Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...

The VLTI Calibrator Selector Tool is a tool intended to assist in the selection of suitable interferometric calibrators for VLTI observations with MIDI and AMBER. It uses a model of the VLTI and its instruments to assess the fringe visibility, given the observed bandpass, the geometry, spectrum, and coordinates of the target and the time at which the observations are to be made. ... The tool offers an HTML/Java based interface and consists of two pages. ... The quality flag depends on LDD_chi2. ...

... 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. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy ( Variable Stars ) 26 , No. ... Moscow 119992, Russia . ... 84/32, Moscow 117997, Russia . ... Our CCD observations compared to times of minima derived from the archival photographic plates and from the NSVS and ASAS-3 data clearly show that the orbital period of the system is variable. ... The phased light curve for the light elements . ... CCD, Moscow . ... and for the current linear light elements (in excellent agreement with the NSVS, ASAS, and our CCD observations): . ...

... Interball-Tail Magnetic field measurements . Magnetic field measurements on-board the Interball Tail Probe are carried out by the FM-3I and MIF instruments. ... FM-3 M2 magnetometer failed in February 1996, FM-3 M1 and MIF are working until now. Data presented here are the combination of the data of all magnetometers. First of all FM-3 M1 data are used, if they are absent, MIF data used and if data of both magnetometer are absent, FM-3 M2 data presented. ...

Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows XI , 1997. NASA Technical Paper # 3555 , 1997. Proceedings of European Turbulence Conference VI , 1996. ESPRI Research Report # 104, 117-143 (1996) . ... Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows X , 1995. ASME Paper 95-GT-437 , 1995. ... Invited AIAA Paper 94-2281 presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. AIAA Paper 94-2323, presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. ...

The large magnetic cloud caused by coronal mass ejection at the Sun on January 6, 1997 came to the Earth at early morning on January 10 and continue to interact with Earth's magnetosphere till January 11 (see for example home page of this event prepeared by Dr. M.Peredo http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/cloud_jan97/event.html ). ... During the days discussed here INTERBALL-1 satellite was in the magnetosphere (MS) near its dusk flunk - see the Fig. 1 for compearing. ...

... For the XRBs which are highly variable the concurrent presence of the RXTE/ASM that continuously measures their X-ray spectral states invites a new and innovative program to harness the available information to facilitate detailed studies of individual systems as well as comparative studies between classes of systems. ... This will enable them to quickly decide which data are worth putting in effort to extract and further analyze. ...

APO/GIFS Instrument Factsheet The Goddard imager and Integral Field Spectrograph (GIFS) has recently been commissioned on the APO 3.5 m telescope. This factsheet presents a high level overview of the GIFS instrument. ... GIFS Imaging The GIFS imaging mode is used for imaging science and target acquisition for the IFS mode. ... Imaging Mode pixel scale: 0.168"/pixel · Comparison to Other APO 3.5m instruments: The GIFS field of view is smaller than SPICAM, but the filter set is far more extensive. ...

... There are a lot of computer codes simulating this scattering and freely available in the Internet (see e.g. links on our JPDOC page ). ... The code and input file are available in the directory . ... A slightly modified code of Barber Hill with a C-shell and input files is available in the directory . ... The code, input and test output files are available in the directory . ... See also readme file. file. ... The code, input file and their description (a TeX file) are available in the directory . ...

The CHIANTI database consists of 4 primary ASCII files for each ion in the database. contains the energy levels in cm^(-1) It includes both experimental data and theoretical values of the levels energies. ... References: %energy levels: Shirai,T., Sugar,J., Musgrove,A., Wiese,W.L., 2000, J.Phys.Chem.Ref.Data, Monograph 8 %energy levels 30, 32: Bhatia, A.K., Doschek, G.A., 1992, ADNDT, 52, 1 %energy levels 28, 37: Kelly, R. L., 1987, J. Phys. Chem. ...

... The areas between the contours were measured automatically. The results of the measurement are represented on fig.1 The graphic shows the distribution of the height levels against their areas. ... USGS, USA Fig.1 The dependence of the distribution of the heights levels versus the area occupied Fig.2 The distribution of the areas of heights levels in the northern and southern hemispheres Fig.3 The distributions of the areas heights levels in eastern and western hemispheres of Mars ...

... 4 November 1994 . orbit . ... 0.0128 . ... orbit period . ... satellite mass . 1950 kg . scientific payload mass . 550 kg . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . 1997-2002 SMIS IKI RAN and SRC "PLANETA" Moscow, Russia. ...

... 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. ...

Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of Russian Academy of Sciences PUL Analysis Center Pulkovo IVS Analysis Center (PUL) 2009 Annual Rep ort Zinovy Malkin, Natalia Miller, Elena Popova Abstract This report briefly presents the PUL IVS Analysis Center activities during 2009 and plans for the coming year. The main topics of the investigations of PUL staff in that period were ICRF related studies, computation and analysis of EOP series, and VLBI2010 related issues. ...

Next: Research Up: Heritage Previous: Buildings Contents . The policy of the Armagh Observatory is to preserve and progressively restore the historic instruments, buildings and telescopes for future generations, and where possible make them available for display to visitors and the general public. In future years, subject to available funding, the Observatory plans to: . construct a new archive and historic instrument repository including an extension of the Library and Library Annex; . ...

... 20 GHz (AT20G) Survey . ... Data Catalogues . ... A description of the catalogue format can be found here . ... 2010, MNRAS, 402, 2403. while a more detailed analysis of the sample is presented in Massardi, M. et al., ... Optical properties of AT20G sources: Optical identifications were found by crossmatching the AT20G survey with the SuperCOSMOS database. ... The AT20G-optical catalogue is presented in Mahony E.K. et al., ... The AT20G-1FGL catalogue is presented in Mahony E.K. et al., ...

XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based telescope control program based on INDI, the Instrument-Neutral Distributed Interface. ... See the files LICENSE and COPYRIGHT for the details. ... About Epoch ----------- XmTel assumes that the telescope is set to "Epoch of Date", which means that it is using ideal celestial coordinates precisely aligned today. ... XmTel assumes that target coordinates entered from the keyboard are in the Epoch that the telescope coordinates are currently displayed in. ...

... The software enables to browse HITRAN-86 or 96 databases. It enables input first 7 atmospheric gases. ... calculate atmospheric transmittance on any pressure level, . calculate instrument transmission functions through the atmosphere, . ... The software is supplied by standard atmospheric profiles, extracted from FASCODE_3.0 FORTRAN codes (dowloaded from PL/GP), and by instrument response function for IR channels of NOAA 14 satellite (both AVHRR and HIRS, downloaded from NOAA/NESDIS). ...

Trudy GAISH, vol. LXV, 1996 . Abstracts . The global distribution of average (5 O x 5 O ) depths . of Mohorovicic discontinuity on the Earth . ... Such analysis allows detecting whether the sources of the largest anomalies reside within the Earth's core. This is possible if the limit depths of the sources exceed the depths of the core-mantle boundary. ... by Pasinok S.L. Influence of the Earth’s cover on the polar free oscillation of the Earth’s inner core is considered. ...