... The procedure simply observes ON your source for x minutes and then takes a `blank sky' observation OFF your source for the same amount of time and tracking the same azimuth and zenith angle range. ... Typically, observing times are kept to within 5 minutes (with 5 minutes as the most efficient, and therefore default, choice). ... If your scans are for 5 minutes or less, your wait time should be set to 1 minute (the default setting). ... A 5 minute ON/OFF + 10s CAL takes 11.3 minutes. ...

... It also sends commands to the trolley micro to switch between track mode and slew mode. ... Laser head (7702) Linear interferometer (7002) Retroreflector(7003) Various mirrors Beam expanders Fibre optic pickup Measurement board(2002) Datum switch(Sony SETP151) A schematic layout is shown below in Fig 1 Optical fibres connect the receiver to the measurement board and from the laser to the reference input on the measurement board. ... Reset the datum latch circuit. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Each image display has two independent cursors available. ... The interested user is referred to the command TUTORIAL/CURSOR which gives a demonstration of the possible cursor shapes. ... In general there is a switch for each cursor to define its status ON/OFF. When a cursor is active (ON) its position can be read by pressing the key. To exit an interactive cursor command one normally has to switch the cursors off and press the key. ... LOAD/CURSOR - load a programmable cursor . ...

EPS SMOV-3B Review Purpose and Description NLS 01/22/01 EPS-1: SA-3 Drive Mechanism Performance Purpose: Verify that the SA-3 Drive Mechanism is performing nominally and that the sensed positions are within +/- 3.5 degrees of the commanded position when operating within the range of 0 to 130 degrees and +/- 5.0 degrees if operating outside this range. ... J.10.4.14.1.2) Description: Power performance will be assessed and compared to beginning of life predictions that account for expected degradation. ...

Operations in Point operations use the pointer to query sets about points, delete points in a set, and move points. In all cases where interaction is required, pressing the right mouse button with the pointer in the drawing area cancels the operation. ... Report on a point in a set . ... Press the left mouse button. ... Press Delete point with the left mouse button to activate. ... Move the pointer to the new location and press the left mouse button again to register the point's new location. ...

Ground Support of RadioAstron . Control and Tracking Stations . RadioAstron satellite control (command transmission, telemetry, orbit measurements) will be conducted from Evpatoria and Bear Lake control stations. ... Coarse orbit measurements will be carried out from control stations. Each measurement takes ten minutes. ... Orbit measurements at tracking stations give only radial component of spacecraft velocity but the measurements are going continuously during observing sessions. ...

... This task operates on event data in an event list. ... In the first two cases, the celestial coordinates of the reference point are taken respectively as the values of the RA_NOM , DEC_NOM or RA_OBJ , DEC_OBJ values in the input event file header. ... Although the OM attitude information may be more accurate, it will not be present throughout part of the observation, and as such, the default source for the attitude data should be "ahf". ...

... PISTON piston . ... this command is not used by the TCC The guide camera mechanical controller sets the filter, focus and other mechanical functions, but not the position of the guide camera in the focal plane. Positioning, if available, is handled by one or two guider position axes controllers , one per axis of motion. ... Notifies the controller that subsequent commands apply to the guider mechanical controller. ... Sets the piston of the guider to the specified value (in decimal microns). ...

... to_tsvector( [ configuration , ] document TEXT) RETURNS TSVECTOR . Parses a document into tokens, reduces the tokens to lexemes, and returns a tsvector which lists the lexemes together with their positions in the document in lexicographic order. strip( vector TSVECTOR) RETURNS TSVECTOR . ... Returns the number of lexemes stored in the vector. text ::TSVECTOR RETURNS TSVECTOR . ... The text should be formatted like the vector would be printed by the output of a SELECT . ... Query Operations ...

... With the ATCA beam at 3mm being comparatively small ( ), it is possible for tracking errors to be significant. ... In additional poor tuning of the antenna drive systems can sometimes cause poor tracking, particiularly soon after a change in source. ... Tracking errors are caused by flaws in the drive servo system, whereas pointing errors are a sum of tracking errors and errors in the antenna pointing model. ... The task uvflag can be used to flag based upon rms tracking error. ...

... The Time shift for April, 17-18 20 April 1999 . ... The INTMINS April 1999 operations schedule was done on the base of the MIR ground track long-term prediction using the MIR's orbital elements status on 29/03/99 . ... The investigation of the time shift behaviour was began before 29/03/99 on the base of the different orbital elements determined (by KIAM RAN) 22/03/99, 25/03/99 and continued on the base of the orbital elements determined at 31/03/99, 5/04/99. ... Modified 20 April 1999  ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... A fixed-term Research Technician position is available at the Armagh Observatory funded by the Europlanet Research Infrastructure (RI) under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union (EU). ... For these purposes, there will be regular meetings of the technician with the PI at the Observatory, several per week during the initial phases of the project and a minimum of 1 per week thereafter. ...

... 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...

... Bus Hound may be the very first product of its kind -- a software bus analyzer for capturing device I/O and protocol. ... When the capture buffer fills to capacity, Bus Hound can be configured to stop the capture process or continue capturing, keeping the most recent acquired data. ... IDE : Bus Hound captures command and data transfers for ATA and ATAPI devices. ... B us Hound captures I/O using a device driver. ... The below figure demonstrates how Bus Hound captures data for SCSI devices. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

... An error involving a missing tasks parameter indicates that the parameter file may have changed between the last time the task was used and the current version. ... If still in trouble, delete the parameter file in `myiraf/uparm' corresponding to the task (the names are somewhat contrived, but with a bit of imagination it is not too difficult to identify the right one). ... The imcnts task and region masks . ... A region descriptor of the kind: . CIRCLE(403, 403, 22.5) . ... See `help regions'.) ...

The drawing presented in Figure 6 suggests a cryo-mechanical design based on a cylindrical vacuum shell, with total size dictated by total length of the optical system and wheels diameter. ... internal support structure for cold optics and detector; . cold optics, focal masks and filter wheels; . ... The detector, in thermal contact with the cold plate, will have an active temperature control, with an RDT sensor and a heater, both connected to an independent temperature controller. ...

... B=Command, 12AB=Azm, comma, 4000=Alt. ... Example: if the desired position is 220°, then POSITION_24BIT = (220/360)*224 = 10,252,743 Separate POSITION_24BIT into three bytes such that (POSITION_24BIT = PosHigh*65536 + PosMed*256 + PosLow). Exampe: PosHigh = 156, PosMed = 113, PosLow = 199 Send the following 8 bytes: a. Azm Slow Goto: 80, 4, 16, 23, PosHigh, PosMed, PosLow, 0 b. Alt Slow Goto: 80, 4, 17, 23, PosHigh, PosMed, PosLow, 0 The number 35 is returned from the handcontrol 4. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Chronology of Extravehicular Activity . ... Sea Launch . ... Land Launch . ... ILV "dry roll-out" (installation on the launch pad and critical launch readiness checklist); . ... Making the Rocket Segment systems ready for the launch site activities; . ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology ...