... 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. ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Staff list | ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Parkes | ... VLBI . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... station=At: 64 sec: 557 sec: 5283.469 GB: 0 : : 1; . station=Cd: 455 sec: 557 sec: 2639.831 GB: 0 : : 1; . station=Ho: 114 sec: 557 sec:10509.135 GB: : : 1; . ... station=Ti: 369 sec: 557 sec: 5302.113 GB: : : 1; . station=Hh: 97 sec: 557 sec: 1451.520 GB: : : 1; . ...

STIS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 10: Summary and Checklist > 10.2 Phase II?Scheduling Approved Observations . ... Be sure to specify the coordinate source used, and, if applicable, include the GSC PLATE-ID in your Phase II proposal file. If your target has significant proper motion, be sure to also include this information in the appropriate fields in the Phase II proposal file. ... For CCD Observations: . ...

... Proposing for VLBI Time at Arecibo . ... Documentation (Field System, VLBA4 terminal, Mark 5 system) . ... In 2001, the Arecibo Observatory received its hybrid VLBA-MARK IV (VLBA4) data acquisition system, and currently NAIC commits Arecibo to support VLBI observing up to a maximum of 4% of the 305-m's observing time. ... Tracking Time (h:mm) . ... The inclusion of the 305-m Arecibo radio telescope can dramatically boost the sensitivity of VLBI observations, even with its limited source tracking...

... ALMA . ... ARC Staff at ESO . ... The European ALMA Regional Centre (ARC) provides the interface between the ALMA project and the European science community. ... Below you can read the latest Announcements from the European ARC Network.. ... The call for 1-mm Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) proposals to use phased ALMA at Band 6 in Cycle 4, in collaboration with the Event Horizon Telescope Consortium (EHTC), will be released to coincide with the ALMA Cycle 4 Call for Proposals in March 2016...

Welcome to the XMM-Newton Helpdesk . ... General User Support XMM-Newton Helpdesk Users Group . ... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... Questions can be submitted to the XMM-Newton Helpdesk via two interfaces: . Helpdesk web interface . Email to xmmhelp@sciops.esa.int For both of the above submission methods the question, and later its answer, will always be visible via the web interface , unless the message is marked as PRIVATE (if via email, including the word PRIVATE in the subject). ...

A demonstration of using the Exhibit framework (with a few local modifications to support using Google Sky) to display and search the Chandra Short-Term schedule . This is not guaranteed to be accurate, or up-to-date, since it is a demonstration. In particular, I have not tried to evaluate whether the items in the short-term schedule were actually observed, so there may well be overlapping observations or un-observed items included in the list. ... Return to the exhibit ; . ...

... 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. ...

... In the context of the autonomous TAROT observatory we have developed an automatic scheduling software. ... With the advent of automatic telescopes and the use in service mode of large facilities, the problem of efficient night scheduling is becoming more important. ... However, we encountered some difficulties handling periodic or constrained requests with a large time interval, and it is unable to give to the telescope users and operators the visibility over the schedule. ...

... 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...

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Next: Reducing the observations Up: PEPSYS general photometry Previous: Influencing the plan . ... If the telescope and instrumentation are unfamiliar to you, you may have trouble keeping to the schedule for the first night or two, so try to work with a previous observer on the equipment for a night or two of training before your observing run. If you fall behind, try to keep as many low-altitude observations of extinction stars as you can, and drop some circumzenithal ones if necessary. ...

Over the coming weeks an international team, including Simon Jeffery , Vincent Woolf and Amir Ahmad of the Armagh Observatory, will use over fifteen different telescopes to make over one hundred nights of observations of just one star to learn about its internal structure. ... Although the approach has been used before, this may be the first time that a global asteroseismology project has tried to measure both light and spectrum variations at the same time for any star apart from the Sun. ...

ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

Next: References Up: A Method of Integrating Previous: Description of algorithm . In April 1996 the described method was included in the software of automatic data acquisition complex "Continuous". ... The measuring of sensibility by observing at the wave lengths of 1.38cm and 2.7cm. The measuring of sensibility by observing at the wave lengths of 3.9cm and 7.6cm. wave lengths. The measuring of sensibility by observing at the wave lengths of 13.0cm and 31cm. wave lengths. ...

Next: GOCG Pre-Observation Products . Previous: RadioAstron Mission Element Overview . ... Observation Summary File (OSF) . GRT (Ground Radio Telescope) Schedule Files . ... How: The long-term schedulers will produce two files: GSTS-file (General Space Telescope Schedule) to be used by GOCG and LTS-file for all mission elements. ... What: The RSOG will produce schedule files for all GRTs participating in a particular observation, in the format required by each GRT. ...

... 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. ...

Next: NICMOS/HST H-band (F160W) Images Up: NICMOS Science Previous: HST NICMOS Observations of . ... Observations of P . ... The NICMOS team has devised a comprehensive program of observations of the Galactic Center. ... Data in hand give a first look at variability and a detailed look at the search for the tip of the main sequence will be discussed where NICMOS has demonstrated adequate sensitivity and photometric precision to identify likely O8-B1 stars at the Galactic Center. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Nearly four centuries ago, Galileo's simple observations of Earth's planetary sibling, Venus, buoyed the proponents of a Copernican universe. ... The Italian astronomer had settled into a new house in Florence and had begun to observe Venus, which in November 1610 would have appeared as an evening star, bright in the western sky after dusk. ... From these two observations, Galileo inferred that Venus must orbit closer to the Sun than does Earth. ...

... Perhaps the most interesting satellites in this group are the ones sent into distant orbits, some of them extending well past the Moon--e.g. the WIND spacecraft pictured here. Among them is a long series of IMP s (Interplanetary Monitoring Platforms) which sampled the Earth's distant magnetic environment, the magnetosphere, and the surrounding interplanetary region; IMP-8 is still returning good data, more than 20 years after its launch. ...