... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

The On-The-Fly Calibration (OTFC) system, publicly released in Dec. 1999, calibrated data at the time a user requested data from the archive. ... The On-The-Fly Reprocessing (OTFR) system replaced OTFC on May 16, 2001. ... UCHCOORD and OTFR. ... To address this issue, a new header keyword, PROCTIME, has been added to OTFR data to record when the system processed the data. ... OTFC . OTFR . ... POD file (original telemetry file) is retrieved from HST archive and passed to OTFR system. ...

asncombine -- Process and combine images in one or two NICMOS associations asncombine association . ... set to yes to include error planes in co-added images error. background . ... This is useful to use different background subtractions for different images. fheader . set to yes in order to multiply the background by the value of keyword "factor" in the image header. ... Set to yes to use quadrants statistics save in the image header from previous runs of asncombine. regquad1 . ...

... In some cases where memory space is at a premium, it is possible to tailor the configuration to remove such features as reference clock driver support, debugging support, and so forth. ... The following lines are used in this file: . ... The DEFS_LOCAL line defines global flags that apply to all machines. Ordinarily, the only flags included are the -DDEBUG , which includes the debugging code, and -DREFCLOCK , which includes basic reference clock support. ... D_INCLUDE_BSD_SOURCE . ...

. Code from other SHELTRAN sources can be included by putting an I in column 1 followed by the name of the source to be included. The code included in this way will also be processed by the SHELTRAN compiler.

Next: Generating Calibration Reference Files with an OPUS Pipeline . Up: Data Pipelines and Quality Control . ... Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218 . ... The OPUS pipeline data processing software, developed at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), handles this demanding level of throughput by providing a distributed, concurrent pipeline processing environment for the set of applications that transform the raw telescope telemetry into archival products. ...

... OM grism data are obtained as image mode data. However the different nature of this type of data, spectra of the objects in the field of view instead of their "sky" image, makes that a special processing must be applied to the grism images. ... They are concatenated in a perl script, omgchain , which works in a similar way to the image and fast mode chains. ... All necessary corrections are applied to the grism data files. ... As we have pointed out OM grism data are image mode data. ...

Next: Running REDUCE/CCD Up: Processing the Data Previous: Processing the Data . Before any processing on the input frame is done, the REDUCE/CCD command will first collect all resources needed for the calibration of the science frame(s). These include the master calibration frames, the overscan offset, and scaling parameters. So, at this point no operations are done yet. ... As an example, suppose the science frame is supposed to be corrected for dark current and to be flat fielded. ...

... These composites, unlike the one above, have had the continuum divided out from the individual spectra before co-addition. ... Unlike the combined composite, the individual spectra have not been inverse variance weighted. ... Standard deviation of the individual QSO fluxes going into that bin. Number of individual QSO spectra contributing to that bin. Average redshift of QSOs contributing to that bin. Lowest redshift contributing . Highest redshift contributing . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... Non-linear dynamics of optical and spin waves in magnetically ordered layers and layered structures. ... Magneto-optics: interaction of propagating light and spin waves in ferromagnetic films and layered structures (including non-linear waves). ... The technology of these components utilises recent physical achievements in the fields of spinwave and vibration processes in solid state layered structures. ... Telecommunications. ... Physics Department, Joule Laboratory, Salford University, UK . ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Wiki Style Examples . Wiki styles | ... PmWiki uses WikiStyles for styling text with color and other attributes. PmWiki 2.0 introduced the ability to control the styling further and to even place styles on blocks. ... In addition, an author can define a style "shortcut" by using the define= property. For example, to define a style of %red% , one can use: . define=mystyle color=red% Here is some %mystyle% red text created using a style shortcut. ...

... 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. ...

Next: ST-6 Data Collection Up: Data Acquisition Previous: Data Acquisition with . ... The tracking software is extremely important to data collection, and will be presented here. The tracking software is run from the CPU box. ... The exposure adjust will set the exposure time. ... After the drive is calibrated, the track button will set the ST-4 in a mode where it will track the star until it either loses track or the operator stops the track. ...

The Face on Mars . ... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . Table 2: Dimensions of Mercator Projected Images of "The Face on Mars" . Map Projected Images . ... Processing the "Face on Mars" Images . ... This page will provide interested persons with both the raw Viking images, transformed to GIF format, and a brief tutorial (with examples) of image processing techniques applied to create "better looking" images. ...

... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . ... In July, 1976, Viking Orbiter 1 was acquiring images of the Cydonia region of Mars as part of the search for potential landing sites for Viking Lander 2. ... Using the height field, it is also possible to view the "Face" from different look directions, by mapping the Viking Orbiter image directly on the the topography and then placing the "viewer" at different locations. ... Mars . ...

... Now primarily for Apogee cameras, XmCCD was developed initially for SBIG cameras and legacy support for them is still included in this version. SBIG ==== SBIG has provided the library used here. It is the latest one they offer and the files included allow support for Android and Mac OS X. This distribution of XmCCD includes source code to utilize the SBIG shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface. ... The open source code for this library is included here. ...

... astro-ph . ... Statistical Characterization of the Chandra Source Catalog . ... The first release of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) contains ~95,000 X-ray sources in a total area of ~0.75% of the entire sky, using data from ~3,900 separate ACIS observations of a multitude of different types of X-ray sources. ... In addition to these traditional catalog elements, for each X-ray source the CSC includes an extensive set of file-based data products that can be manipulated interactively. ...

Next: Survey Simulations Up: Minutes of the 1st Previous: RFI at Arecibo . GALFA is really a consortium of 3 separate sub-consortia centered around different science topics: Galactic HI, Continuum and Recombination lines. ... Continuum survey . ... Recombination lines . 12 H lines are found in the ALFA band, from n=163 to 174. ... At the same time, you could make an L-band map of SNR in OTF mode, basketweaving scans in RA and in Dec (the HI map would require more time than the continuum data). ...

Nalini Chandra & John Percy, University of Toronto . ... Some works to refer to when using multicultural astronomy in your classroom: . ... Nalini Chandra is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto in the Department of Curriculum Teaching and Learning at OISE/UT. ... OISE-University of Toronto . ... John Percy, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Toronto, is a Past President of the ASP, and is active in astronomy education at all levels. ... ASP Multicultural Astronomy Resources . ...