... HST Phase II Proposal Instructions for Cycle 20 > Chapter 12: Cosmic OriginsSpectrograph (COS) > ACQUISITION MODES > 12.4 Mode = ACQ/PEAKDConfig = COS/FUV . 12.4 Mode = ACQ/PEAKD . Config = COS/FUV . ACQ/PEAKD Mode invokes a procedure in the COS onboard flight software that takes a series of exposures at different HST pointings offset in the dispersion direction, and HST is repositioned to maximize (peak up) the light intensity through the COS aperture. ... 12.4.1 Aperture or FOV . ...

Displays the current status of NICFPS spectrograph and allows you to change the configuration. ... Once the instrument builders have more time with the instrument we plan to refine the controls. ... Select TUI:Save Window Positions to remember the state of this checkbutton. ... The contextual menu on each control can return that control to the current setting of the instrument. ... the current set of filters. ... Current : reset all configuration widgets to the current state of the instrument. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Circular polarization of the bright side of Iapetus versus wavelength, obtained with FORS2 at the ESO VLT during the night 2011-03-28 at a phase angle of 0.77 . ... It can be noted that a change in signal occurs in circular polarization observations that are taken after rotating the instrument by 90 degree with respect to the intial position angle on the sky. ...

... read parameters; ################# start format upgrade section. if (filemode eq 'modify') { # convert old-style source list if necessary: if (! instrument_supplied) { if (hasAttribute( set , 'INSTRUME')) { instrument = stringAttribute(oldListSet, 'INSTRUME'); } else { # attempt to get it from file name: if (! instrument_in_filename) { call error;} } } call CAL_setState(instrument=instrumentId); rename table to 'SRCLIST'; get ...

... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

Program: RADPROF Purpose: Solves the radial surface density distribution from a strip integral of the brightness distribution. ... Algorithm: 1. read in the observational data of observation 1 from the data file for both the east and west side 2. convert the positions on the resolution (= position ) axis to radial distances in the plane of the galaxy 3. make an inital guess of the radial distribution 4. start lucy iterative scheme to compute the true radial ...

... An OBJECT column gives the name of the object observed (usually a star name). ... In critical cases, it is common practice to measure sky on two or more positions around a target object, and these positions must be identified. ... A general treatment of this problem requires a column called OBJECT, bearing the usual name of the object (as in the star tables); a column labelled STARSKY, to distinguish between star+sky, star alone, or sky alone; and additional columns to identify the sky position. ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... Bright MASTER OT105123.02+672528.3 discovery at Optical/X-ray/radio source position ATel3845, ATel3849 ATel3889 . ... All news ...

... The SIRTF Science Center is developing two Web-based tools that will be used during operations. One tool is for Quality Analysis. ... The basic design requirements for the QA tool are (1) that it provide an easy way of looking at all the data, observation by observation, and (2) that it provide an easy way to specify status and comments for each observation. ... The data accessed by this tool consists of meta-data in the central database as well as the actual data files in the archive. ...

Next: The Transmission Gratings Up: The Instruments Previous: The Instruments . ... A conventional cross-grid charge detector reads out the photo-induced charge cloud and the electronics determine an arrival time to 16s, and the position with a resolution of about 18 m or 0.37 arcsec. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Space Research, in collaboration with Lincoln Laboratories, developed the detector system and manufactured the CCDs; Lockheed-Martin integrated the instrument. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... 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. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

... On the coude focus of 1-m (Zeiss-1000) telescope have installed two echelle spectrometers: CEGS and HELEN. Both spectrometers have been designed by Musaev F.A. and oriented for spectroscopy of relatively bright stars with different spectral resolution. ... spectral resolution R~40000, range 3200 - 10100 Angstroms - registered simultaneously with 1242x1152 CCD (see example of CCD image of Solar spectrum, obtained with 1252x1152 CCD - about 100 spectral orders are seen (151Kb jpeg file ). ...

Next: *.imh and *.qp Extensions Up: IRAF/PROS Files Previous: IRAF Image Arrays . The x-ray data are stored in QPOE files (Quick Position-Ordered Events, *.qp ) rather than image arrays. ... Note that, unlike IRAF images, QPOE files have no associated header file, and are always stored in the current directory, unless explicitly specified otherwise. Non-PROS IRAF tasks can also access QPOE data files in place of image arrays. ... rp110590.qp[pi=2:30] . ... The ROSAT PSPC qp file images are . ...

With the Phase I CGPS now complete at 21cm, we are in a position to examine the population of cold H I clouds over the entire range of the survey. Current methods of H I self-absorption (HISA) identification and analysis allow us to explore the properties and distribution of the portion of cold H I which appears as HISA shadows in the 21cm line data. Such studies are necessarily biased toward clouds with bright background emission. ...

This WWW form allows the user simplified access to images produced by the NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). This service determines which NVSS image is desired based on a celestial position and returns either the image directly or a Web page with a link to the file. ... The NVSS Postage stamp (small FITS file) server can be used to obtain images with other geometries.) ... Web browsers use external viewers to display files like FITS images which they do not understand. ...

... Telescopes . ... 2013: . A new control system for the 1-m telescope with remote control possibility for the observation process . In 2013, the creation of a control system for the multitask 1-m ZEISS-1000 telescope was completed in SAO RAS, allowing the use of the telescope's observational capabilities in the modes of local and remote control. ... FITS 3.0-compatible archive of direct images with astrometric calibration . ... SAO RAS Report N329, 2013. Archive . ...

... Slitless is configured to work primarily with the STIS G750L grism mode, but more modes can be defined by the user using a simple grism dispersion configuration file. 5. stecf.impol ­ an IRAF Imaging Polarimetry Reduction Package The impol package consists of five tasks to reduce, simulate and plot imaging linear polarimetry data taken with the HST instruments with polarizing facilities - currently FOC, NICMOS and WFPC2. ... Linear polarization and position angle images are required. ...

The Wind spacecraft. ... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... For additional details and updates, see the home page of the "Wind" mission. Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . ...

... This will allow the telescope to be run at low cost after MACHO observations conclude at the end of 1999. ... In collaboration with the Anglo-Australian Observatory, the University of Melbourne and Auspace, the RSAA is developing an instrument known as the Wide Field Imager (WFI). ... During the report year the fabrication of the WFI dewar in the RSAA workshop was completed. ... Annual Report 1998 . ... In January 1998 two Stromlo staff travelled to the South Pole, Brett McLinden and Ralph...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...