... Procedure . ... Wind Baffle Pendant Control, located in the 2.5m enclosure. Spreader Bar for wind baffle counterweights, located behind the Machine shop. ... Wind baffle frame tied to eyebolt in floor. ... Move the inner white wind baffle counterweight from the temporary mounting blocks at the front of the wind baffle frame to the standard location at the back. ... Rig the secondary truss to the overhead crane using a large shackle and 4 long nylon straps (load capacity of 1000 Lb. each). ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . The Troughton equatorial, 2-inch aperture, 3-feet focal length, arrived in December 1795 and was mounted, in the English style, under the south dome on two stone piers resting on a massive pillar, round which the staircase of the dwelling house winds. ... The correction of observations made with equatorial instruments was the subject of a study by T. R. Robinson the results of which were published in the Trans. ...

XmTel uses the XPA interface for extensible connection to the operating system and scripting. ... Support for several commercial telescopes and controllers under Linux .. ... Software Bisque Paramount ME (requires RTS2 library) . ... In the current version of XmTel .. ... Offers command line and scripted operation using XPA . ... Version 7 includes the XPA server, telescope drivers, a client, utility software, and a standalone option that does not use XPA. ... Previous versions and support for INDI . ...

... Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are currently by far the most widely used type of detector in astronomy. ... After a brief introduction to the VLT Control System, the VLT CCD Detectors Control Software is presented. The VLT Control System is a distributed system consisting of a set of UNIX Workstations, dedicated to high level operations, such as coordination of sub-system activities and interface to the users, and VME-based Local Control Units (LCU), dedicated to the control of sub-systems hardware. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

Phobos 1 and 2 to Mars . ... Launch Date: July 7, 1988 (Phobos 1) and July 21, 1988 (Phobos 2) . ... Phobos 1, and its companion spacecraft Phobos 2, were the next-generation in the Venera-type planetary missions, succeeding those last used during the Vega 1 and 2 missions to comet P/Halley . ... perform observations of the Sun ; . ... Below these were mounted four spherical tanks containing hydrazine for attitude control and, after the main propulsion module was to be jettisoned, orbit adjustment. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... ClassљList . ... Refraction Class Reference . ... virtual voidљ . forward ( Vec3d &altAzPos) const . ... backward ( Vec3d &altAzPos) const . Remove refraction from position ("reduce"). ... forward ( Vec3f &altAzPos) const . ... setupGLSLTransform ( StelGLSLShader *shader) . ... virtual void Refraction::backward . ... virtual void Refraction::disableGLSLTransform . ... virtual void Refraction::forward . ... virtual void Refraction::setGLSLUniforms . ...

... The computer is set up so that the software for whatever camera is running and the switch box set to channel B. This allows the monitor and keyboard upstairs to operate the computer. Now the telescope can be set up. ... In the North west of the dome, there is a motor that turns the dome. The dome opens with a motor that pulls the slit back. ... Each camera had a specific alignment with the telescope. ... The lights on the roof provide a nice target to center in all three telescopes. ...

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): . ...

... Average resolution at altitude H=668 km . ... Swath width at H=668 km and inclination of beginning of swath 20.48 degrees . ... Resolution at H=668 км . ... Наименование параметра . ... 1 канале . ... Полоса обзора при H=668 км . ... 1-5 спектральной зоне, не более . ... 1 спектральной зоне . 0,48-0,52 мкм . ... 0,915-0,997 мкм . ... 1-4 канал . ... 1-4 каналов . ... Спектральные характеристики каналов (по уровню 0,5): . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

of the RadioAstron Teleconference 5 . ... The agenda of the teleconference and the list of participants are attached as an Appendix A to the Minutes. The main intent of the teleconference was to discuss current status of mission development. ... He ensured the participants that funding for 2004 is sufficient to provide development of all scientific payload at the ASC as well as to cover the development of the spacecraft bus at LA. ... Andreyanov V., ASC, Russia . ... Altunin V.I., JPL, USA . ...

Restoration of the vector velocity field of NGC 157 are based on the observations at 6-m telescope of Special Astrophysical Observatory RAS in 1995. ... The data reductions (phase recalibration, flatfielding, velocity calculations etc.) were made by using software ADHOC developed in the Marseille Observatory. ... This figure is produced with the help of software VORTEX developed in the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ...

SYM53C4xx SCSI Interface Adapter Cards These questions and answers are for any SCSI interface card that uses any Symbios Logic (or old NCR)53C400, 53C400A, 53C406, and 53C406A chips and connects to an ISA bus in the host. ... Are there drivers available for my card to operate under any operating system besides DOS? ... Yes, provided the manufacturer of the device provides a device driver for the scanner to operate from an pci/host adapter card that has a Symbios Logic scsi processor chip on it. ...

... Home Articles An Asymmetrical Mount For a 17.5? Newtonian . ... Beyond New York City . ... An Asymmetrical Mount For a 17.5" Newtonian . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... I live in New York City. ... The basic Dobsonian design uses a mirror box. ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

Introduction 1 Observatory Control and Astronomical Analysis System. ... OCAAS is a complete UNIX software package for the local and remote operation of an astronomical observatory. ... It controls all aspects of the telescope mount, CCD camera, filter wheel, focuser, weather instrumentation, power supply, GPS receiver, internet or phone line communications, dome and shutter hardware. ... 1.2 Main Control Features. ... OCAAS can perform an automatic focus procedure at any time under operator control. ...

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. ...

Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute Specification 2.5 m telescope with enclosure version 7.6 |Number|Item description, type |Quanti| | ... 1000 |2.5 m mirror telescope system |1 | ... lightweighting) must provide the short time of | ... stations (ports) must be provided. ... 1006 |Nasmyth focal stations must be provided with a deployable| | ... must be provided. ... Telescope control system and environment conditions | ... 2005 |Camera shutter must provide unvignetted CCD field, | ...

Magnetic Stars, 2011, pp. ... Almost 14 000 medium­resolution (R 15 000) polarimetric spectra of 65 O­F type stars have been obtained since then in the course of three ongoing pro jects: the DAO Magnetic Field Survey, supporting the observations for the CFHT MiMeS survey, and an investigation of the systematic differences between the observed longitudinal field, measured with the H line and metallic lines. ... Figure 2: Longitudinal field measurements of the well­known magnetic star 2 CVn. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision consists of the engineer support group: 4 senior engineers, 5 engineers and 14 staff members of service personnel. Head: Zavorin A. V. The main subdivision's instrument is the Incoherent Scatter Radar . The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision's main task is technical support of Irkutsk IS radar experiments. ...

. Shown here is my first self made instrument, which I designed and built from 1995 to 2001. It is the 110-mm f / 7,3 Newtonian reflector on the German equatorial mounting. Your can see two versions of the mounting and some fotos of details.