... The FITS conversion commands INTAPE and OUTTAPE can both access FITS files on disk or directly on tape devices. Thus, it is in principle possible to use general system utilities to transfer the FITS files between disk and tape. ... In order to save disk space, it may be desirable to compress the files. ... Use OUTTAPE to write file to disk in FITS format. Compress FITS file on disk e.g. compress . Use system utility to save compressed file on tape e.g. tar . ... File naming . ...

Software . This section describes miscellaneous software, such as a spreadsheet program (20/20), a calculator (CALC), and a program for printing sky plots (FINDER). 20/20 is a spreadsheet program available on KEPLER and DEVVAX. ... To start 20/20, you would type the following command: . ... Most users will want to specify either VT100 or VT220, although there are more then 50 valid terminal types recognized by the program, including Tektronix and Wyse terminals. ... Basic Commands: . ... CALC . ...

... CentralProcessor 0.11 documentation . ... delaysolver -c delaysolver.parset [-s scheduling_block] [-f measurement_set] . ... The measurement set can be given either in the command line, or in the parset (see below). ... In this case, both previous delay values and the measurement set file name are taken from the scheduling block. ... The tool is used with -s command line option and takes the measurement set name and the fixed delay setting used during observations from the supplied scheduling block ...

XEphem Forum Message . ... Post . ... Re: Catalog Conversion Utility . ... Post Message | ... the old versions and catalogs still exist on the german mirror: . ftp://iphcip1.physik.uni-mainz.de/pub/xephem_3.2/catalogs/ . An other xe to xe2 conversion utility is at: http://www.simg.de/xetoxe2.e.html (HP) . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

When adding new file access programs, analysis routines, and scale programs, SAOtng will macro-expand your command line before executing it. ... SAOtng knows about several classes of macros: . ... The macro expands to make the raw (unscaled) FITS data representation of the image section available in a way suitable for use in a Unix pipe or redirected into a file. ... The $data macro will expand to an xpaget of the unscaled FITS image from memory, if such data is available. ... Region keywords . ...

... omichain (omichain-1.50) [xmmsas_20070708_1801-7.1.0] . ... Using the default parameter settings the omichain will process all the image files in the data directory. However, if only the images of particular exposures are required to be processed, or the images for particular filters, the parameters exposures and filters , respectively, can be used to achieve this. The following describes the way the ODF is processed in the default mode. ... Processing of the data for each filter . ...

Each Apache configuration directive is described using a common format that looks like this: . ... This indicates the format of the directive as it would appear in a configuration file. This syntax is extremely directive-specific, and is described in detail in the directive's definition. ... If the directive has a default value ( i.e. , if you omit it from your configuration entirely, the Apache Web server will behave as though you set it to a particular value), it is described here. ...

... xntpd is an operating system daemon which sets and maintains the system time-of-day in synchronism with Internet standard time servers. xntpd is a complete implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) version 3, as defined by RFC-1305, but also retains compatibility with version 1 and 2 servers as defined by RFC- 1059 and RFC-1119, respectively. xntpd does all computations in 64-bit fixed point arithmetic and requires no floating point support. ... Specify the name and path of the log file. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... It can be a good idea to periodically check for bad blocks. ... It outputs a list of the numbers of all bad blocks it can find. ... The following example will show how this could be done. $ badblocks /dev/fd0H1440 1440 > bad-blocks . fsck -t ext2 -l bad-blocks /dev/fd0H1440 . ... Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes . ... Pass 5: Checking group summary information. /dev/fd0H1440: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** . dev/fd0H1440: 11/360 files, 63/1440 blocks . ...

DIGITAL WDC EXCHANGE FORMAT . FOR OBSERVATORY 1.0 MINUTE VALUES 1. ... DATA-1 .. DATA-60 are 1-minute values of the given element for that hour. ... Typically, digital 1-minute values received by WDCs from organizations operating automatic magnetic observatory instruments are averages of more frequendy sampled values, e.g. 10-second point samples. ... If the method used to obtain 1-minute average values is important to a user, the WDC will assist in determining the exact procedure applied. ...

... support coversheet file _cs.html . ... PANL2 for nightlog information; asm (thru qcm) ; dataproducts..calib for pre-existing ANC files . ... twin ancillary fits files (LOGS and PLTS) . ... merge2Fits is a helper tool which prepares all input for creating product ancillary fits files. ... straightforward ingestion with existing tools: cdbIngest can handle any kind of product fits file . ... Ancillary fits files: content . The content of ancillary fits files is controlled by merge2Fits . ... LOGS . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... the International Space Station . The Russian Soyuz TMA-2 manned transport spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS). ... The joint International crew consisting of Russian cosmonauts N. Budarin, (ISS-6 flight engineer, test cosmonaut of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia), Yu. ... P. Semenov, Technical Director of Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences). ...

Instructions for using Menu-driven Axis Control Software . ... Altitude and azimuth axes use position feedback and the setting is in counts per second times 10. ... Use b to set the brakes and use c to clear the brakes for the corresponding axis, either azimuth or altitude. ... Use m to move to the previously specified position and velocity for the corresponding axis; either azimuth or altitude. ... Use g to move to the previously specified position and velocity for both the azimuth and altitude axis. ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

The following documentation pieces are provided with the Macro Assembler: Microsoft (R) Editor User's Guide Microsoft CodeView(R) and Utilities Update Macro Assembler Version 5.10 Update Macro Assembler Programmer's Guide Macro Assembler Reference Microsoft CodeView and Utilities manual Mixed-Language Programming Guide Executable files on the 5 disks are one of the following types: DOS Runs in real mode under DOS 2.1 or above OS/2 Runs in protected mode of OS/2 1.0 ...

... The MIDAS Data Organizer, a customizable utility to analyze and identify associations in a database of astronomical observations, is described. ... On-line Data Reduction: . ... The main characteristics of the on-line implementation of the DO at the ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT) are described below. The database for all operations is a MIDAS (ESO-IPG 1993) table, the so-called Observation Summary Table (OST) which contains all relevant parameters extracted from the FITS keywords. ...

... This appendix describes how to use the JavaScript console to evaluate expressions and display error messages to the user. ... Displaying Error Messages with the Console JavaScript 1.2 and earlier versions. ... You can specify whether to automatically open the console when a JavaScript error occurs or to display a dialog box for each JavaScript error. ... To open a dialog box each time an error occurs, add the following line to prefs.js : user_pref("javascript.classic.error_alerts", true); . ...

Next: Navigation Pre-Observation Products . ... SRT (Space Radio Telescope) Schedule (SRS) File . ... What: GOCG generates the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) schedule file, or SRS file, from current GSTS file. The SRS file has more precise time stamps than long-term schedules, and also designates which GTS will be used when. ... The SRS file also serves as the antenna pointing schedule file, as it describes the planned orientation of the spacecraft (and solar panels) as a function of time. ...

. To redirect the standard output from a command use the > (greater than) symbol followed by the name of the output file. If the file that you redirect standard output to does not already exist it will be created. For example: grep Smith /etc/passwd > popular . This redirects the standard output from the grep command so that it goes to the file popular . This file will contain all occurrences of the string Smith that were found in the /etc/passwd file. **Caution** . Did You Know? .