... Although separate time series are made for each EPIC instrument, the same width is used for all, to facilitate comparison between instruments. Choice of the width is complicated by the possibility that, even though a source has passed the selection criteria outlined in subsection 3.2 , the counts may be null for as many as 2 out of the 3 EPIC instruments. ... The bin width is then rounded up to the nearest multiple of 10 seconds. ...

... Instruments are more complicated than star catalogs, but a MIDAS table file is still useful for holding the description of an instrument. ... The main sub-table contains information about the passbands used, and the second sub-table describes the detector(s). ... Basic data for an instrument file include the passbands used (and any coding that is used to represent them in the data); the detectors used, and their properties; and general information about temperature control and optical cleanliness. ...

FOS/BLUE Wavelength-Zeropoint Correction Procedure Summary: A significant time-dependent systematic shift of up to 7 quarter-stepped pixels (1.75 diodes) in the zero-point of the FOS/BL wavelength scale has been confirmed in FOS Instrument Science Report (ISR) CAL/FOS-149 (Rosa, Kerber, and Keyes). ... Figures 1 and 2 (PDF - 14 Kbytes) illustrate the magnitude of the observed shifts and the effectiveness of the quick-fix algorithm provided here. ... Obtain the FOS ISR: CAL/FOS-149 (PDF - 53 Kbytes) . ...

... GSAOI Home . Instrument . ... The Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) is a near-infrared adaptive optics camera that will be used with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system on the Gemini South 8-m telescope . ... Gemini's major instrumentation goal is to develop its Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system for scientific use on Gemini South. ... Existing adaptive optics systems use a single natural guide star or artifical laser guide star to measure this image blur. ...

... Instrument Description . Software: Version 4.0 . Version 3.0:Complete Documentation . ... ИОНОЗОНД ПАРУС, разработанный в ИЗМИРАН, предназначен для диагностики ионосферы и оперативного прогноза КВ связи. ... Общая структура ИОНОЗОНДА ПАРУС, Технические Характеристики , Конструктивные параметры на настоящий момент соответствуют модификации Комплекса: ВЕРСИЯ 3.0 . ... Там же находится полное описание Комплекса ИОНОЗОНД ПАРУС: ВЕРСИЯ 3.0 . ... 2004 IONOSONDE PARUS ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > Paranal Facilities > Paranal Instrumentation . ... Offered Instruments . ... Paranal News . ... Paranal Instrumentation . ... Overview . ... Instrument Description . Manuals . ... Visitor Instructions . ... VLTI Visitor Instrument . ... Paranal Science Operations . ... The links to the different instruments provide an overview of the respective instrument capabilites and the offered instrument modes. ... Last Update: 29.02.16 ESO . ...

... 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 following papers summarize the characterization and technical performance of IBIS : . ... Characterization of Fabry-Perot interferometers and multi-etalon transmission profiles. ... Righini, A., Cavallini, F., Reardon, K. P., 2010, Astronomy and Astrophysics , 515 , A85, . ... The filter wheel is located between the two interferometers. ... The interferometers can be rapidly tuned, simultaneously, so to allow sequential scanning of the spectral lines of interest (see movie in IBIS Intro ). ...

... Up: Data Processing Systems . ... koda, P. & lechta, M. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... The reduction of raw echelle data is a straightforward, although quite complicated task, where the reliability of the final result strongly depends on precise accomplishment of each step. ... We used them for processing of raw CCD echellegram of early-type stars secured with HEROS fiber echelle spectrograph currently installed at Cassegrain focus of Ond ejov observatory 2m telescope. ... The fit is then done order by...

... Orbiter . Payload of the Orbiter . ... the instruments . ... ORBITER . Index . Instrument . Mass (kg) . ARGUS . ... visible and IR mapping spectrometer . ... planetary IR Fourier spectrometer . ... mapping visible and thermal radiometer . ... mapping high-resolut. spectrophotometer . ... multichannel optical s spectrometer . ... quadrupole mass-spectrometer . ... fast omnidir. energy-mass ion analyzer . ... wave complex . ... platform for ARGUS instruments . ... MASS-MEM . ...

... The low energy plasma composition spectrometer AMEI-2 is built to be able to find in the low energy range of the phase space (E, q, j) and separate the fluxes of the major ion species in the magnetotail - H+, He++, He+ and O+, and analyse their energy and angular distributions. ... Electrostatic angular scanning in one direction and the use of the spin of the satellite to sample the other angle give the ability to measure 2-D distributions for each ion specie several times per spin. ...

Modern AstroStatistics has emerged as a new field in recent times, informed by a Bayesian foundation, utilizing powerful computational tools like MCMC, and applied to diverse analysis and inference problems in Astronomy. ... The goal of our Special Session is to review current practices, highlight modern techniques, and explore how the transition into the realm of Big Data Astronomy can be facilitated. ... Big Computing in Astronomy: Perspectives and Challenges . ...

... Space flight . ... Baikonur . ... Space camp . ... The Baikonur space vehicles and missiles launch site is a complicated engineering and technical complex. ... The "ATLAS aerospace" company invites you to visit the Baikonur launch site, to witness a space vehicle launch, as well as to participate in pre-launch activities. ... Directly before the space vehicle launch you can get acquainted with its crew, attend a space suits donning and integrity check procedures and a press - conference. ...

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Maxim KAZARYAN (Steklov Institute and IUM, Moscow): Hodge integrals and the tautological ring of the moduli space of curves . The cohomology ring of the (compactified) moduli spaces of algebraic curves has extremely complicated structure and there is no hope to get its complete description. It happens, however, that cohomology classes which are interesting from the point of view of applications form a relatively small subring of the whole cohomology ring and its description is much simpler. ...

Instructional Videos - ETX-60 & ETX-80 Backpack Observatory . ... The Backpack . WMV . ... About Meade | ... Meade Universe | ... Copyright 2006 Meade Instruments Corporation, All Rights Reserved . ...

Next: References Up: No Title Previous: Scientifically discovered God . What does it mean, God being discovered scientifically, or Superintelligence? And what is the future science dealing with an endlessly complicated world? ... But a human lexicon has also so important words as ``to understand'' and ``to believe''. ... And how the scientifically discovered God which has been inevitably reached by the modern simple science correlates with the religious God? ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . Out-Of-Focus (OOF) Holography . ... The architecture of the OOF data reduction software can be summarised in following points: . ... A well defined set of external libraries is used and generally newer versions of these libraries are adopted quickly after release . ... Routines for simulating OOF data-sets . ... OOF ? ... Description of the OOF software architecture . ... OOF Reduction Software . ... Copyright 2005 -- 2016, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

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RTT150 . ... The primary mirror 1 reflects light to the secondary mirror 2 which sends the converging beam of light to the system of four flat mirrors 3, 4, 5 and 6. That allows the beam of light to leave the telescope strictly along its polar axis and be collected in Coude focus. ... That's why at any tube position (for any rotation along the declination axis) beam of light parallel to the principal axis after reflection on mirror 3 follows the direction of declination axis. ...