The Agile window provides complete control over the Agile high-speed photometer. ... All other parameters are specified as part of the command that starts an exposure sequence. ... To connect the filter wheel controller, issue this command in the command bar at the bottom of the Log window: agile connDev fw . ... To home the filter wheel controller, issue this command in the command bar at the bottom of the Log window: agile fwhome (there must be a filter wheel mounted in Agile for homing to succeed). ...

NCS J.10.4.4.5.1 INSTRUMENT OR SUBSYSTEM : NCS C. Cottingham September 30, 2002 REQUIREMENT : J.10.4.4.5.1 "Configure the NCS to recool NICMOS detectors. The goal during SMOV is to verify the capability to maintain the NICMOS Cooling Coil temperature less than or equal to 69 +/- 0.1K." RELEVANT SMOV PROPOSAL: N/A DESCRIPTION OF METHODS: On day 2002:078 the NCC was started and on day 2002:101 the NCC reached its weighted Neon setpoint of 70K and began to control. ...

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. ...

The drawing presented in Figure 6 suggests a cryo-mechanical design based on a cylindrical vacuum shell, with total size dictated by total length of the optical system and wheels diameter. ... internal support structure for cold optics and detector; . cold optics, focal masks and filter wheels; . ... The detector, in thermal contact with the cold plate, will have an active temperature control, with an RDT sensor and a heater, both connected to an independent temperature controller. ...

... The quality control system calibrates the VLT instruments and monitors the quality of data. ... The calibration plan defines the observation, calibration procedures and data needed to achieve the specified quality level defined by Instrument Scientist. ... A concept inherent to quality control is the distributed system: it allows several on-line users to simultaneously do some analytical processing of distributed data. ... Documentation (version 1.0) . ... Library version 1.0 (9/12/96) . ...

... 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. ...

Rectangular Format Cameras Princeton Instruments rectangular format cameras are ideal for many specialized imaging applications, including full color imaging, one dimensional imaging, or any application requiring high resolution along only one dimension. ... Multispectral and Color Imaging To capture images at multiple wavelengths simultaneously, one can either use multiple cameras, a single camera with multiple CCD arrays, or a single camera with a rectangular array. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... 505 Connector Cable Set . Operating Instructions for use with the Meade? Autostar? ... The #505 Connector Cable Set provides access to three Autostar operations: . ... 2: #505 Connector Cable Set connects between two Autostar handboxes. (1) 3-foot cable. ... If you have a question concerning use of the #505 Connector Cable Set, call the Meade Instruments Customer Service Department at (949) 451-1450, or fax at (949) 451-1460. ... Autostar Downloads . ...

... 400mm f/2.8 Nikor lens: images the sky on the entrance slit. ... The optical system maintains image quality along the slit length so that each row of the image is a spectrum of that spatially selected region of the sky. 180mm f/2.8 Nikor lens: collimates the light from the slit. ... The auxiliary optical platform on WISPI now accomodates a short focal lens and a guiding/imaging video system that may use sub-pixel corrections to provide feedback to the tracking drive motors. ...

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

NIFS is designed to be a fast-tracked, low-cost, near-infrared, integral-field spectrograph for use on Gemini North with the facility adaptive optics system, ALTAIR . ... By adopting a largely fixed-format design: A 3.0" 3.0" "stair-case" integral field unit (IFU) will feed a near-infrared spectrograph with five fixed-angle gratings mounted on a single grating wheel. ... The 29 field mirrors direct the beams into the spectrograph so that their pupils all coincide on the grating at bottom-left. ...

... The task clearly needs to know the direction in space of the focal axis of the relevant instrument at the time of the observation of interest. ... In esky2det I have chosen to break the necessary information up into 3 pieces: the name of the instrument, the date-time of the observation and the spacecraft pointing direction (attitude) at this time. ... calinfostyle = `srcset': the information is sought from INSTRUME and DATE-OBS keywords in the header of the source list specified by inset . ...

... BOM2 and the basic block of solar limbograph including pointing and control systems ? ... Fine tracking platform (FTP) for Sun tracking by the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... Tracking system frequency ? ... Controller of the control system and solar fine tracking of the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... The basic relative construction of the elements and instrumental blocks of the "Astrometria" space experiment is shown on the block diagram of units within the complex of SL-200 solar...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... Five new devices of the total mass of ~42 kg (instead of 6 devices of the total mass of ~101 kg) are installed in the guidance, navigation and control system of the new series vehicle. ... liquid thermostatting of GN OC devices is provided by installation of three cold plates in the vehicle instrument module (IM); . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

Next: Phenology Garden Up: Buildings, Grounds, Library and Previous: Buildings, Telescopes and Telescope Contents . Strong support for the provision of a new Library, Archives and Historic Scientific Instruments Building was expressed by the Board of Governors at their annual meeting in March 2004. ... During 2004 the project was advanced largely by John Butler, who prepared a detailed application for external funding to support the proposal, which is intended to be submitted to the HLF in 2005. ...

The LIDAR Instrument Information . The LIDAR was designed in a bistatic scheme with a separate transmitter and two receiver channels. ... The total mass of the instrument is only 940 grams (about 2 pounds) and a total volume is 950 cubic centimeters in both assemblies. ... Engineers designed the LIDAR to operate in the temperature range from -100 to 50 degrees Celsius (-148 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit) under lower pressure, near one millibar. ... One of the receiver channels has polarizer. ...

. 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 .

Magnetic field measurements onboard the Interball Tail spacecraft are carried out by the FM-3I instrument which consists of two flux-gate magnetometers covering two different ranges: [-200, +200] nT and [-1000, +1000] nT. Besides scientific goals, the FM-3I experiment data is used to perform the attitude control of the Interball Tail spacecraft. ... August 22, 1995 . ... October 18, 1995 . Top of the page . ... Back to the Interball Home Page . ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Roof Status . ... If you select Winer to provide the site and maintenance for your remotely-operated telescope, your telescope will be housed in the modern roll-off roof observatory seen at left. ... The building computer and most customer telescope control computers are programmed to keep logs to assist in diagnosing problems in moving the roof or telescopes, or in controlling the instruments. ...