of the photodetector block and the block of signal processing and control. ... Diagnostic information and attach data will transfer by state telemetric channels. ... Detector temperature. ...

Instruments and Methods 125 Long time tracking of the Sun with RATAN-600 in Radio Schmidt mode V.B. Khaikin, E.K. Ma jorova, I.G. E mov, O.A. Victorov, V.M. Bogod, and S.Kh. ... Cosmic source tracking with unmovable main mirror in a form of cylinder requires a special secondary mirror of double curvature 12 m size or a phased array in the focal plane of an ordinary secondary mirror Ka jdanovskij, 1980. ... Fig. 4 shows the Sun tracking with new drive in speed control mode starting from meridian. ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . The program controls the data acquisition according to the specified schedule of the sessions. ... The calibration of AVHRR instrument data is performed during acquisition . The program can be started in parallel with the satellite pass visualization, that allows the user to monitor a session and store data only relevant to specific regions in manual selection mode. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...