Fasti is an innovative design for infrared detector control. ... to use largely accepted standards as boundaries, as a PCI bus, a parallel interface or a serial, and to use few of them . ... The building blocks of Fasti are: . ... the serial bus for controlling housekeeping devices (temperature and pressure sensors or motor controllers) and programming data acquisition . ... Though not so fast, and lacking some forms of data integrity check, this bus is so widely used to be nearly unavoidable. ...

... Acronyms and Abbreviations AMOS Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (UTM vendor) EIE FTT FLC ICD ISS European Industrial Engineering (UTE vendor) Fast Tip-Tilt First Light Camera Interface Control Document Interferometer Supervisory System NAS NMT NOT TBC TBD UT UTE UTM Narrow-field Acquisition System New Mexico Tech Nasmyth Optical ... Interface design description 2.5 FTT/NAS to ISS ICD This ICD describes the software interfaces of the FTT/NA system to the ISS. ...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

... GUIDE'' (Graphical User Interface for a Data Environment) is an interactive IDL widget-based package that enables users to retrieve selected sets of satellite instrument data and perform various types of graphical analyses on them, without writing a specialized program. GUIDE simplifies the task of laying out multiple plots on a page by (1) using a page-editor to define and laying out multiple ``panels'' which contain the ``plot objects'', and (2) integrating data retrieval functions. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

About us . ... Telescopes . ... Apart from the 6-meter telescope BTA two small telescopes are operative at SAO: the 1-m and 0.6-m telescopes, both manufactured by Carl Zeiss, Jena, are located near the BTA. ... These telescopes are used for adjusting the equipment and techniques of observations used at the BTA. ... The observational time allocation and also a brief description of the equipment of the 1-m telescope, which is used either permanently or mainly on this telescope, are presented below. ...

... Ground support equipment for aircraft electronics. ... Avionic electrical interface adapters (SABI) are used for interfacing the GSE control computer with onboard equipment of SU-30MKM aircraft. Data recorder system (SRP) is designed for readout, processing and monitoring of information, transmitted in onboard data transfer lines. Set of equipment USI-TM and USI-TM/SNI for non-contact readout from onboard data registers. ... OAO Sukhoi, OAO NIIP V. Tikhomirov. ...

... Classes . ... Class List . ... casa . casa::Sinusoid1DParam< T > . ... Parameter handling for one dimensional Sinusoid class. ... AMPLITUDE , . PERIOD , . ... Sinusoid1DParam (const T &amplitude) . Sinusoid1DParam (const T &amplitude, const T &period) . Sinusoid1DParam (const T &amplitude, const T &period, const T &x0) . ... Copy constructor (deep copy). template<class W > . ... T casa::Sinusoid1DParam < T >::amplitude . ... virtual const String & casa::Sinusoid1DParam < T >::name . ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... 4 NGC .. 5 Previous detector controllers .. ... 2.1 D6 D7 D8 D9 D10 D11 D65 D63 D64 D62 NGC NGC Requirements Specification, VLT -SPE- ESO -13660-3207, 0.3 NGC Software Requirements, VLT -SPE- ESO -13660-3670, 1.0 Next General Detector Controller ( NGC ) Technical Report, VLT -TRE-ESO13660-3900 NGC Base Software - Design Description, VLT -SPE- ESO -13660-3836, 0.1 NGC Control Software System - Optical Instruments - High Level ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... ClassљList . ... StelLocationMgr Class Reference . Manage the list of available location. ... locationForString (const QString &s, bool *ok=NULL) const . ... Get whether a location can be permanently added to the list of user locations The main constraint is that the small string must be unique. bool StelLocationMgr::deleteUserLocation . ... Return the StelLocation for a given string Can match location name, or coordinates. bool StelLocationMgr::saveUserLocation . ...

Multichannel Flare Spectrograph . ... phi - the angle between the green vertical line passing through the solar disk image and the violet radius vector "r" of the object located at the center of the spectrograph slit- red cross. positive - clockwise, negative - counterclockwise . ... mx = x coordinate of the coelostat main mirror . ... x : carthesian solar coordinate alog axis parallel to solar equator (in arcsec) . y : carthesian solar coordinate alog axis parallel to solar axis (in arcsec) ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... This API (Application Programming Interface) document has pages corresponding to the items in the navigation bar, described as follows. The Overview page is the front page of this API document and provides a list of all packages with a summary for each. ... Each package has a page that contains a list of its classes and interfaces, with a summary for each. ... Each of these pages has three sections consisting of a class/interface description, summary tables, and detailed member descriptions: . ...

... Posts tagged ?VOstat? ... Its description with toy data is given at . ... Tags: Stat , toy data , VOstat . ... Comment . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . upvc windows on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI VO Wiki . ... Program Access . SAI CAS Wiki . SAI Web Services . ... DSS Mirror . ... We provide an implementation of IVOA standard Simple Image Access Protocol interface to our DSS mirror. Service metadata is available here . Currently, we provide the atlas service only, which returns the list of original DSS images intersecting the requested sky area. ... SAI MSU | ...

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... 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. ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

Comedi Documentation . ... comedi_find_subdevice_by_type -- search for subdevice type . ... int comedi_find_subdevice_by_type (comedi_t * device, int type, unsigned int start_subdevice); . The function comedi_find_subdevice_by_type() tries to locate a subdevice belonging to comedi device device, having type type, starting with the subdevice start_subdevice. ... If it does not locate the requested subdevice, it returns -1 and sets the Comedilib error number to XXX "subdevice not found". ...