Next: Photometric Corrections Up: Long-Slit and 1D Previous: Long-Slit and 1D . This chapter describes the long-slit љ reduction package in a general way. ... The package provides about 50 basic commands to perform the calibration and to display the results, defined in the context LONG . ... The context SPEC is a low-level context including general utility commands required by the different spectroscopy packages ECHELLE , IRSPEC and LONG . ... This interface is described in the Appendix . ...

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

... To be read in conjunction with Section 7.6 of the WFPC2 Instrument Handbook , Version 4.0 Dithering is the act of displacing the telescope between observations either on integral pixel scales (to assist in removing chip blemishes such as hot pixels) or on sub-pixel scales (to improve final image resolution). ... In particular, at the time of the last writing, our experience in removing cosmic rays from singly dithered data (i.e., only one image per pointing) was quite limited. ...

... IRAF View . This is the orientation of the image as viewed in an image display via IRAF (e.g. ximtool, saoimage). Note: This is different from the orientation of the image as viewed on a Macintosh, via Remark . ... A +X, +Y instrument offset will move a star in the direction indicated by the arrows. ... Note: The offset direction depends upon which interface the offset command was issued in! ... Note: This is different from the orientation of the image as viewed by IRAF. ...

Simulations for ALMA: Discussion points Robert Laing European Instrument Scientist Simulations for ALMA IRAM, Sept 8 -11 2008 Issues for the user What simulations are needed to help (inexperienced) users? ... What can we do to promote collaboration ALMA 3 Robert Laing European Instrument Scientist Simulations for ALMA Technical Issues Voltage patterns Critical for I and polarization Start with EM simulations; then use measurements Can we do better than MEM / multiscale clean? ...

... The only event-driven pieces of software were the user interface Hermes, the display server GIDS and the GDS server. ... Event-driven tasks are fundamentally different from procedural tasks. ... Using this event handling, a collection of routines has been built, which allows the programmer to construct a graphical user interface for a task. ... These are the events associated with user input keywords and one other event which is generated when a task is resumed after it was pausing. ...

Next: CCD Operation Up: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) Previous: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) . ... However it is only now that a number of important X-ray astronomical applications of CCDs have reached critical development stages, so that this is an appropriate time to review the application of space-borne CCD instruments to cosmic X-ray astronomy, and highlight the particular concerns which are being addressed for X-ray instruments, as distinct from optical applications. ...

Distributed Software for Observations in Near Infrared V. Gavryusev 1 and C. Baffa Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri E. Giani Dipartamento di Astronomia, Universit`a di Firenze Abstract. ... The processes denoted for control of hardware (telescope and other instruments) should be executed currently on PC dedicated for this task under DESQview/X, while all other components (user interface, tools for the data analysis, etc.) can work also under Unix. ... 1993, Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ...

... 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 . ...

Magnetic field measurements onboard the Interball Tail spacecraft are carried out by the FM-3I instrument which consists of two flux-gate magnetometers covering two different ranges: [-200, +200] nT and [-1000, +1000] nT. Besides scientific goals, the FM-3I experiment data is used to perform the attitude control of the Interball Tail spacecraft. ... August 22, 1995 . ... October 18, 1995 . Top of the page . ... Back to the Interball Home Page . ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Choosing the Right Microscope . ... On most microscopes the specimen glass remains fixed while the microscope's objective lens and eyepiece move as a unit up or down to focus the image. ... Eyepieces of varying powers work with objective lenses of varying powers to yield a range of microscope magnifications. ... Magnification: The effective magnification of a microscope is determined by multiplying the eyepiece power by the objective lens power . ... about meade |...

At Arecibo we have a variety of optical instruments that we use to study terrestrial airglow emissions. ... As a complement to the airglow instrumentation we also maintain a set of optical instruments, called lidars, used for "active" remote sensing of the atmosphere. That is, we generate our own source signal using lasers and measure the characteristics of the light scattered back from the atmosphere. ... An operations manual for the Optical Laboratories is currently under major revision. ...

Pixels , slits and facets for the NGST NIRSpec: Appendix ST-ECF Instrument Science Report NGST 2002-01a Pixels , slits and facets for a MEMS-type spectrograph for NGST Appendix : Extension to different PSF and detector properties Santiago Arribas, Peter Jakobsen, Robert Fosbury Wolfram Freudling --1-- ST-ECF Instrument Science Report NGST 2002-01a Pixels , slits , and ... This PSF meets the two requirements established by Bely et al. for the OTA optical quality. ...

... On the coude focus of 1-m (Zeiss-1000) telescope have installed two echelle spectrometers: CEGS and HELEN. Both spectrometers have been designed by Musaev F.A. and oriented for spectroscopy of relatively bright stars with different spectral resolution. ... spectral resolution R~40000, range 3200 - 10100 Angstroms - registered simultaneously with 1242x1152 CCD (see example of CCD image of Solar spectrum, obtained with 1252x1152 CCD - about 100 spectral orders are seen (151Kb jpeg file ). ...

... UNIX and Linux don't incorporate the user interface into the kernel; instead, they let it be implemented by user level programs. ... This arrangement makes the system more flexible, but has the disadvantage that it is simple to implement a different user interface for each program, making the system harder to learn. ... X also does not implement a user interface; it only implements a window system, i.e., tools with which a graphical user interface can be implemented. ... Sun May 4 14:08:43 EEST 1997...

... It allows observations of extended and starlike objects in different modes: CCD photometry, panoramic spectroscopy with the Fabry-Perot interferometer, spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry with a "long-slit", slit-free spectroscopy, multi-object spectroscopy. ... Digital servo drives that were installed have improved the reliability of the complex, extended the range severalfold, and reduced the telescope's speed control step. ... A software and hardware set for the BTA control system was implemented...

... 2001 May 1 . Antarctica Hears Little Normal Matter in the Big Bang . ... Sunday, independent collaborations behind three such instruments announced evidence that overtones heard are consistent with our universe having only about five percent normal matter and 95 percent dark matter or dark energy . This amount of normal matter was expected were our universe to have undergone a particularly explosive early phase of the big bang known as inflation . ... About APOD | ...

Next: One example Up: No Title Previous: No Title . Wavelets are versatile tools of harmonic analysis. Because of their many uses, the word `wavelet' comes with different connotations (and different promises) to users in different fields. ... To pursue the analogy, one may wish to select from the data some contact surfaces with specific finish tolerances. the amount of information is then reduced by selection and/or by statistical means. ...