... Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17 > Appendix D: Techniques for Dithering, Background Measurement andMapping > D.2 Strategies For Background Subtraction . D.2 Strategies For Background Subtraction . D.2.1 Compact Objects . D.2.2 Extended Objects . ... For compact objects, such as point sources, background subtraction can be achieved by moving the target across the camera field of view (see Figure D.1 ). ...

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COSPAR . CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOPS . FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM . ... This program is open to young scientists who have been participants at one of the COSPAR Capacity-Building workshops to enable them to build on skills gained at the workshop. ... The areas of research will be broadly restricted to topics that have been covered at a COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshop and applicants must have been a participant in one of these workshops. ... The performance of the applicant in the workshop project. ...

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... Omdetect classifies a source as being extended if its computed semi-major axis is greater than that of the point-spread function's semi-major axis (computed by using moments), by at least twice the error computed for the former. ... 1) The quantities the total raw pixel counts, total corrected raw pixel counts and the total raw background counts are initialised to zero. ... d) The total raw background counts is incremented by the value of the corresponding background-image pixel. ...

... Construction of the Observatory's principal buildings began in 1789, using plans drawn up by Francis Johnston, one of Ireland's most celebrated architects, a native of Kilmore, County Armagh who in later years became known as `Ireland's Wren'. The main buildings, which are of considerable architectural merit, comprise in their original designation a residence for the Astronomer, a meridian room, a library and several telescope domes. ...

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Following are instructions to build and install the programs in this distribution. Make sure that you have all necessary tools for building executables. ... The automatic build process expects a configuration file called Config.local . ... The configuration file specifies the directory in which to install the binaries, as well as control over the generation of debugging code and reference clock support. ... Cleans out object files, programs and temporary files. make distclean . ...

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This general purpose telescope enclosure offers simple access to the sky for small instruments. Its truss roof rolls back on the steel I-beams and tracks that extend to the north of the building. A chain drive attached to the underside of the trusses provides the power that makes opening the observatory simple. Heavy steel pins secure the roof when it is closed. ...

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Next: Creation of the Up: The Data Organizer Previous: Checking the quality . The association of scientific frames with suitable calibration images is achieved by selecting and ranking all calibration frames which for a given scientific exposure match a set of user defined selection criteria. ... For instance, this may in natural language be expressed as: ``Find for each scientific frame 2 dark exposures which have been observed within the same night. ... Association of Calibration Exposures . ...

... The azimuth position to maximize the dome signal building 2 was measured on 23jan13. ... Mount a 1400 Mhz helical antenna from john harmon's old office on the 4th floor of building 2. ... za = 15 deg The plots show the signal strength vs az,za for the spectral channel containing the tone (after hanning smoothing) (.ps) ( .pdf ) . ... The dashed colored lines show the azimth for the peaks at za= 19,17, and 15 degrees. ... The peak strength at a single za can change by 33 db in 3 degrees of azimuth . ...