130705 ephemeris tracking . The pnt command has been added to the aotcl interpreter in vxWorks (used for online datataking). within the online tcl interpreter pnt ? ... Load ephemeris file with pnt ephm ld . Track the ephemeris file . Ephemeris tracking was added to the pnt command on 05jul13. ... The new command includes loading an ephemeris file and then tracking using this file. ... The user then starts the ephemeris tracking by issuing the pnt track command: . ... cR current ra,dec . ...

Next: The SAOimage Menu (options Up: Image Display in Xwindows Previous: SAOimage for remote users . ... Menu : to select an option, click any mouse button on that option. ... Quit : Select etc and quit . New image : Select etc and new . ... select etc and raise . ... Color lookup table : to change the contrast of the display hold `r' mouse button and move cursor in main window. ... Color lookup display : to display look-up table, click any mouse button on color bar. ...

... 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: On line HELP Up: Graphical User Interfaces Previous: Short Help . The buttons are located immediately below the short help. In colour terminals, the button labels have different colours which group them by functions, usually distinguishing between processing and verification commands. In order to ``push'' one of these buttons, you must position the mouse on top and ``click'' with the left button. ... Pascal Ballester . Tue Mar 28 16:52:29 MET DST 1995 ...

... xmmtrack . ... xmmtrack is an interactive IDL application that visualizes the orbit and attitude data in an ODF in the form of a 3-D animation sequence. The presented scenery includes an astronomically accurate simulation of the Earth-Sun system plus the actual and predicted trajectory of the XMM satellite on its path around the Earth. ... Please note: XMM's orbit is highly time variable and the predicted orbit will significantly deviate from the actual trajectory if the reference epochs differ. ...

... During eVLBI the JIVE correlator control software issues the following commands from the Mark5A command set to the Mark5 at the station: . ... m5data 2630/tcp # Mark5 data . ... Used to set the output data rate of the Mark5 at the station. It's probably safe to ignore this command, but there might be problems if you send data at a higher data rate than the Mark5 on our end expects. ... Expected response: . ... Used to make the Mark5 stop playing if it was playing back data from disk. ...

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Displays the current status of the Dual Imaging Spectrograph (DIS) and allows you to change the configuration. Normally only the most common status is displayed and the configuration controls are hidden. ... Pushing the "Config" button displays configuration controls (each to the right of its corresponding item of status). Select TUI:Save Window Positions to remember the state of this checkbutton. ... Turret : current position of the grating turret. ... Grating : name of the current grating. ...

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 . ...

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... B=Command, 12AB=Azm, comma, 4000=Alt. ... Example: if the desired position is 220°, then POSITION_24BIT = (220/360)*224 = 10,252,743 Separate POSITION_24BIT into three bytes such that (POSITION_24BIT = PosHigh*65536 + PosMed*256 + PosLow). Exampe: PosHigh = 156, PosMed = 113, PosLow = 199 Send the following 8 bytes: a. Azm Slow Goto: 80, 4, 16, 23, PosHigh, PosMed, PosLow, 0 b. Alt Slow Goto: 80, 4, 17, 23, PosHigh, PosMed, PosLow, 0 The number 35 is returned from the handcontrol 4. ...

Information and Resources . ... Two of the most commonly-used browsing tools are Gopher and World-Wide Web (and its clients, such as NCSA Mosaic or Lynx). ... You can use Gopher to access STEIS by typing the following command (Figure 9.3 shows the results): . ... The World-Wide Web (sometimes referred to as WWW or W3) is a hypertext-oriented way of navigating through the Internet and finding information. ... Figure 9.6 shows the Lynx interface. ... Figure 9.5: - Using Mosaic to Read WWW Home Pages . ...

Ground Support of RadioAstron . Control and Tracking Stations . RadioAstron satellite control (command transmission, telemetry, orbit measurements) will be conducted from Evpatoria and Bear Lake control stations. ... Coarse orbit measurements will be carried out from control stations. Each measurement takes ten minutes. ... Orbit measurements at tracking stations give only radial component of spacecraft velocity but the measurements are going continuously during observing sessions. ...

Next: Output files Up: Pipeline Previous: Pipeline Contents . ... The full command is as follows: . npoipipe, confiles, calibrators=calstars,addcal=calstar,model=modelfile . confiles is a string file specifier given to IDL's file_search function to return a list of files for processing. ... Calibrators can be added to the standard list using the addcal keyword. ... Finally, the model keyword can be used to pass the name of a model file which will be used to flag data on non-tracking baselines. ...

Posting Observations . ... You will need to subscribe to vsnet-acc (to allow you access to post your observations). ... VSNet has several different e-mail sigs, and sub sigs. ... These list are controlled by a software package called " Majordomo ", which allows you to subscribe and unsubscribe yourself from these list with an e-mail message (automated). ... Once you have subscribed to vsnet-acc (which will only send you a welcome message back and nothing else) you can post to the other list. ...

This section deals with how to use InterNet ftp. Firstly, a connection must be made with an InterNet host, using the open command. The following dialogue illustrates this, note that data typed by the user is in bold. guest_ftp> ftp ftp> open vax.bbn.com Connected to vax.bbn.com. 220 bbn-vax FTP server (Version 4.87 Thu Jul 12 18:59:05 EDT 1984) ready. Name (vax.bbn.com:): fred 331 Password required for fred. Password (vax.bbn.com:fred): password 230 User fred logged in. ftp> . ...

... The predicted MIR's ground tracks, which pass near INSPIRE net, are available in this home page. The track consists from magnetic footprints calculated by magnetic mapping from MIR positions with 30 s step. ... For each time some of the INSPIRE net place are selected as soon as its coordinates are close to the MIR magnetic footprint (the geocentric angular distance between SP and footprint is less then 2.1 deg) . Back to the Top . ... Back to the IKI Satellite Situation Center (SSC) . ...

Turning the Camera Skyward . A reconfigured camera can take wide-field exposures of astronomical objects (constellations, the Milky Way, zodiacal light, moving artificial satellites, meteor showers, variable stars, etc.) to reveal much fainter objects and structures than seen by naked eye. ... This picture reveals objects more than 2.5 times fainter than can be seen by the naked eye, including not only stars but also the Orion nebula (M42), where new stars are being born. ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.4 > Miscellaneous Documentation . ... This page documents all the relevant standards that the Apache HTTP Server follows, along with brief descriptions. ... http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.php - RFC Errata . ... This document summarizes the history of HTML development, and defines the "text/html" MIME type by pointing to the relevant W3C recommendations. ... HTML documents are SGML documents. ...