... 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 | ...

... Will need some form of administration to stop some users `camping' in channels or using bands allocated to other services. e.g. Bands used by radioastronomers given in footnotes 5.340 & 5.149 Could the software in a cognitive radio system be hacked so that it checks for transmissions in unauthorised bands, which, if they are passive bands, would find them to be quiet, and would then start transmitting ? ... All spectrum to be shared ? ... The `free' spaces resulting are called `TV White Spaces'. ...

... Software requirements . ... SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application used by SAS . ds9 latest stable version 4.12 works fine with SAS 7.1.0 . ... We recommend the installation of HEASOFT version 6.0 (HEADAS) or later, since SAS 7.1.0 was built with that version (except for Mac OS X where version 5.3 was used). ... To work with this release of SAS on any Mac OS X version, the X Windows software or X11 (a.k.a X11R6) for Mac Os X must be installed . ...

This note outlines how to configure the computers needed to run DIMMWIT. ... dimmwit : ICE (single-board computer in a box) that runs the Starlight Express CCD camera, to which it is connected by a USB interface. dimmwithost : displays the finder application via the X protocol (finder actually runs on dimmwit). Acts as a file server; both the finder software and the DIMM data are stored on dimmwithost. ... mkdir -p /data/oberon/data/finder . chown coast:coast /data/oberon/data/finder . ...

... Next: The PROS Big Up: Software Systems Previous: Data Reduction Software . ... The srcinten task provides PROS users with a tool to compute count rates for point sources in the ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI). ... Corrected upper limits are cited at locations where the count rate falls below the source detection threshold. ... Srcinten is a new PROS task that computes and applies the above correction factors to the net counts in a user-specified aperture. ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

Help on Resolving Technical Problems This document outlines procedures for resolving technical problems due to conflicts, installation or configuration of MGA products. ... To help isolate the problem try the following steps: 1) Try a clean boot of your system to see if anything in AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS files is causing the problem. ... Software Problems For problems with software applications or drivers, try reconfiguring the graphics adapter to run VGA. ... MGA products are memory-mapped. ...

... System . By using software standards provided by most computer manufactures, ESO-MIDAS runs on VMS and OpenVMS systems (Trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation) =, a large variety of UNIX (Trademark of AT ) platform, as well as one personal computers (386, 486, Pentium) running Linux. ... IBM/AIX RS/6000 systems; . ... The full MIDAS system requires of the order of 20 Mbyte of disk storage if shared libraries ( e.g. SUN, PC/Linux) are available, otherwise up to 100 Mbyte may be needed. ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

... 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 Further Information and Bibliography page. The Building and Installing the Distribution page presents an overview of the procedures for compiling the distribution and installing it on a typical client or server. ...

... Finding Stars . ... Handling Bad Pixels . ... The guide camera image controller can control one or more guide cameras. ... Each time the camera is read, the image is automatically saved to a fits file on a shared disk. ... Cameras that have bad pixels require "bad pixel maps" in order to find stars, centroid or even compute statistics for the image. ... View this image (for instance in NIH Image) and determine an upper and lower cutoff; pixels whose values are outside of this range are considered...

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... public class TiffDecoder . ... static int . ... Field Detail public static final int NEW_SUBFILE_TYPE . ... public static final int IMAGE_WIDTH . ... public static final int IMAGE_LENGTH . ... public static final int BITS_PER_SAMPLE . ... public static final int COMPRESSION . ... public static final int PHOTO_INTERP . ... public static final int IMAGE_DESCRIPTION . ... public static final int STRIP_OFFSETS . ... public static final int ORIENTATION . ... public static final int SAMPLES_PER_PIXEL . ...

TransNix is the software that will control the three different processors involved in the detector control and in the low-level data handling. ... the DSP 56001 processor, that sends to the detector chip the clock wave patterns; . ... the host computer, responsible of writing the raw data on disk, and communicating between the TransNix and the high level software (XNIR); in the laboratory versions, it will be based on an Intel processor, using Linux as operative system,. ...

... Required qualifications: BS in Electronics Engineering. ... Required qualifications: BS in Electronics Engineering or Electronics Technology field with three to five years experience in operation, calibration and maintenance of high-voltage equipment or equivalent combination. Supervisory experience required. ... Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, with more than five but less than seven years experience or equivalent combination. ...

function chanarf, rmfstr , effar , spec = spec , chnrg = chnrg ,verbose=verbose, _extra=e ;+ ;function chanarf ; compute the average effective area over each channel, as a ; weighted average of ... difference mainly for low and medium spectral ; resolution data. for high-res grating data, not so much. ; ;syntax ; carf=chanarf( rmfstr , effar , spec = spec ) ; ;parameters ; ...

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... spectrum . ... The photons we detect originate in the outermost layers, or atmosphere, of the star. In order to interpret stellar spectra, it is necessary to construct models which accurately represent the structure of a stellar atmosphere and the transfer of radiation from the stellar interior into interstellar space. For the study of helium stars and other stellar remnants, we in Armagh use several computer programs, of which sterne and spectrum are the most important. sterne . ...

NGC OPTICAL SOFTWARE Claudio Cumani NGC Presentation - 2008, July 16 Differences btw IR and OPT detector controllers: intrinsic 2 "Exposure" handling Optical Rigid scheme for exposures (wipe - integrate - ["move charges on detector while integrating"] - read ). Active intervention of the control-server during the exposure is ti ti th th required (application of new voltages in each state). ... Starting an exposure = starting transfer and storage of data. ...