Next: Storage format Up: File Formats Required Previous: Column label: MOONALT . Information specific to a particular instrument is not so easy to categorize. ... Columns BAND and NBAND . Column FILTCODE_ n . Column NDVALUE . Column NDETUSED . Columns REDLEAK, RLTYPE, and MAKER . Instrument descriptors . ... Character descriptor FILTCAT . Character descriptor FILTSTAT . ... Columns NDET and DETNAME . Column DETCODE . Column DET . ... A simple photometer . ...

... As with previous HST instruments, the FITS header keywords in STIS data files store important information characterizing the observations and telemetry received during the observations and describe the post-observation processing of your dataset. ... Calibration information such as the calibration switches and reference files used by the pipeline and parameters derived from the calibration, such as image statistics, wavelength shifts. ... Time: 0.3 sec Number of imsets: 3 . ... Dark image correction...

The Agile window provides complete control over the Agile high-speed photometer. ... All other parameters are specified as part of the command that starts an exposure sequence. ... To connect the filter wheel controller, issue this command in the command bar at the bottom of the Log window: agile connDev fw . ... To home the filter wheel controller, issue this command in the command bar at the bottom of the Log window: agile fwhome (there must be a filter wheel mounted in Agile for homing to succeed). ...

Home About Meade Product Information Dealer Locator Customer Support Investor Relations Dealer Support Employment Opportunities Site Map . Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor XT-Series CCD Autoguider/Imagers . ... Be sure the baud rate is not set too high for your pc; check your user's manual if you are not sure. ... No SCSI Communications . ... Be sure that the SCSI id is set correctly for your camera. ... Copyright 2006 Meade Instruments Corporation, All Rights Reserved. ...

Next: Phenology Garden Up: Buildings, Grounds, Library and Previous: Buildings, Telescopes and Telescope Contents . Strong support for the provision of a new Library, Archives and Historic Scientific Instruments Building was expressed by the Board of Governors at their annual meeting in March 2004. ... During 2004 the project was advanced largely by John Butler, who prepared a detailed application for external funding to support the proposal, which is intended to be submitted to the HLF in 2005. ...

... 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. ...

... NOTE that this call also sets the state of the cal to the returned instrument. The and are obtained from respectively from the INSTRUME and DATE-OBS keywords of the dataset header. The is read from the RA_PNT , DEC_PNT and PA_PNT keywords (this is actually wrong, since the instrument attitude is what should be stored in these, not the spacecraft attitude). The boresight is then obtained for the exposure start time, and calculated by applying the boresight rotation to . ...

... 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. ...

... The Miriad task uvgen can be used to simulate a variety of observing modes. ... Simulating a telescope approximately, let alone in some detail, requires a good many parameters. uvgen takes an appreciable number of parameters and input files to describe the telescope, correlator and source. Fortunately keyword and set-up files for some common situations exist ( e.g. simulating the ATCA and VLA). ... For example, to load typical parameters for the ATCA, use miriad% source $MIRCAT/uvgen.def.atca . ...

... enabled for phoenix v2, MCALIB production . ... supporting MASTER/SLAVE model (MUSE) . ... upload to qcweb (monitor/FINISHED); on SLAVE accounts, also scp to MASTER . ... The monthly output pages list only the SCIENCE ABs (if for IDPs) or only the processed CALIB ABs. ... YES . ... YES|NO (NO); if YES, the tool checks for the marker PROCESSED_SLAVE in $DFO_SCI_DIR and thereby recognizes data content as coming from the SLAVE account (which is then marked by dark square). ... PROC_INSTRUMENT . ... ABS...

... 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. ...

Comedi Documentation . ... I assume that your hardware device is in your computer, and that you know the relevant details about it, i.e., what kind of card it is, the I/O base, the IRQ, jumper settings related to input ranges, etc. To tell the comedi kernel module that you have a particular device, and some information about it, you will be running the comedi_config command. ... The overall info gives information about the device -- basically the same information as /proc/comedi. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Integration of the NIRSpec instrument . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... One of the major milestones for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been, in September 2013, the completion by ESA of NIRSpec, the first multi-object spectrograph to be operated in space. ... Cambridge, and in particular the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, is heavily involved in NIRSpec by hosting one of the Instrument Science Team members (R. Maiolino). ...

... Despite the use of counterweights, I have had ongoing problems with preventing unwanted motion in altitude, particularly during star parties when everyone seems to want to lean on the telescope while observing. ... After some difficulties at a windy star party a few years ago at the Boston Museum of Science, I designed a simple and very effective altitude brake and slow motion control which can be assembled very quickly and at minimal cost. ... The other end of the arm attaches to a turnbuckle*. ...

... Scope of Directives .htaccess Files . ... Apache is configured by placing directives in plain text configuration files. ... Any directive may be placed in any of these configuration files. ... Apache configuration files contain one directive per line. ... Directives placed in the main configuration files apply to the entire server. ... The server administrator further controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files by configuring the AllowOverride directive in the main configuration files....

... a) As source material for the high-school or college curriculum, especially in physics. astronomy and their history. (b) As a source of supplemental projects by high school students or by undergraduates. (c) As material for independent studies, In particular by motivated students who seek to know more about space . ... Those wishing to look up specific topics are advised to use the index file, accessible from the end of any "Exploration" file. ... files not listed and at other resource material. ...

... a) As source material for the high-school or college curriculum, especially in physics. astronomy and their history. (b) As a source of supplemental projects by high school students or by undergraduates. (c) As material for independent studies, In particular by motivated students who seek to know more about space . ... Those wishing to look up specific topics are advised to use the index file, accessible from the end of any "Exploration" file. ... files not listed and at other resource material. ...

Near-Earth Asteroids and the Arecibo Observatory Radar The Arecibo Observatory radar is the world's most powerful instrument for post-discovery characterization and orbital refinement of near-Earth asteroids. Arecibo radar observations are critical for identifying asteroids that might be on collision course with Earth and, if necessary, preventing a collision. ... A model of the primary component of asteroid 1999 KW4, derived from radar data. ...

... GSAOI Home . Instrument . ... The Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) is a near-infrared adaptive optics camera that will be used with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system on the Gemini South 8-m telescope . ... Gemini's major instrumentation goal is to develop its Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system for scientific use on Gemini South. ... Existing adaptive optics systems use a single natural guide star or artifical laser guide star to measure this image blur. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision consists of the engineer support group: 4 senior engineers, 5 engineers and 14 staff members of service personnel. Head: Zavorin A. V. The main subdivision's instrument is the Incoherent Scatter Radar . The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision's main task is technical support of Irkutsk IS radar experiments. ...