... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

COS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Cosmic Origins SpectrographInstrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 12: The COS Calibration Program > 12.6 Cycle 18 Calibration Program . ... Cycle 18 Calibration Program FUV Lifetime Position Calibration Program . ... The additional lifetime calibration program ?Second COS FUV Lifetime Position: Wavelength Scales (FCAL1)? uses observations from programs 12805, 12806, and 12796. ... Second COS FUV Lifetime Position: Focus Sweep Enabling Program (FENA3) . ...

... 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. ...

... MODE = PrimePartialW2 / Instrument configuration CALIBRATION_ MODE _1 = PrimePartialW2 / Mode used to calibrate events from CCD 1 CALIBRATION_ MODE _2 = PrimeFullWindow / Mode used to calibrate events from CCD 2 CALIBRATION_ MODE _3 = PrimeFullWindow / Mode used to calibrate events from CCD 3 CALIBRATION_ MODE _4 = PrimeFullWindow / ... The DATA_MODE_n parameters indicate the data mode (determined by the oal ) the n-th CCD was in during the exposure. ...

. The ALFA instrument monitor window is a big window showing all ALFA engineering parameters (with the exception of the ALFA motor). The 'Open motor control window' button opens the ALFA motor control window . You can return to the main CIMA page by clicking here .

... HealthCheck Monitor . ... Users Guide . ... plot information . ... The Health Check Monitor provides quick feedback on the performance of the VLT/VLTI instruments. ... The Health Check monitor is a component of the real-time QC system. ... It extracts QC information from the daily calibration data stream. ... The Health Check system . ... compares the new QC information to existing data (trending) . ... The Health Check system is designed to provide QC information in a fast and condensed form. ...

Next: Summary of reduction Up: Echelle Reduction Previous: Saving the Data . In the present version we will be concerned with the standard configuration of CASPEC, the Cassegrain Echelle Spectrograph which is in operation at the Cassegrain focus of the ESO 3.6 m telescope. ... In its standard configuration CASPEC uses a a 31.6 lines/mm echelle grating together with a 300 lines/mm grating cross disperser. ... The table shows the change in resolution with the order number. Table: Resolution . ...

The Ryle Telescope was used for some years for monitoring variable sources (in addition to its role in source-surveys related to the Sunyaev-Zeldovitch studies). The instrument is now transformed into the "AMI large array": see the AMI pages for details. ... The rebuild took place between 2006 June and mid-2008; between these dates there is no useful data available. ... For some sources there are many plots, organised by date: . ...

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... The damage to NIFS has freed up the RSAA instrumentation team to concentrate on the timely delivery of the Gemini South Adaptic Optics Imager (GSAOI). ... GSAOI is the second instrument that ANU is building for Gemini. ... GSAOI Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/gsaoi/ NIFS Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/nifs/ RSAA Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ Australian Gemini Project Office Website: http://www.ausgo.unsw.edu.au/ Gemini Public Information Website: http://www.gemini.anu.edu.au/public/ . ...

... 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. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

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This describes the exposure window used by each instrument (the graphical interface for the hub's expose command). ... To open the expose window for a given instrument, bring up that instrument's main window, then press the Expose... button along the bottom. ... The top panel shows the status of the current exposure sequence (regardless of who started it). ... File: the file name for the current exposure, or the most recent exposure if not exposing. ... Download: exposure download preferences. ...

AUTOMATIC STATION OF ECOLOGICAL CONTROL . ... STATE OF ASEC DEVELOPMENT . ... ASEC . ... Warranted life-time of balloons and calibration mixed gases, months . ... Telemetry system supplying information from each station to ecological center on technical state of gas analyzing equipment and instruments, emergency situations and unauthorized opening of the station. available . ... Calibration mixed gasses are stored inside the balloons as part of ASEC. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Meade 4M Community . ... Meade Instruments . ... 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. ... Coronado Accessories . ... LS 3.5" Color LCD Video Monitor . ... This full color monitor plugs directly into the built in camera on the Meade LS-6 and LS-8 LightSwitch telescopes. ...

... One of the instruments, the Troughton equatorial telescope, is maintained at constant temperature and relative humidity, to reduce the rate of deterioration. ... 3.1 Troughton Equatorial Telescope . Figure 1 shows the equatorial telescope constructed by J E Troughton of London and which was erected in the west dome of Armagh Observatory in 1795. ... Troughton, J. E.: c.1790, Instructions for Adjusting the Troughton Equatorial Telescope, Armagh Observatory Archives , M17.2, 3pp. ...

Presentations at the Astro-Statistics Seminar, Stat 310, taught by Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard). ... Aneta Siemiginowska, CfA . 21 Sep 2004 . Astronomy in the Age of Space: An Overview [.pdf] This is a broad overview of astronomy as an introduction to Astrostatistics. ... We concentrate on problems related to high energy astrophysics and consider the data obtained by modern X-ray space telescopes such as Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton. ... 05 Oct 2004 . ... 09 Nov 2004 . ... 22 Feb 2005 . ...