STScI . ... Phase I Proposing . ... Astronomer's Proposal Tool . ... STScI solicits proposals for HST Observing, Archival Theoretical Research. ... HST Cycle 24 Phase II Proposal Deadline . The Call for Proposals (CP) invites the astronomical community to propose for observing time on HST in a given cycle (nominally one year in duration). It summarizes the policies and procedures for proposing in that cycle of HST observing, including requests for funding research on archival HST data. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > Instrumentation Development . ... Science Users Information . ... La Silla Paranal Observatory . ... Paranal Instrumentation . Decommissioned Instruments . ... VLT/VLTI Science Verification . ... ESO exercises strict control over the interfaces between the VLT observatory and its instruments. ... The instruments below are now maintained (and documented on the ESO web) by the Directorate of Operations/La Silla Paranal Observatory: . ...

... Timothy L. Kopra (Colonel, U. S. Army, Ret.) NASA Astronaut . ... In this position, he primarily served as an engineering liaison for space shuttle launch operations and International Space Station hardware testing. ... He then served in the Space Station Branch of the Astronaut Office, where he was involved in the testing of crew interfaces for two space station pressurized modules as well as the implementation of support computers and operational Local Area Network on the station. ...

... NICS will be the only infrared instrument for the first light of the TNG; as a consequence, we decided to incorporate a sufficient degree of operation flexibility by providing the instrument with six different observing modes, three aimed at imaging and three at spectroscopy: . ... It will be possible to use the narrow band filters as order sorters; this will allow to perform high resolution long-slit spectroscopy in the wavelength ranges covered by the available narrow band filters. ...

... Observing time is granted on the basis of scientific merit and broader impacts of the proposed project. Potential users of the telescope should submit a proposal describing their desired observations, the scientific justification, and the broader impact for these. ... Observers having scientific objectives that can be accomplished in 3 hours or less of telescope time are invited to submit a short proposal, which may be submitted at any time (proposal deadline restrictions do not apply). ...

... The software systems are described following the forward and backward data flow to/from the satellite: starting from the Observation Proposal reception and archiving, the long term observation scheduling up to the detailed weekly planning and telecommands sequence uplinking, and vice versa the scientific and housekeeping raw telemetry acquisition and archiving, quick look data analysis, data reformatting and distribution as a Final Observation Tape to the Observation Proposal PI. ...

... The schedule assigned id (example: AS05) for your observing program. ... Use the time you started using the telescope including when you started taking calibrations. The time you opened for on sky observations can be entered later in the activity log. UTC End Time: . ... Focus Log: . ... The focus position can be obtained under the Telescope column of the System Status in ACP or from the run log. ... When all fields are filled out press this button to email the log to the ARCSAT and community. ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Fast Tip Tilt / Tech Meet 4 . ... Attendees: JSY, MF, ADR, CAH, DFB, EBS, XS, DMAW . ... ADR & CAH: Layout and tolerancing of transmissive optical system . ADR & CAH: Use tolerancing results to assign image quality and stability budgets by component . ... MF: Thermal analysis of camera in box . ... Image Quality and Stability Criteria - Transmissive Systems (ADR) . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIFastTipTilt/TechMeet4) ...

... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? How to use SAS SAS Workshops SAS Version Changes Download and Install SAS Science Simulator (SciSim) . ... Is this going to be your first download of the SAS? ... Which version of the SAS do you intend to download? SAS version? RedHat 9 RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 Fedora Core 3 SuSE 8.2 SuSE 7.3 Solaris 9 Solaris 8 Mac OS X 10.4 Mac OS X 10.3 VMWare for Windows . ... How many SAS users are going to be served through your download? ...

... Observing . Observing details . ... Mike Keith has code to parse these schedules to produce a list of pulsar-specific Parkes observing. ... Please identify which observing sessions you can support and then click on "add new" on Mike's pulsar-specific schedule to add your name to the roster. ... Familiarise yourself with the current remote observing documentation listed below. ... The PPTA dashboard allows anyone to view the log from the current or any previous observing session: . ... PPTA log . ...

... The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

The following are useful tcsh completions I use, which should mostly be fairly standard for any unix platform, so you can just drop them into place. # directories complete cd 'C/*/d/' complete rmdir 'C/*/d/' complete lsd 'C/*/d/' # signal names # also note that the initial - can be created with the first completion # but without appending a space (note the extra slash with no # append character specified) ...

Filename completion is only available if the the environment variables EDITOR and/or VISUAL are set to either emacs , gmacs or vi . For example: EDITOR=emacs . ... To complete a file or directory name with emacs or gmacs set press the ESC key twice. ls -l on<ESC><ESC> line_help . If the filename is not completed enter more characters until the filename can be uniquely identified. ... To complete a file or directory name with vi set press the \ (backward slash) key. ls -l on\ line_help . ...

... The following charts/text are intended as tools for monitoring the Type Ia supernovae ( SNe ) event visually or photographically (utilizing telescope equipped CCD equipment).The files include: A replication of The Type Ia SNe , V- magnitude (with data point checks from other cited references)and color index (B-V) templete (to indicate a general color-related trend of the type Ia ... I believe this might help alleviate some of the problems involving the making of acceptable amateur light curves...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Opportunityт??s devilish view from on high . ... Dave's Universe . ... Planck's High Frequency Instrument completes its survey of early universe . ... The High Frequency Instrument (HFI) on the European Space Agencyт??s (ESA) Planck mission has completed its survey of the remnant light from the Big Bang. ... Plank has been measuring these patterns by surveying the whole sky with its HFI and its Low Frequency Instrument (LFI)....

... The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... A Minor Planet's Night Out . ... Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter are thousands of rocky bodies. ... In 1804 came Juno; in 1807, Vesta. ... Most minor planets, as asteroids are sometimes affectionately called, hum in elliptical orbits between Mars and Jupiter. ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

... Precisely one month ago, on 11 July 2009, the last active area of the new solar cycle disappeared from the surface of the Sun. Over the 30 days following this, neither observers on Earth nor devices in space have been able to detect the emergence of any sunspots. ... Therefore, it seems that our star has once again returned to a state of deep solar "winter", following several sparks of activity in May-June 2009. ... To date, this period has lasted 30 days. ...

... For any PostScript hardcopy printer that has been assigned by ASSIGN/GRAPH , MIDAS produces a so-called encapsulated PostScript file. Using a public domain macro package ( e.g. Psfig/TeX) this PostScript plot file can, with a minimum of effort, be included in TeX or LaTeX documents. To do so, in the TeX or LaTeX document one should refer to the (possibly renamed) MIDAS PostScript file (normally pscrplot.ps ). ... Here is how the LaTeX text file with the included MIDAS plot then looks like. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Section 3: File Menu . ... Displays the dialog to open an existing image: . ... Saves the current image as a new file name or new file type, or both. ... This can be useful to prevent having 20 or more images open at once, and saves having to close them manually. ... This is done by creating a text file with the same name as the image file. ... Note that Image Information is saved within the FITS file, so there will not be a text file to accompany these files. ...