ICC/Hub Software Overview Requirements · · · · Monitor and control the instrument's robotics. ... Design · · Computer and software is in the computer room, named the ICC, which means Instrument Control Computer. Instrument's robotics and telemetry uses smart Ethernet I/O devices. ... Filter wheel changes for a variety of different wheel types (mix of filter sizes and number of filters in a wheel). ... Imager Robotics and Telemetry Requirements · · · · · · Stepper motor for filter wheel. ...

... 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. ...

NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... Visitor Center . ... Optical . Lidar . At Arecibo we have a variety of optical instruments that we use to study terrestrial airglow emissions. ... This equipment is located in our Optical Laboratory, which is on site about 1000 feet from the center of the incoherent scatter radar. ... The various observational modes that are available are described in supplementary documentation for the Arecibo Observatory Optical Laboratories. ...

... Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are currently by far the most widely used type of detector in astronomy. ... After a brief introduction to the VLT Control System, the VLT CCD Detectors Control Software is presented. The VLT Control System is a distributed system consisting of a set of UNIX Workstations, dedicated to high level operations, such as coordination of sub-system activities and interface to the users, and VME-based Local Control Units (LCU), dedicated to the control of sub-systems hardware. ...

A spectrometer with 16 input channels (8 dual polarization), based on the ALMA Tunable Filter Board. ... A. Russo, G. Comoretto: Spettrometri a correlazione e a FFT per il radiotelescopio SRT , Arcetri technical report 1/2005 . G. Comoretto, A. D'Ambrosi, R. Nesti, A. Russo, F. Palagi: A modular multichannel spectrometer - design study Arcetri technical report 4/2006 . ... G. Comoretto, G. Tuccari: Reference design for the Digital BBC Architecture Arcetri technical report 2/2008 ...

... I have compiled a list of throughput filter curves from a variety of telescopes, instruments, and surveys. Click on the name of the filter to download it. The first line of each filter is the zeropoint for that filter. If the filter is in the AB system, it is listed as 0.0 (or in otherwords -48.55). ... Filter . Effective Wavelength . ... A_V . ... 0.987 . ... 0.050 . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > Instrumentation Development > VLT/Instrument Interfaces . ... APEX Visitor Instrument . ... The interfaces between the VLT Unit Telescopes and the scientific instruments to be operated at the VLT Cassegrain, Nasmyth and Coudц© foci are well defined. ... Interface and numerous other relevant information for instrument builders is available in the "Requirements for Scientific Instruments on the VLT Unit Telescopes" , ESO doc. no. ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... Science Instrument Downselect . ... Page History | ... PmWiki . ... PmWiki FAQ . ... pmwiki.org . ... Return to Science Instrument Downselect ( Edit ) . ... Proc. SPIE paper on downselect . ... March 09, 2007, at 05:30 PM by John Young - Status from 2006/10/12 update (see attachment) . ... Complete . ... P4S combiner optimization . ... P4S switchyard optimization . ... P8 combiner optimization . ... P8 (internal) switchyard optimization . ... Due 2006/07/31 . ... Due Date . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System Instruction Manual . ... Remove the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System from the telescope or camera. Use the supplied hex wrench to remove the three screws from the telescope side of the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System. Position your Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System to align with the diagram below. ... Carefully screw each filter into the wheel, and re-assemble the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System. ...

... 64] 7 Outputs Set by 7 Secondary 9 BS Adders Ctrl { Auto , Manual } Auto Defaults TestOnly 10 BS Adders Mode {Bypass, Add} Bypass Defaults Enabled by 9 =M Dependent 11 BU O/P Spectrum* { Natural , Flipped} Natural Outputs Primary 12 BL O/P Spectrum* { Natural , Flipped}* Natural Outputs ... 255] 140 Defaults Enabled by <23>=M Dependent < > 26 I/P AGC Control {Auto, Manual} Auto Defaults Primary < > 27 Manual Gain [0.. ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... GRB 100131A: MASTER-Amur alert observations 76 sec after Notice time.The limit of the main telescope images is aboute 15 mag (unfiltered). ... All news ...

... This method is called once when the filter is loaded. ... This method should return a flag word that specifies the filters capabilities. ... With CONVERT_TO_FLOAT, the filter is called with the image data converted to a FloatProcessor (3 times per image for RGB images). ImageJ will lock the image before calling this method and unlock it when the filter is finished. For PlugInFilters specifying the NO_IMAGE_REQUIRED flag and not the DONE flag, run(ip) is called once with the argument null . ...

... BOM2 and the basic block of solar limbograph including pointing and control systems ? ... Fine tracking platform (FTP) for Sun tracking by the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... Tracking system frequency ? ... Controller of the control system and solar fine tracking of the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... The basic relative construction of the elements and instrumental blocks of the "Astrometria" space experiment is shown on the block diagram of units within the complex of SL-200 solar...

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... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . Dept. for Space Plasma Physics . Dept. for Physics of Minor Celestial Bodies . Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . Dept. for Solar Physics . ... Solar telescopes . ... 2016,MNRAS, 2016MNRAS.tmp.. ... Evans A., Pavlenko Ya.V., Kaminsky B.M., et al.Modelling the spectral energy distribution of the red giant in RS Ophiuchi: evidence for irradiation. ... Equipment . ... All Pages . Page 4 of 5 . ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

... Automatic real-time control of scientific instruments and/or operational units, data processing, storage and transfer. ... This PC104-based device is a robust real-time control system of high reliability and readiness with possibility of embedding. QNX operational system allows using sophisticated software, multitasking, TCP/IP protocols and modern friendly user interface. ... Ilya Chulkov, Head of laboratory +7(495)333-45-23, http://lex.iki.rssi.ru , ilya@hea.iki.rssi.ru . ...

... example, note below the dramatic speedup in searching a 1 Gb file using an AND filter, even when one of the columns (pha) has no index : time fundisp \ huge.fits'[idx_activate=0,idx_debug=1,pha= 2348 4000 4000 1]' \ x y pha x y pha ---------- ----------- ---------- 3999.48 4000.47 2348 3999.48 4000.47 2348 3999.48 4000.47 2348 3999.48 4000.47 2348 3999.48 4000.47 2348 ... Currently, indexed filtering only works with FITS binary tables and raw event files. ...

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... 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. ...