... TROUBLE SHOOTING AT THE TELESCOPE . ... This can be caused by two things: . ... To fix, just type "disc on". ... To see if this is your problem, go to some other window on observer and type "df -k /export/obs8". ... This may be caused by you having typed either a square or curly bracket ([ or {) on the datataking window. ... To fix, go into the "datataking" window and type "pnt tol 10.0" to reset the pointing tolerance to 10 seconds. "aog generic if1Prog@da err" error when sourcing your set-up file ...

... The schedule assigned id (example: AS05) for your observing program. ... Use the time you started using the telescope including when you started taking calibrations. The time you opened for on sky observations can be entered later in the activity log. UTC End Time: . ... Focus Log: . ... The focus position can be obtained under the Telescope column of the System Status in ACP or from the run log. ... When all fields are filled out press this button to email the log to the ARCSAT and community. ...

... VLBI Schedule . ... Observers Wiki . Schedules . ... Main / . Locate VNC session "pksvnc1", to be found on (usually) the left-most screen of the 4-headed control room machine. ... On the leftmost desktop in this session find the "oprin" window and type; . ... To start a new observing schedule type the following; . ... The second of the four connected displays (on "bourbon") is displaying the VNC session "vlbi's PkMk5B ", which is running on pictor:2 using the vlbi VNC password. ...

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... I fixed the bugs that caused the map_point changes to fail tests. Then I removed the no longer needed dimensional variables from the p structure and got those changes to pass all the tests. ... I put the code under subversion control in a new branch called refactor. ... The code change which processes each drizzle kernel over an entire image rather than a line at a time now passes the unit tests and was checked in. ... I got the keywords argument changes done and got the tests to pass. ...

... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract MOS spectra of a point-like source observed in Imaging mode and to create associated response matrices, starting from a calibrated, concatenated event list (either produced with emproc or available as PPS product; here it has the assumed file name MOS.fits ). ... The users should note that the SAS metatask xmmselect allows them to interactively define source and background regions (via ds9) and to run backscale on the fly. ...

... Single and Multi-dimensional Arrays . Strings . ... BEWARE: In C Array subscripts start at 0 and end one less than the array size. ... In C Strings are defined as arrays of characters. ... char name[50]; C has no string handling facilities built in and so the following are all illegal : . ... In order to allow variable length strings the 0 character is used to indicate the end of a string. ... Write a C program to read through an array of any type. ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... How Apache Starts . ... If the Listen specified in the configuration file is default of 80 (or any other port below 1024), then it is necessary to have root privileges in order to start apache, so that it can bind to this privileged port. ... The recommended method of invoking the httpd executable is to use the apachectl control script. ... Trying to start the server when there is another instance of Apache or some other web server already bound to the same Port....

... Indiana Jones is a registered trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. ... There's the intrigue of the megaliths of Stonehenge, the ancient pyramids of Egypt, the earthen figures of Britain and Peru, and the bloody rituals of the Maya. ... To make sense of these great structures and sophisticated concepts, archaeologists and astronomers have pooled their talents. ... People could use these alignments to synchronize their calendars or track the exact path of a celestial object. ... Maya glyphs of Venus. ...

Underdetermined sets is a new type of data structures (terms) developed in Actor Prolog . ... The point is that an underdetermined set can include some indefinite rest (a tail) like a list in usual Prolog . At the same time, the order of elements of an underdetermined set can be arbitrary one and it does not affect results of unification of underdetermined sets. Moreover, Actor Prolog guarantees that a rest of an underdetermined set never contains elements that are explicitly given in the set. ...

... Perhaps the most interesting satellites in this group are the ones sent into distant orbits, some of them extending well past the Moon--e.g. the WIND spacecraft pictured here. Among them is a long series of IMP s (Interplanetary Monitoring Platforms) which sampled the Earth's distant magnetic environment, the magnetosphere, and the surrounding interplanetary region; IMP-8 is still returning good data, more than 20 years after its launch. ...

Starting Apache on Windows . Starting Apache on Unix . ... If the Port specified in the configuration file is the default of 80 (or any other port below 1024), then it is necessary to have root privileges in order to start Apache, so that it can bind to this privileged port. ... As an alternative to invoking the httpd binary directly, a shell script called apachectl is provided which can be used to control the daemon process with simple commands such as apachectl start and apachectl stop . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... The view starts at the bottom of the Cerro Armazones mountain, close to ESOтАЩs Paranal Observatory, and closes in on the telescope in its enclosure during observations at night. ...

... A view from about 25 km behind the asteroid showing the terminator of the earth . ... The Asteroid agains the night side of the Earth over the indian ocean . The asteroid from the light side . ... The Trail Starts to form high in the atmosphere - Viewed from Earth orbit ~250km away . And gets brighter than the sun as it hits thicker atmosphere - Daybreak once more over the indian Ocean . High Resolution Image from the dark side of teh asteroid showing the Lense flare from the sun. ...

The target is a new candidate qLMXB found in the J1655 field of the ChaMPlane survey. ... Use SDSS u,g,r,i,z to take light curves continuously. 3-5min exposures. ... Skyflats: Take twilight skyflats starting shortly after sunset at around 6:00pm. ... Take the first Ha skyflats with adjusted exposure time (remember to turn the tracking on during exposure and off during readout). ... Take the first I filter skyflat with exposure time equal to 1/10 of the last Ha skyflat exposure. ...

... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... COSMOS-3 is the third generation telescope software system of Nobeyama Radio Observatory, which was designed to control and to monitor the 45 m telescope and Nobeyama Millimeter Array and to acquire observing data from receiver backends. ... For flexibility and system stability, COSMOS-3 has simple communication interfaces between different layers and no direct connection between subsystems at the bottom layer. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... The Real Reality Show: Would aliens be anything like us? ... The Real Reality Show: All about the Drake Equation . ... The Real Reality Show . ... The Real Reality Show: How Did Life Start on Earth? ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...