... The predictive power of current models (the so-called meteor forecasting) has given us the exact timing of the Leonid storms of 2001 and 2002 to the nearest hour and are now used to predict the arrival times of major annual showers such as the Perseids . ... Towards this goal, the Observatory has installed a sky-monitoring system, consisting of one medium angle (MA) and two wide-angle (WA) video cameras linked to software designed to detect motion. ... Bright Taurid Meteor . ... Meteors on Mars . ...

The late afternoon (10/23) weather cleared beautifully and the camera was transported to the 2.5m enclosure. Mike, Jim, and Jeff Pier take the strain on the camera. Mike positions the truck in the 3.5m enclosure and the camera is lifted onto the truck. ... APO's most experienced pickup driver (Jon Davis) is assigned the task of driving the camera to the enclosure, while Jim, Mike, Dave Woods ride with the camera in the back, and et al "chase" the truck with cameras and applause. ...

See SBIG or APOGEE for instructions on building and installing the software for your camera. It helps to have a recent Linux operating system installed. This version of XmCCD has been developed and tested on 64-bit OpenSuse 12.2. ... With recent versions of Linux, ds9, and xpa you must add this to the local profile (e.g. in /etc/profile.local for global use): export XPA_METHOD=local Otherwise, you will see an error message when ds9 starts, and xmccd and ds9 cannot communicate. ...

... Keywords: mmap, vmalloc, DMA, and Interrupts . ... Here is an interesting/odd problem that has arisen while trying to setup a large buffer of memory allocated by a kernel driver to be remapped into user space. ... I am using the 2.0.33 kernel, initially with Matt Welsh's bigphysarea and recently using vmalloc and the example of remapping virtual memory example in Alessandro Rubini's "Linux Device Drivers". ... The driver functions very well until I start trying to use the remapped memory. ...

... A modern driver for a device will find out the bus-resource configuration without you having to tell it anything. ... In the worst case you must hard-code the bus-resources into the kernel (or a module) and recompile. In the middle are cases such as where you run a program to give the bus-resource info to the driver or put the info in a configuration file. ... You give such bus-resources as a parameter to the kernel or to a loadable module. ... Setserial is often run from a start-up file. ...

create.vbs *** ' ' Usage: cscript create.vbs <image file> ' Example: cscript create.vbs testimage.fit ' ' Uses the ASCOM FITS image driver ' --> http://www.easysky.de/ASCOM/Image/FITS.htm ' to create a new FITS file from scratch ' and sets some example properties. ... WScript.Echo WScript.Echo "creating " & filename & ".. ...

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... Currently a 50MHz 486DX PCBrand personal computer, located on the fourth floor in the warm room in lab number 443C, is used to control the charge coupled devices (CCDs). ... The PC is connected to a monitor and keyboard in the warm room and another pair in the dome itself. ... An intercom system simplifies communication between the dome and the warm room. ... The second intercom in the dome is used for two way communication between the dome and the warm room. ...