... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

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... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Processed Calibration Files for VLT instruments Now Available . ... ESO Data . ... ESOReflex data reduction workflows can be used to customize the generation of the processed and co-added calibration frames and to apply them to the science files. A detailed step-by-step guide on how to automatically associate the appropriate calibrations, raw or processed, to the science files of interest is available . ...

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FGS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Fine Guidance Sensor Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... 1.2 Instrument Handbook Layout . 1.3 The FGS as a Science Instrument . ... 1.4.4 FGS1r and the AMA . ... 1.4.6 Modes of Operation . ... Chapter 2: FGS Instrument Design . ... 3.2 Position Mode: Precision Astrometry . 3.3 Transfer Mode: Binary Stars and Extended Objects . ... 3.3.2 Transfer Mode Performance . ... 5.3 Linking Transfer and Position Mode Observations . ... 7.3.1 Position Mode . ...

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. ...

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... hkgtigen (hkgtigen-1.14.2) [xmmsas_20080701_1801-8.0.0] . ... This does not exclude the possibility to apply this GTI data set to single-exposure event lists. ... For doing this, please construct the GTI sets for all desired instruments (e.g. gti_om.ds , gti_emos1.ds , gti_sc.ds ) and combine them in the selection expression that drives the filtering process in task evselect : evselect table=ev.ds expression="TIME in gti(gti_emos1.ds) && \ TIME in gti(gti_om.ds) && TIME in gti(gti_sc.ds)" .. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Hitching a Ride on a Comet . Mercury, November/December 1996 Table of Contents . ... Late in the evening of Jan. 30, 1996 in Japan's Kyushu region, Yuji Hyakutake left his home in Kagoshima and drove to an observing site far from city lights. ... We bought our daughter a telescope to see the comet," she said, "and we can't see anything!" ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

... Archives . ... On the other hand, CHASC scientists relate more general and broad statistical inference problems in estimating the intensity map, like intensity uncertainties at each point and the scientifically informative display of the intensity map with uncertainty according to the Poisson count model and constraints from physics and the instrument, where the field, multiscale modeling is associated. As the post title [MADS] indicates, no abstract has keywords multiscale modeling. ...

AO Home AO Astronomy Schedule Receivers CIMA AO IDL . This page describes the backends available for passive radio astronomy observations. ... PUPPI The Puerto Rico Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument, for single-pixel pulsar observations. The Mock Spectrometers for spectral line and pulsar observing using the full 300 MHz bandwidth of ALFA and . single-pixel observing with 7 164 MHz boards or 14 boards with a bandwidth of 82 MHz or less in 7 independently steerable groups. ...

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... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

Next: Creation of the Up: The Data Organizer Previous: Creating The Observation . Table: Formulation of a Classification Rule . A natural way of getting an overview of the data one has consists of classifying the files into a set of groups. One may for instance want to group the frames according to the exposure type or one may need to put together all the files observed in a given instrument mode. ... Classification of images . ... Checking the quality of the data using the OST . ...

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