Next: MARK5 and EVLBI Up: Recording Systems. ... These are specified in the SCHED station catalog with the paramters CONTROL , DAR , RECORDER and DISK . The first element is the control system -- what software (and hardware) is used to control the recording system. The options that SCHED can handle for wide band VLBI observations are VLBA and VEX. ... The new control system will initially just control the new data aquisition system and recorder. ...

Magnetic field measurements onboard the Interball Tail spacecraft are carried out by the FM-3I instrument which consists of two flux-gate magnetometers covering two different ranges: [-200, +200] nT and [-1000, +1000] nT. Besides scientific goals, the FM-3I experiment data is used to perform the attitude control of the Interball Tail spacecraft. ... August 22, 1995 . ... October 18, 1995 . Top of the page . ... Back to the Interball Home Page . ...

... Richard F. Gordon, Jr. ... NASA Astronaut (former) . ... ORGANIZATIONS: Fellow, American Astronautical Society; Associate Fellow, Society of Experimental Test Pilots; and Navy League. ... Gordon, R. F., FJ-4B FUEL CONSUMPTION AND PERFORMANCE REPORT, Flight Test, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 1958. ... In 1957, he attended the Navy's Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland, and served as a flight test pilot until 1960. ... He served as backup pilot for the Gemini 8 flight. ...

... Tracking stations will be selected in accordance with the schedule issued daily by the General Operative Control Group (GOCG) in Lavochkin Association with the gaps in operations during spacecraft contact with the control stations (CS). ... Communication frequencies (carrier): high data rate information transmission downlink from the SRT ­ 15.000 GHz; uplink synchronization ­ 7.2075 GHz; downlink synchronization ­ 8.400 GHz. ...

Lunar Orbiter 2 . ... The Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from November 18 to 25, 1966, and readout occurred through December 7, 1966. ... The two separate lens, shutter, and platen systems utilized the same film supply and recorded imagery simultaneously in adjacent areas on 70-millimeter film. ...

OptInt PmWiki . MROI Fast Tip Tilt / . Tech Meet 13 . ... Page History | ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Technical Meetings . ... Meetings . ... MROI DL Design Contract Private Material . ... Return to Tech Meet 13 ( Edit ) . ... November 18, 2010, at 03:42 PM by jsy1001 - . ... This meeting took place at 11:00 on Thursday 18 October 2010. ... GUI should allow connections from multiple subsystems (processes) e.g. system controller, enclosure environmental controller, DL metrology . ...

... File format . ... The p12mProg is the AO control program for the 12 meter telescope. ... the time from the tick, till when we complete the status read from the device. ... P12M_STAT_BLK struct (read from controller via group read at tick) . ... azimuth master 32bit status word . ... dbl . ... azimuth error read from controller. ... azimuth velocity read back from controller deg/sec . ... elevation position read back from controller. stBlk.elErr_D . ... elevation velocity read back from controller . ...

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. ... Information on the NTP architecture, protocol and algorithms can be found in the following articles and reports, which are available online . Mills, D.L. Internet time synchronization: the Network Time Protocol. ... Mills, D.L. Network Time Protocol (Version 3) specification, implementation and analysis. ...

SIC has two redundant NSSC-Is, only one can be on at a time . SIC has two redundant STINTs (interface units), paired with the NSSC-Is . Redundant unit has been off since launch . SIC has 8 memory units, each with 8k 18 bit words . Either NSSC-I can access full complement of memory . Gathers science data from SIs and forwards on to spacecraft for recording or downlink . Gathers and formats engineering data from SIs and forwards on to NSSC-I and spacecraft . ... Previous slide . ...

... Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light must suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. ... Just after the Moon set but before the Sun rose in the early morning hours of August 12, meteors pelted the Earth from the direction of the constellation Perseus, while ions pelted the Earth from the Sun. ... New images of Titan's surface were released last week from the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope featuring the finest details yet resolved. ...

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Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

Spectrometric complex of RATAN-600. ... There is a system of stable computer driven local oscillators that have accuracy about 10 to degree -8. ... Spectrometer driving system is accomplished with two DVK-4 computers and one IBM PC and make possible to develop radio line observations on the frequency band pass of the input low noise amplifiers ( LNA ): . ... The performance of spectrometric complex is controlled by program driving system ( PDS ) and the data gathering and recording system ( DGS ). ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory reports that October 2014 was warmer than the average for the month, with an average temperature of 10.7 degrees Celsius, approximately 0.6 C warmer than the most recent 30-year ( 1981тАУ2010 ) average October temperature at Armagh , which is 10.12 C. This month also recorded the highest maximum temperature on record at Armagh for Halloween, that is ...

... Ham packet radio system including: . ... control computer RSC 2. dedicated software monitoring generation of probing pulses in onboard transceiver in radio beacon mode; . ground receiving network of ham radio packet communication to record probing pulses of onboard radio beacon; . ... Generation of onboard radio beacon probing pulses as time marks to ground receiving network (including ham radio receivers of USW) and transmission of the measurement results throughout Internet network. ...

... The capabilities of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Gunn et al. 1999) telescope control system have been enhanced by selective integration with components of the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) toolkit. ... Given the problem of how to examine the data we proposed a utilization of the standard Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) toolkit to provide graphical interfaces to both archived data and to network-based access of real-time TPM channels. ...

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The APO 3.5-meter Remote Observing 2002 and Beyond . A Stray Light Analysis of the Apache Point Observatory 3.5-meter Telescope System . ... Telescope Control Computer (TCC) papers . MILT , the NSF proposal for the 3.5m telescope (no figures yet) . ... Collimation of the 3.5m telescope . ... Gives details of the coordinate conversions used to control the telescope, including the focal-plane conversions needed for positioning the rotator and guide camera and performing drift scans. ...

... 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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Posted on March 14, 2012 | 23 Comments How big is the largest known star? ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on November 10, 2011 | ... 2 Comments Once planets orbiting other stars were unknown as they could not be directly observed. ... 5 Comments Once exoplanets, worlds orbiting other stars, were the stuff of science fiction but now we know of literally hundreds of real alien planets circling other stars. ...