The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

... All the parameters provided in this database have been obtained using the the MIRIAD ( Sault et al. 1995 ) task MBSPECT . MBSPECT makes a spectrum of the velocity (or frequency) axis of a cube. The spectrum is beam-weighted, over the width specified, for the other image axes. ... Robust parameters are calculated by using an algorithm which minimises the mean absolute deviation of the flux-weighted velocities. mask= This specifies the x-axis ranges to be excluded from any continuum fit. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Available Actions . Default actions . ... Cookbook actions . Page actions are applied to wiki pages, as a query string appended to the URL . ... displays dialog for setting/changing password of the specified page or group of pages, see passwords , see also $EnablePostAttrClearSession if you do not want to have the session cleared after validating change General use of passwords . ... display the specified page (default action if no ?action= is present) . ...

polimodel -- Produce model linear polarization and position angle images . ... Whether to apply random errors to output polarization and position angle values. seed = "" [integer] . ... This task produces a model linear polarization image and corresponding position angle image from an input image assumed to represent intensity (Stokes I parameter). ... A threshold for the input image can be defined such that polarization and position angle are not computed for input values less than this threshold. ...

... Inst Data Fit allows one to determine various parameters needed for instrument data files, including: scale, orientation and the position of the rotator with respect to the instrument. ... Run Inst Data Fit. ... Specify all fields above the "Fit Scale and Orientation" button New Rot_Inst_ang . ... Modified the instructions so that new scale and orientation values are applied to the instrument block before measuring center-of-rotation data (to solve a problem brought to light by SPICam). ... R.O. ...

... In spite of the good potential possibilities, some of the station "Dnepr" design characteristics did not allow us to apply the usual special IS radar measurement methods. ... Thus for IS signal measurements at the "Dnepr" station, we have developed special methods for recording and processing IS signals in order to determine plasma ionospheric parameters. ... Equations (4-5) from the basis for data post processing to obtain ionosphere parameters. ...

Next: Data Analysis Applications . ... The past decade has witnessed a movement within the astronomical software community towards Open Systems . ... We present examples of user-customizable systems that can be built from existing tools, based on commonly-used infrastructure: a parameter interface library, FITS file format, Unix, and the X Windows environment. ... However, the currently available parameter file systems have serious limitations when inserted into a heterogeneous environment. ...