... 2016. ... Wed, Dec 30, 2015 . An alternative to using the MCS for the computationally confident is to do the work on your own computer. All the software you need is free. ... If you want to do your project in python, I suggest downloading a prepackaged Scientific Python distribution, e.g. anaconda, Enthought or pyzo. Make sure you get the python 3 distribution (python 2 versions of these distributions also exist in some cases, but python 2 is the past, python 3 is the future!) ...

Eyepieces Forum Message . ... Post . ... Re The Computer For Dob . ... Post Message | ... Yes, it is possible to put the optical tube on an equatorial mount, but I'm betting you won't. Buying a scope made for its mount will probably appeal to you more, especially because a photography-worthy mount can cost more than the optics it carries! ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... This paragraph shows the very simplest possible example of how to do the relative calibration of a CCD--frame. ... Darks . ... AVERage/IMAge DARKAV = DARK01,DARK02,DARK03,DARK04 . ... COMPute/IMAge DENOM = FLATAV-DARKAV . ... The first two commands compute the simple averages of the dark and flat field images. The third command computes the dark subtracted average flat field. ... Note that there has been no correction for bad columns in either the flat field, the dark frames or the data frames. ...

C#> gaussn.dc2 C CFunction: GAUSSN C CPurpose: GAUSSN computes the value of an N-component Gaussian C CFiles: gaussn.dc2,gaussn.shl C CAuthor: Peter Roelfsema C CCategory: UTILITY C CCall: C C GX=GAUSSN(X,PAR,NPAR) C C Input parameters: C X -R -running coordinate. C PAR -R -array defined as follows: PAR(0:NPAR*3) that C contains the parameters for the Gaussian in the following C order: C C PAR(0) -zerolevel C PAR(1) -PAR(3) -int, pos. of peak, fwhm cmp. ...

... Standard magnitudes can only be computed for the U, B and V filters and hence the only standard colours that can be calculated are U-B, B-V and U-V. An important point to note, is that these standard colours can be computed using the following instrumental colours - U-B, B-V, U-V, (UVW1-U), (UVW1-B), (UVW1-V), (UVW2-B) and (UVW2-V). Omsrclistcomb computes all possible standard magnitudes for each of the U, B and V filters and displays them in a vector column. ...

Motif and X-Windows . It is possible to execute a Motif application on a computer around the corner or around the world and redirect the input and output for the application to your workstation. There are files located on the Science Cluster to help you position and display windows from a remote VMS system. ... Copy two command files: . ... From one of the workstation windows, have the remote system execute the x command file and create the display on your workstation by using this command: . ...

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 . ...