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... On Sunday, April 13 (103/22:21:08 GMT) HST entered Zero Gyro Sun Point Safemode due to system momentum failing in response to a stalled gyro 3. ... The gyro 3 motor current began to increase at 103/22:18:30 GMT and stabilized at 330 mA approximately 90 seconds later. ... At 103/23:51:28 GMT gyro 3 was command on and after the expected turn-on spike saddled to a reasonable motor current at a nominal level. ... During the Zero Gyro Sun Point Safemode all subsystems reported nominal performance. ...

Next: Context Levels Up: MIDAS Command Language Previous: Interrupting Procedures . ... In MIDAS, the ENTRY command defines entry points for different procedures in the same file. These individual procedures are executed by specifying also their entry point besides the file name in the `@@' command. ... DEFINE/PARAM P1 11 NUMBER "Enter input number: " . DEFINE/MAXPAR 1 ! only one parameter expected . ... DEFINE/PARAM P1 spiral IMA "Enter input image: " . ... DEFINE/LOCAL LOOP/I/1/1 0 . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... September Perseid meteors captured by the . ... Its occurrence provides astronomers with interesting new data about the hidden trails of meteoroids тАФ small bodies ranging in size from fine dust particles to objects of marble-size and larger тАФ in the solar system and their supposed sources: comets and asteroids passing through the inner solar system. ... The particular comet that created the September Perseids is unknown...

... IRIG-B available for FTT Actuators and tellbacks for FTT optics (TBD) FLC FTT /NAS GUIs: Common Requirements Capability to display and operate from: ­ ­ NMT-supplied Linux computer in the MROI control room NMT-supplied laptop in UTE Display -only mode , when controlled by ISS FTT GUI (i) Control of all FTT /NA system functions, including diagnostic functions; Live display of acquisition ...

... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

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Next: HST Paper Products: A New Way to Look at HST Data . ... After providing on-the-fly re-calibration of HST data to archive users, ST-ECF has embarked on a new project aiming at grouping, cosmic ray cleaning and drizzling images taken by most HST instruments. ... The production of the missing jitter files combined with the extraction of additional engineering parameters will greatly enhance the homogeneity and the scientific value of the entire archive. ... 1995, HST Data Handbook, STScI, 107 . ...

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... Psrcat . ... Then select the correct version of tcs - check with local staff or look on the control-room whiteboard for this: . ... Select Pulsar, Expert mode and if desired an appropriate Recall state file (click on the arrow to browse). ... Select a schedule file (Sched file/Own). ... Data files are in PSRFITS format with extension .rf for pulsar files and .cf for calibration files. ... A complete record of all TCS operations and messages is recorded in the tcsgui.log files for each observing day....

... 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. ...

Next: Mission Element Points-of-Contact . Previous: Mission Operations Data Transfer . ... Each mission element should ensure that their contact information remains current and notify the RSOG of any changes. ... Non-RSOG mission elements will also use the "dit" list to notify the RSOG (and all other mission elements) of unexpected events that may impact operations elsewhere, e.g., if a tracking station discovers that the spacecraft is in an unexpected configuration. ...

... Science . ... ESO Data . ... If you wish to interface GASGANO to VLT instrument pipeline recipes build on top of the ESO Common Pipeline Library (CPL) and the qfits library , you will have to download and use the specific instrument package available here . ... To use the latest Gasgano version (2.4.8), Java 7 must be available on your system. ... Type java -version on the command line to verify that the printed java version is 1.7.x. You MUST be under your $HOME directory to install GASGANO: . ...

XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based telescope control program developed by John Kielkopf (kielkopf@louisville.edu) to operate a telescope connected to a Linux computer system. ... About Epoch ----------- XmTel assumes that the telescope is set to "Epoch of Date", which means that it is using ideal celestial coordinates precisely aligned today. ... XmTel assumes that target coordinates entered from the keyboard are in the Epoch that the telescope coordinates are currently displayed in. ...

Next Previous Contents . This means that an interrupt happened that no driver expected. ... In many cases you can safely ignore this error message, especially if it only happens once or twice at boot-time. For boot-time messages, look at the messages which are nearby for a clue as to what is going on. For example, if probing is going on, perhaps a probe for a physical device caused that device to issue an interrupt that the driver didn't expect. ...

... Schedule . cont - continue schedule execution after a halt [SNAP Commands] . ... label - enter tape VSN and check-label (non-S2 drive) [SNAP Commands] . ... newtape - halt schedule until new tape is mounted [SNAP Commands] . ... terminate - end field system operation [SNAP Commands] . ... Listing the Schedule ( list command) [Experiment Operations] . ... New Tape Ready ( label command) [Experiment Operations] . ... Starting a Schedule ( schedule command) [Experiment Operations] . ... Setup . ...

... Meta Index / Home Page This section documents the parameters recognized by this task (if any). ... string . ... maxlegal'/`maxactual'/`user' . ... If xrangetype is set to `maxlegal', the values of TLMINn and TLMAXn are used, where n is the number of the column whose name is given by the xcolumn parameter. ... When xrangetype is set to `user', this parameter is expected. xmax . ... This is set if the total flux image should be read (using the name given in parameter imageset ) rather than created. ...

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Novermber 2008 - WORK IN PROGRESS We are currently using the (just announced end-of-life) Netrestore software to install our systems. ... We automount our NFS-based home directories. ... On the Mac end, edit /etc/autofs.conf, and add ",resvport" to the AUTOMOUNTD_MNTOPTS. ... This is more of a problem, because Finder is a busybody, sticking it's nose in business it shouldn't. Simply symlinking to an autmounted directory failed abysmally. ... Here's our current list of files we change, and why: . ...

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