Next: New Users Up: Introduction Previous: Introduction . This document is intended to be a description of how to use the various facilities available in the MIDAS system. The manual consists of three volumes: . ... describes how to use the MIDAS system for astronomical data reduction. ... A printed version of the MIDAS help files is available in Volume C. Users are recommended to use the on-line help facility which always gives a full up to date description of the commands available. ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Description . ... This can be set by the user via the parameter device . The default value of device is /XS (Xserver), but alternative outputs (depending on what drivers have been installed with PGPLOT) can be used, for example /XW for x-windows, /GIF, /JPEG, /PS for Postscript, and /CPS for Colour Postscript. ... Either a colour-coded image or a contour map image can be produced, depending on the value of imagestyle . ... Note that 0 is not a valid colour map index. ...

SAI 175 anniversary . ... Moscow University . Search for in SAI Moscow University Search for in Russian astronomical resources . ... SAI Astronomical Databases . ... Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) . ASTRONET.RU - Russian Astronomical Network (available in translit also) . ... SAI Supernovae Research Group . ... Department of the Galaxy and Variable Stars (in Russian) . Sternberg Astronomical Institute Seminars . ... All-Russian Astronomical Olympiad (in Russian) . ...

... Next: FITS Checksum Verification Up: Data Models and Previous: A Proposed Convention . ... The FITSIO Subroutine Library has been available for 3 years, and has matured into a stable, full-featured interface for reading and writing FITS format files. ... The FITSIO subroutine library for reading and writing FITS files is now three years old and is used by many projects as the standard programming interface for accessing FITS format data files. ...

Both IRAF and STSDAS are provided free of charge to the astronomical community. ... A complete description of how to install the synphot data files is provided in section A.3.2 . ... You should retrieve the README file from the directory /software/ stsdas/v2.0 and read it to find out which files you should retrieve. ... To do this, you need to retrieve a series of compressed tar files from the STScI FTP site (ftp.stsci.edu) in the directory software/stsdas/refdata/synphot . ... usr/iraf/stdata . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . ... It describes how you can use mod_rewrite to control access to various resources, and other related techniques. ... This technique relies on the value of the HTTP_REFERER variable, which is optional. ... RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !www.example.com [NC] RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png)$ - [F,NC] . ... RewriteCond ${deflector:%{HTTP_REFERER}} =- RewriteRule ^ %{HTTP_REFERER} [R,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} != ...

... SFIT is a general-purpose code designed to optimize theoretical stellar spectra to an observed spectrum. ... While the programme expects input from "stdio", it is more natural to save commands in a file (eg "sfit_input") and run the code simply by . ... If the spectra to be fitted have a filename "star_spectrum", then the best fit spectrum will be written out, together with the renormalized input spectrum, to a file called "star_spectrum.fit". ... sets up model spectrum grid (and for 2nd star) . ...

... Classes . ... This class gives Proxy to Fitting connection. ... Generic base class for least-squares fit. ... Internal Fitting_module classes and functions. ... The Fitting module holds various classes and functions related to fitting models to data. ... The above fitting problems can usually be solved by directly calling the fit() member function provided by one of the Fit classes above, or by gradually building the normal equation matrix and solving the normal equations ( solve() ). ...

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. ...

Next: List of PROS and Up: PROS USERS GUIDE Previous: Glossary . ... Available from SAO. ... The IRAF Data Reduction and Analysis System. ... File Structure and Formats of Processed Einstein Data [G. Fabbiano and J. McSweeney] - Details of the structure of the Einstein data files. ... User Manual for SAOimage [M. VanHilst] - Available from SAO. *documents so indicated are also available as compressed postscript files in subdir /pub/pros/docs of SAO anonftp. ftp sao-ftp.harvard.edu . ...