Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...

WFC3 Instrument Science Report 2009-12 WFC3 Example Datasets H. Bushouse and C. Pavlovsky July 29, 2009 ABS TRACT Flight-like example datasets for the WFC3 UVIS and IR channels have been constructed and are publicly available for observers to use for learning and testing WFC3 data processing and analysis software. ... Details of the WFC3 file formats and contents, as well as the calibration processing performed by the calwf3 program, can be found in the WFC3 Data Handbook (Kim Quijano et al. ...

... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract MOS spectra of a point-like source observed in Imaging mode and to create associated response matrices, starting from a calibrated, concatenated event list (either produced with emproc or available as PPS product; here it has the assumed file name MOS.fits ). ... The users should note that the SAS metatask xmmselect allows them to interactively define source and background regions (via ds9) and to run backscale on the fly. ...

Next: The STScI NICMOS Calibration Up: No Title Previous: CONICA: The high resolution . The STScI NICMOS Calibration Pipeline . Introduction . ... Dark Current Subtraction . ... Input Data . ... Scalar Background Subtraction . 2-D Background Subtraction . ... Status and Goals of the NICMOS Calibration Plan . ... Photometry . ... Photometric Performance of NICMOS . ... NICMOS Photometry. ... ST-ECF Grism Spectrum Software for NICMOS Grism Data . ... Analysis . ... STScI NICMOS Software . ...

... OOF software . ... Memos . ... Raw data . ... We present a Bayesian approach to calculating the coefficients that convert the outputs of ALMA 183 GHz water-vapour radiometers into estimates of path fluctuations that can be used to correct the observed interferometric visibilities. ... Please note that the files"COPYING" in each of the distribution packages have GPL listed but it is in fact LGPL which applies. ... This is the raw data from the SMA used in the analysis shown in Section 4 of the memo. ...

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) . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > New Version of Scisoft Software Collection Available . ... Scisoft is a project within ESO to provide a collection of astronomical software utilities in a uniform way at all ESO sites, and to make them available to the worldwide community. ... We are pleased to announce that a new version, Scisoft 8, built for 64-bit Fedora 20 Linux, is now available and can be downloaded from the Scisoft project page . ...

... XPA and the now-defunct funtools have moved to GitHub! Please visit: . xpa @ https://github.com/ericmandel/xpa . funtools (not supported but ...) @ https://github.com/ericmandel/funtools for the latest version. Also available on GitHub: . ... The public release xpa version 2.1.15 is available here . Please upgrade at your convenience. ... Its available here . ... Software to benefit the astronomical community and especially the X-ray astronomy community. ... saord@cfa.harvard.edu . ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Facilities . ... The challenges associated with the large amount of data that will be produced by ASKAP means the team has had to consider how to build a data archive system that will be able to manage as well as store this data . вАЬCASDA currently archives some data products produced from the BETA вАШdemonstration projectsвАЩ that have already produced some exciting, and published, initial science ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... Max . Min . ... Data . ... max . ... 15.5 . ... min . Comm. 3 . ... MinII 15.6. ... NSVS 8710529. NSVS data confirms variability. ... NSVS 8710609. ... For V1219 Cyg (type IN, Hoffmeister, 1967) and NSVS 2122045+355634 (type L, Wozniak et al., 2004), our data is fully consistent with the existing classification, so we drop them from further consideration. ... Wozniak, P.R., Williams, S.J., Vestrand, W.T., Gupta, V., 2004, Astronomical Journal, 128, 2965 . ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

Results of analysis . ... IAA EOP Service . ... EOP series are regularly submitted to the IERS, and also are available at the IAA EOP Service page. EPN coordinate time series . EUREF Permanent GPS Network (EPN) coordinate time series is computed from analysis of available EUREF weekly solutions. ... Second solution is based on independent combination of individual EPN Analysis Centers' solutions . ... USNO GPS Timing Operations . ... GPS Time Series . ... EPN : European Permanent GPS Network . ...

USING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ISGRI SURVEY RESULTS AND OTHER CATALOGUES TO AID SOURCE IDENTIFICATION John B. Stephen, A. Malizia and L. Bassani IASF-INAF, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, ITALY, E-mail: stephen@iasfbo.inaf.it ABSTRACT In order to help in the identification of INTEGRAL/ISGRI sources, we have developed a software package which allows a rapid and detailed cross-correlation to be performed between various source catalogues. ... We show below some preliminary results from this analysis. ...

Next: AO data and AIPS++ Up: Spectral-Line Observing at AO Previous: Useful Stuff . There are currently a number of ways you can convert Arecibo data into other data formats, and a variety of support levels for different data analysis programs. As a result it is feasible to reduce your Arecibo data with a wide range of data reduction software. ... In the following two section we describe spectral line data analysis in two of the available data reduction packages - Analyz and AIPS++. ...

Software Forum Message . Forums: . ... Astronomy Software Discussion | ... NIGHTCAL – New Version 0.7.2 Available To Download . ... The new version of NightCal Astronomical Observing Software (version 0.7.2) has been released today (6th January 2006). ... If you like NightCal software, please feel free to rate it and post comments about NightCal at http://www.astrotips.com/Downloads-index-req-viewdownloaddetails-lid-673-ttitle-NightCal.phtml. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

... If some entries are missing, which might turn out later, add them in a way that the library remains downward compatible. (13aug97) XAW3D 3D widget library 1.3 . ... ASCII Art library 1.2 (by Hung-Chi Chu , aa.dll for XFree86, aa.dll.noX for non-X environments) . ... MPEG library 1.2.1 (by Hung-Chi Chu , DLL only ) . PNG library 1.0.2 (by Hung-Chi Chu , requires zlib , DLL only ) . TIFF library 3.4beta037 (by Hung-Chi Chu , requires zlib and jpeg , DLL only ) . ... Xpm 3.4k (by Hung-Chi Chu ) . ...

Next: Preparing Your Calibration Up: CCD Reductions Previous: The Association Table . The software available in the CCD package takes care of the relative calibrations of the pixel intensities, of averaging, and of cleaning frames. ... A full reduction of CCD data involves the steps outlined below: . ... combine the bias, dark, and flat calibration frames (if taken); . ... The CCD package system provides a single command for doing the entire calibration of the CCD frames: REDUCE/CCD . ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

home education > resources . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Again, we note that only projects or educational organizations are listed, not simply commercial producers of video. ... Ken Brecher at Boston University is also a leader of this project, but contact the Education Dept. at the Center for Astrophysics; address on last page.) http://mo-www.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory . ... NASA Imagine the Universe Project (formerly the High Energy Astrophysics Learning Center): . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...