... On the right side you will find all exposures of each instrument: . The exposures are aligned as bars with some text information. The size of the bar is related to the duration of the exposure, and the position of each bar depend on the instrument it belongs to and the start time of the exposure. ... Note, that the duration of some exposures can be quite short, such that the text in the bar is not always readable. ... This text can be the exposure id , instrument filter , or instrument mode . ...

... It provides long range planning information to the scheduling team; it provides bright object, timing, and orientation information to the observation planning team; and it provides graphical description of the observations and their constraints. ... The GUI graphically displays the constraints that are computed by Spike and stored in the description files and in the database. ... BOAS processes all bright objects that have entered the database since the last time BOAS was run. ...

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. ...

Instrument Overview . ... Spectral Filters . Quantum Efficiency and Exposure Limits . ... Which Instrument to Use: WFPC2, ACS, NICMOS, or STIS? Comparison of WFPC2 and ACS . Comparison of WFPC2 and NICMOS . Comparison of WFPC2 and STIS . History of WFPC2 . ... WFPC2 . ... What's New in Version 5.0 for Cycle 10 . ... Calibration Channel . ... LRF Photometric Calibration . ... Wood's Filters . ... Sources of Dark Current . ... Calibration Plan Summary . Cycle 4 Calibration Plan . ...

... The Miriad task uvgen can be used to simulate a variety of observing modes. ... Simulating a telescope approximately, let alone in some detail, requires a good many parameters. uvgen takes an appreciable number of parameters and input files to describe the telescope, correlator and source. Fortunately keyword and set-up files for some common situations exist ( e.g. simulating the ATCA and VLA). ... For example, to load typical parameters for the ATCA, use miriad% source $MIRCAT/uvgen.def.atca . ...

... user-defined data file formats . ... better integration with a user's analysis routines To add such functionality to SAOimage, we developed the XPA Messaging System that allows X programs to define points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with external programs. ... We have utilized XPA to develop "SAOimage: The Next Generation" (SAOtng), an extensible image display service that can cooperate with other processes and programs. ... SAOtng help pages . ...

Next: Summary of reduction Up: Echelle Reduction Previous: Saving the Data . In the present version we will be concerned with the standard configuration of CASPEC, the Cassegrain Echelle Spectrograph which is in operation at the Cassegrain focus of the ESO 3.6 m telescope. ... In its standard configuration CASPEC uses a a 31.6 lines/mm echelle grating together with a 300 lines/mm grating cross disperser. ... The table shows the change in resolution with the order number. Table: Resolution . ...

CHIANTI - an atomic database for emission lines. ... K.P.Dere, E.Landi, H.E.Mason, B.C.Monsignori-Fossi, P.R.Young, 1997, A , 125, 149 . Article: Available from ADS . The Arcetri Spectral Code for thin plasmas . E.Landi M.Landini 1998, A , 133, 1 . ... E.Landi, M.Landini K.P.Dere, P.R.Young, H.E.Mason, 1999, A , 135, 339 . ... K.P.Dere, E.Landi, P.R.Young, G.Del Zanna, 2001, ApJS, 134, 331 . ... G.Del Zanna, B.J.I.Bromage, E.Landi, M.Landini, 2001, A , 379, 708 . ...

... CIMAFITS is the name for the Arecibo FITS-file format. ... This is a list of (fairly) up-to-date documents describing CIMA and CIMAFITS: . The CIMA version history log which is the most up-to-date page listing all changes made to the different versions of CIMA . ... The CIMA user's log which chronologically lists changes made to CIMA that may be relevant to an observer. The CIMA engineering log which lists engineering changes made to CIMA that probably are of less interest to an observer. ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

... Description(Russian): [ HTML ] [ PDF ] . ... 2002 : source L A T E X and export to [ HTML ], [ PDF ], [ PS ], [ OpenOffice ], [ MSWord ] . 2003 : source L A T E X and export to [ HTML ], [ PDF ], [ PS ], [ OpenOffice ], [ MSWord ] . 2004 : source L A T E X and export to [ HTML ], [ PDF ], [ PS ], [ StarOffice ], [ MSWord ] . 2005 : source L A T E X and export to [ HTML ], [ PDF ], [ PS ], [ StarOffice ], [ MSWord ] . ... 2014 : source HTML and export to [ PDF ], [ MSWord ], [ ODT ] . ...

... CCD is a NICMOS 3 HgCdTe Focal Plane Array (FPS) 256x256 CCD . CCD pixel size = 40 m . CCD gain = 4.73 e - /ADU 0.2 (K.Gloria measured in 1994: 4.56 e - / ADU ( see plot here ) . CCD read noise = 110 e - / pixel 20 . ... Pixel scale = 0.48"/pixel @ f/5 (120 arcsec FOV), 0.24"/pixel @ f/10 (60 arcsec FOV), 0.11"/pixel @ f/20 (30 arcsec FOV) all binned 1x1 . ...

... development and tests of instrument control sequences; . ... measurement and checks of electrical interfaces; . ... standard TCP/IP link from PC to electrical interface unit; . ... galvanic insulation of interfaces; . modular structure of the interface unit with set of modules for standard space OBDH interfaces: MIL-1553, LVDS, RS232/422/485, UKS, etc.; . ... relay command simulator IRKON (160 duplicated commands); . ... Ilya Chulkov, Head of laboratory +7(495)333-45-23, ilya@hea.iki.rssi.ru . ...

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF DATABASE . It is a matter of common knoledge, that solar magnetic fields and, in particular, magnetic fields of sunspots, play important role in many solar events. In Pulkovo observatory the long-term data set of daily observations of magnetic fields of solar sunspots was accumulated, which contains great potential for further researches in solar physics. ... Second section includes files containing sum data about magnetic fields for every observational day. ...

Orbital data : INTERBALL AZ GSE and GSM cartesian coordinates, GSE cartesian velocity (once per 10 minutes). ... Magnetic field data from IMAP experiment. Magnetic fileld absolute value and magnetic field index (the difference between absolute value and model value), status flag. ... Counts of H+ and O+ ions are accumulated during one spin period by detectors D6 (antisunward looking), D8 (spin plane), D10 (sunward looking) of TRICS2 subsystem (1.0-30 keV). ... TRICS1, TRICS2, TRICS3 subsystems: . ...

Next: NICMOS Science Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: NICMOS Software at the . ... Reference File Tools . Image Analysis and Reduction . ... These include the tasks used in the STScI pipeline, tools to generate the reference files used by the calibration pipeline tasks, and general image analysis, manipulation, and arithmetic tasks. ... Calnica is used to apply instrumental calibrations to individual datasets, while calnicb is used to process associated sets of NICMOS images. ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI VO Wiki . ... Program Access . SAI CAS Wiki . SAI Web Services . ... DSS Mirror . ... We provide an implementation of IVOA standard Simple Image Access Protocol interface to our DSS mirror. Service metadata is available here . Currently, we provide the atlas service only, which returns the list of original DSS images intersecting the requested sky area. ... SAI MSU | ...