... 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 . ...

The VLTI Calibrator Selector Tool is a tool intended to assist in the selection of suitable interferometric calibrators for VLTI observations with MIDI and AMBER. It uses a model of the VLTI and its instruments to assess the fringe visibility, given the observed bandpass, the geometry, spectrum, and coordinates of the target and the time at which the observations are to be made. ... The tool offers an HTML/Java based interface and consists of two pages. ... The quality flag depends on LDD_chi2. ...

... Standard: IEEE 1196, "Nubus-A simple 32-bit backplane bus". ... UNKNOWN CONNECTOR at the card. UNKNOWN CONNECTOR at the computer. ... Description . ... 12 VDC . ... Address/Data 1 . ... GND . Ground . ... Reserved ? ...

... Standard: IEEE 1196, "Nubus-A simple 32-bit backplane bus". ... UNKNOWN CONNECTOR at the card. UNKNOWN CONNECTOR at the computer. ... 12 VDC . ... Address/Data 1 . ... GND . Ground . ... Power to slot; 2 amps per slot maximum continuous. ... Slot Parity Valid; asserted if card provides parity. ... Address/Data bits 31 to 0. ... Geographical address 3 to 0; hard-coded to slot. ... Apple Tech Info Library 2194: Macintosh II NuBus Slots, Pinout at Apple TIL homepage . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... 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. ...

XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based telescope control program based on INDI, the Instrument-Neutral Distributed Interface. ... See the files LICENSE and COPYRIGHT for the details. ... 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. ...

... 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 | ...

Date: 10/25/2014 Time:05:25 Moon Age: 1.4 Available Observing Hours: 12.2 Observer: Instrument: Operator: Cage: Lebofsky, Crawford 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 02:00 17.3 54 5.1 SSW 1.8" Close 12:15 16.6 56 5.1 SSW 1.4" _________________ Description ______________________ Had 1.2" seeing in middle of night. ... This means wind speed and direction given above are meaningless. ...

... Run Specview In Applet Mode . ... Press Releases . ... Release Notes . ... You don't have to install Specview in your computer to have a taste of it, you can just run it in your Web browser as a Java applet. ... Clicking on the "Demonstration" link below will download the applet version of Specview. ... To run an "empty" (no pre-loaded data) version of the Specview applet, use the "Run" link instead. ... The applet requires that your Web browser be equipped with version 1.6 of the Java Plug-in. ...

Next: To produce a region Up: Image Display in Xwindows Previous: General usage. ... Menu items are chosen by clicking any mouse button (cf. ... save current cursor as an include region (counts within region will be included in subsequent calculations) . ... When another image is displayed, the earlier one can be compared with it by pressing its respective mouse button with cursor in the main display window. ... Table 1: Detailed list of menu options . ... color . ... enter/leave region sub-menu . ...

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