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. Next: A Quick Look Up: Spectral-Line Observing at AO Previous: THE SOURCE LIST . This section describes using the AO-Control GUI - a graphical user interface (GUI) to the Arecibo observing/datataking system - for spectral line observations. If you would like more information on the general properties of the GUI, go to http://www.naic.edu/ aoui . Subsections . A Quick Look . The Details . Useful Stuff . koneil@naic.edu

... 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. ...

OptInt PmWiki . MROI Delay Line / . ... Interface Control . ... PmWiki . ... Here is the agreed list of Interface Control Documents, taken from Delay Line ICD Allocations and N-squared Diagram Subset : . ICD: Delay line to ICS (INT-406-ENG-0002) [TC] . ICD: Delay line to Beam Relay system INT-406-VEN-0008) [MF] . ... Delay Line ICD List.pdf ... 180,461 bytes .. June 03, 2009, at 01:44 PM . Delay Line to Beam Combining Facility ICD INT-406-VEN-0009v0.6.pdf ... 174,053 bytes .. ...

... We have developed an integrated system that performs astronomical observations in Near Infrared bands operating two-dimensional instruments at the Italian National Infrared Facility's ARNICA and LONGSP . ... The user interface is organized as widget-based X11 client. ... 1993; Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ... Moreover, if the interprocess communication interface includes support for networking, the software immediately becomes network distributed software. ... DESQview/X User Guide 1993, Quarterdeck . ...

The SAOtng graphical user interface consists of menus, accelerator buttons, the image window, the panner, and the colorbar. The menus provide much of the functional support in SAOtng: . ... The image display window is the heart of the SAOtng user interface. Images are displayed in this window. ... The Panner window provides a visual representation of the section of the image being displayed in the current frame, relative to the image (section) being maintained in SAOtng`s memory. ...

The ATNF -Parkes-Swinburne Recorder ( APSR ) Willem van Straten Andrew Jameson and Matthew Bailes Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing Swinburne University of Technology Grant Hampson and Dick Manchester The Australia Telescope National Facility Second ATNF Gravitational Wave Workshop 13 December 2007 Outline · Baseband Recording and Processing Systems · Hardware Specification · ...

... STAN - FOS Analysis | ... December 1994 | ... CONTENTS: - FOS NEWS + Safing event + Erratum in CAL/FOS-130 Table 14 - RECENT FOS SCIENCE - OBSERVATION LOG FILES PRODUCED VIA THE PIPELINE - APPENDIX: FOS CONTACTS ================================================================================ FOS News -------- Safing Event ------------ The FOS safed due to the "overlight" limit being exceeded during a MIRROR acquisition of a highly variable object on 30 November 1994. ... 1995 ApJ in press. ...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Harold Drew Beck O RAL H ISTORY: 9 December 2004 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.S ... Control Tower School, Keesler AFB, Biloxi, MS (1951-1952) Roberts Company, Sanford, NC (1956) NASA EXPERIENCE: Langley Research Center , Langley, VA (1959-1961) · Aeronautical Research Engineer ... Harold Beck Service Record Card, Harold Beck Personnel File, Human Resources Office, NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. ...

... APOD: 2005 December 28- Smooth Sections on Asteroid Itokawa . ... 28.12.2005 . ... The unusual asteroid is currently being visited by the Japan ese spacecraft Hayabusa that is documenting its unusual structure and mysterious lack of craters . Last month, Hayabusa actually touched down on one of the smooth patches, dubbed the MUSES Sea, and collected soil samples that will eventually be returned to Earth for analysis. ... December . December 2005 . ... Smooth Sections on Asteroid Itokawa . ...

... 2005 December 28 . Smooth Sections on Asteroid Itokawa . ... Explanation: Why are parts of this asteroid's surface so smooth? ... The unusual asteroid is currently being visited by the Japan ese spacecraft Hayabusa that is documenting its unusual structure and mysterious lack of craters . Last month, Hayabusa actually touched down on one of the smooth patches, dubbed the MUSES Sea, and collected soil samples that will eventually be returned to Earth for analysis. ... About APOD | ...

Slithead identification (which slithead is installed?) will be sensed and reported by the on-board spectrograph computer. ... Observer's software to handle spectrographic observations will be written by JHU and installed on the Fermilab supplied observatory workstation. ... UW will be responsible for the slithead latch-down control. ... Database computer at APO: The observer's software will query the observatory database for information on the currently installed fiber cartridge. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2012 > Real Time Control for Adaptive Optics Workshop . ... ESO Data . ... The 3 rd Edition of the Real Time Control for Adaptive Optics Workshop is scheduled for spring 2014. The real-time control system (RTCS) is a crucial component for any astronomical adaptive optics (AO) system. ... As such, the workshop is aimed at real-time control specialists, instrument scientists and adaptive optics engineers. ...

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

... Old World First Asteroid Radar Echo. ... It testifies that 4179 Toutatis is a double object like asteroid 4769 Castalia. ... Interference of Radar Echo from the Binary Asteroid 4179 Toutatis. ... An analysis of the 6-cm radar data revealed quasi-harmonic oscillation of the echo’s “central” Doppler frequency with a period of about 14 sec and a deviation of about (0.7*B) Hz, where B is the echo bandwidth, which for 4179 Toutatis was equal to 2.1 Hz and 1.9 Hz for 1992 Dec 8 and 9, respectively. ...

... TNG . ... FIRST LIGHT OF ARNICA . ... The ARcetri INfrared CAmera ( ARNICA ) has been installed in the week 6-13 December 1998 at the TNG Nasmyth A focus (see Figure 1.) The interface is meant to support the optical imager ( OIG ), the infrared camera (ARNICA will be later substituted by NICS ), and the adaptive optics module ( ADOPT@TNG ). ... Arnica is a DRO camera for infrared imaging operating in wavelength range between 0.9 and 2.6 microns and is equipped with a Nicmos3 256x256 detector. ...

INTEGRAL observations of SS433 : new results Anatol Cherepashchuk Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia In collaboration with: Rashid Sunyaev ... Eleonora Antokhina, Nikolai Shakura, Darja Kosenko, Elena Seifina,Sergey Molkov (IKI) 1 Overview · Introduction · · · · Observations Analysis of hard X-ray spectra Analysis of hard X-ray eclipses Discussion and conclusions December 26, 2007 ...

... March 25, 2006 : Version 3.0.0 New control panel with an observing queue and a log Pointing to apparent position including proper motion precession and nutation to epoch of ... declination axis to polar axis non-orthogonality optical axis skew altitude- and azimuth-dependent mechanical effects encoder reference Control of telescope hardware August 20, 2006 Version 3.0.4 Modifications from Dan Azari adding features suported by the RC Optical Systems ...

... AGU Fall Meeting, 15-19 December 2008, San Francisco, poster . Zotov L., Shum C.K, Singular spectral analysis of GRACE observations Climate, Statistics, and Satellites, a symposium in honor of Jerry North , June 8-10, 2009, Presidential Conference Center, Texas A University, talk . 2009 Fulbright Visiting Scholar Conference, 19-21 April 2009, Washington DC . ... Zotov L., Shum C.K., Singular spectrum analysis of GRACE observations, 9th Gamow summer school 17-23 August, 2009, Odessa, Ukraine . ...