Date: 10/26/2014 Time:06:02 Moon Age: 2.4 Available Observing Hours: 12.2 Observer: Instrument: Operator: Cage: Lebofsky and Crawfor 90PrimeOne Trueblood PF hours lost to: weather: 0.0 telescope: 0.0 instrument: 0.0 computer: 0.0 Time Temp Humidity Wind Vel. Wind Dir. Seeing Open 01:10 17.7 64 N/A N/A 1.0" Close 12:50 15.6 74 N/A N/A 1.3" _________________ Description ______________________ Seeing often 1.1". N/A above is due to Weatherhawk's being down. Able to observe 10 objects.

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... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

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... Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17 > Chapter 8: Detector Readout Modes > 8.1 Introduction . ... NICMOS has four detector readout modes that may be used to take data. ... There are three supported readout modes: . ... Multiple-accumulate Mode (MULTIACCUM). ... The BRIGHTOBJ mode is not supported for Cycle 13 and later cycles; it is, however, an available mode for the special case of acquisition of very bright targets under the coronagraphic hole. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

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... Up: Telescope and Instrument Control Systems . ... The software is based on a client/server architecture and provides remote access for controlling, monitoring and troubleshooting the array. ... The server software is developed in C++ and runs on a UNIX host machine. ... This computer demonstration consists of remote observing with the Caltech Millimeter Array located at Owens Valley in California to show the feasibility and features of this software package. ... Figure 2: Array Status window. ...

... 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