... A further spin off of this project is that more reliable pointing information for all exposures is provided. In 1995 the ST-ECF introduced, along with the CADC, the re-calibration on-the-fly (OTF) of archived HST exposures. ... By correlating the HST Mission Schedule and the time-tagged engineering telemetry data stream downloaded from HST it is possible to reconstruct with great accuracy the pointing sequence of any given scientific observation. ... taken within the same HST visit . ...

... There are five standard data formats for HSP data. ... The datasets contain a standard header packet , a unique data log , and one to four science data files (and corresponding data quality files). ... HSP Data Files . ... Science data, digital sky .d2h/.d2d . ... Each of the science data files has a corresponding quality file that contains single-precision floating point values. ... The HSP calibration program, calhsp , generates the calibrated file for each corresponding raw science data file. ...

... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... MeadeтАЩs new LX70 Series offers high-quality German equatorially mounted telescopes with slow-motion controls and heavy-duty steel tripods. ... For crisp wide-field observing and imaging, few optical designs match the performance of a true triple-element apochromatic refractor. ... Meade Standard Field Tripod #07020. ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

Optical and UV Spectrophotometric Standard Stars . ... Apache Point expresses its thanks to J. R. Walsh and to ESO for allowing us to place a copy of these pages at Apache Point. ... Access to the standards is either through: . ... The data for the standard stars come from four sources: . ... Data for 23 stars based on IUE and optical spectra and calibrated by the primary WD standards. ... The data from which the plots were produced are also available by ftp access from the standard star pages. ...

Largely automated science processing (working title: phoenix) Reinhard Hanuschik, 2012-05-10 Pre-conditions · · · all associations ( ABs ) already done, by standard QC workflow all associations point to certified and archived master calibrations (the ones to virtual calibrations can't be processed so they need to be filtered) we use only selected ... Issues: · which products do we select for ingestion? ... VM, standard vs. non-standard setups no processing: o o ECHELLE, SLICER (why not?) ...

XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­120 OM Photometry Bing Chen July 5, 2002 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag OM COLORTRANS 0007 2000­01­01T00:00:00 COLORMAG No 2 Changes The zero­points and color­transformations for optical filters are set based on observations of several hundreds standard stars. ... We can see that the simulated UV color­transformation based on this new CCF can represent the observations. ...

Next: Reduction procedure Up: Extinction and transformation Previous: Strategy . Standard stars can be included in the extinction solution, if one is careful. The problem is that there are usually appreciable ``conformity errors'' due to mismatch between the instrumental and the standard passbands [ 16 ]. ... Thus, it is wrong to assume that the transformation between the instrumental system and the standard system is exact, even if there were no measurement error in either system [ 1 ]. ...

... This routine is designed to read in the current correlator set-up, go to the chosen source, and then take data pointing directly at the source. This routine will automatically wait until you are on source before beginning to take data. ... Additionally, this routine allows you to take an ON/OFF calibration pair (one 10s scan with the noise diode on, followed by a 10s scan with the diode off), using the chosen noise diode configuration (see Section 1.6 ). ...

... There are compelling reasons for the pulsar community to utilise a standard data storage format. For example, standardisation of file formats significantly decreases the amount of effort required to integrate new instruments into the analysis chain. ... Accordingly, we have defined PSRFITS as a standard FITS-based format for pulsar data files. ... For example, the first line of Processing History HDU contains information about the data acquisition program and the initial structure of the file. ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

Next: *imcalc* - Obtain a Up: Calibration Previous: Exposure Map . Background maps are provided by the standard processing for all ROSAT and Einstein instruments. For the PSPC and IPC these are in three standard bands: soft, hard, and broad (Table 6.2). ... N.B.: ROSAT PSPC background maps in SASS 5-6 or higher are generated by smoothing a source-subtracted, exposure corrected image (see the ROSAT Data Products Guide). ... imcalc* - Obtain a background subtracted image for ROSAT PSPC Data . ...

... The INTEGRAL Science Data Centre Roland Walter, Alain Aubord, Paul Bartholdi, Jurek Borkowski, Pierre Bratschi, Tomaso Contessi, Thierry Courvoisier, Davide Cremonesi, Pierre Dubath, Donnald Jennings, Peter Kretschmar, Tim Lock, St’ephane Paltani, Reiner Rohlfs and Julian Sternberg 1 INTEGRAL Science Data Centre, Chemin d' ’ Ecogia 16, CH--1290 Versoix, Switzerland Abstract. INTEGRAL is a gamma­ray observatory mission of the Eu­ ropean Space Agency to be launched in 2001. ...

... 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. ...

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 . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.4 > Miscellaneous Documentation . ... This page documents all the relevant standards that the Apache HTTP Server follows, along with brief descriptions. ... http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.php - RFC Errata . ... This document summarizes the history of HTML development, and defines the "text/html" MIME type by pointing to the relevant W3C recommendations. ... HTML documents are SGML documents. ...

... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

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... The Theoretcial Astrophysics subroutine library provides constants and functions commonly used in astrophysical modelling. It began in 1992 as a joint project between CCP7 and Starlink, initiated by Simon Jeffery and Paul Rees. ... SUBROUTINE TAP_ESYMB ( IZ, SYMBOL, STATUS ) . ... SUBROUTINE TAP_ENAME ( IZ, NAME, STATUS ) . ... SUBROUTINE TAP_ABINI ( TAP_ABUND, STATUS ) . ... SUBROUTINE TAP_ERROR ( TAP_ROUTN, NAME, TEXT, STATUS ) . ... SUBROUTINE TAP_ERREP ( TAP_ROUTN, STATUS ) . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Optical Interferometry . OIFITS: A Data Exchange Standard for Optical (Visible/IR) Interferometry . ... OIFITS is a standard for exchanging calibrated, time-averaged data from astronomical optical interferometers , based on the FITS Standard (OIFITS is a registered FITS convention ). ... The OIFITS standard is used in the biennial optical interferometry Imaging Beauty Contests: . ... A data exchange standard for optical (visible/IR) interferometry. ...