... There are two ways to produce flat fields for use with IR data. The standard method is to take 'LAMP ON' and 'LAMP OFF' exposures of the calibration spot on the telescope dome. The 'LAMP ON' exposure contains light from both the calibration lamp, which should provide the even illumination needed for the flat field, together with potentially uneven illumination from the telescope and instrument environments. ... In MIDAS, you may directly use COMPUTE/IMAGE to perform the subtraction. ...

... The parameter pgdev allows the user to specify a pgplot device, but, in contrast to the pgplot standard, the file name should not be included, but instead supplied via the parameter plotfile . ... To write a colour postscript file called op.ps: pgdev=/cps plotfile=op.ps . However note that at present, if a colour postscript device ( pgdev = `/cps'), a fits file ( pgdev = `/fits') or a ppm file ( pgdev = `/ppm') are selected, the task in fact bypasses pgplot and writes the postscript file directly. ...

... We have been upgrading the software front-end to WASP (Wideband Autocorrelating SPectrometer, operating from 800 to 4000 MHz) from Lynx-OS to Real-Time Linux and will discuss Real-Time software aspects. We are using a standard parallel ``PIO'' card to receive data from the spectrometer and standard GPIB interfaces that drive a frequency synthesizer for bandpass calibration. WASP and its front-end computer are fully mobile and can be taken to any suitable radio telescope. ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Observing Tools and Services > Standard Stars Catalogues > Standard Star Catalogue Search Tool . ... Publications with ESO Data . ... ESO Data . ... This tool searches the standard star catalogues for standards that are within dX airmasses of the target at a given LST. ... In this case put the LST when the target was observed in the TargetLST box as before, and put the LST of the standard star observation in the StdObs LST box...

Next: Reducing 12-mm ATCA observations Up: Combining Mosaics and Single Previous: The Non-Linear Method - . Here we describe two ad hoc methods of combining single-dish and mosaic images. ... where and are the beam volumes of the synthesised mosaic beam and the single-dish beam respectively). ... If both the interferometer primary beam and the single-dish beam are gaussian forms with widths and respectively, then you will want to add a gaussian to the mosaic beam dataset which has a width . ...

... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

fileinput . ... Helper class to quickly write a loop over all standard input files. ... for line in fileinput. input (): . ... Functions filename (), lineno () return the filename and cumulative line . number of the line that has just been read; filelineno () returns its . ... been read, returns the line number of that line within the file. filename () . ... Before the first line has been read, returns None. input (files =None , inplace =0 , backup ='' , bufsize =0 , mode ='r' , openhook =None ) . ...

... Standard Commands . ... TwistedActor.Actor is core code for writing an actor: an instrument control computer (ICC) or hub-based script that does something useful. This manual describes the standard commands and keywords that any actor based on TwistedActor.Actor will support. All actors based on TwistedActor typically support the following standard commands (plus additional device-specific commands documented in that actor's manual). ... Connect one or more devices (if not already connected). ...

... Fortranљ66 . ... Fixed form . ... Whole Fortranљ66 . ... Continuation line indicated in column 6 . ... Blank line as comment . ... Extension in Unix .f .f .f .f90 .f .f90 . Extension in DOS .FOR .FOR .FOR .F90 .FOR .F90 . ... This applies to both fixed form and free form source code. ... Fixed form of the source code is discouraged in Fortran 95! ... In UNIX there is no concept called extension, and the extensions are not specified in the Fortran standard, but in informal manufacturer standards. ...

home events . ... Annual Meeting . Past Meetings . Other Workshops, Conferences and Events . ... Special Events . ... Conference Schedule . ... Please note: The Tremont Plaza Hotel is sold out for Friday July 29 and Saturday July 30, but there is room for July 31 onward. ... The Tremont Plaza Hotel . ... The hotel will guarantee the conference rate only up to July 1, 2011, and will extend the group rate up to three days before or after the conference on a space-available basis. ... events | ...

Describes how funtools can be integrated into the ds9 Analysis menu. SAOImage/DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application used by astronomers around the world. DS9 can display standard astronomical FITS images and binary tables, but also has support for displaying raw array files, shared memory files, and data files automatically retrieved via FTP and HTTP. ... It can be manually loaded into DS9 from the Load Analysis Commands ... option of the Analysis menu. ...

. This is the CIMA alternative drift map menu: . The following is the on-line help page for alternative drift map: . You can return to the main CIMA page by clicking here .

Blackholes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Alternative Idea . ... With the proposal of exotic super dense entities like quark stars and others including black holes, matter on the atomic level can, and most likely does, break down to its most simplist building blocks (photons, leptons, quarks, etc). ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Morning Session (10:00 am - 1:00 pm) . Invited reviews (40 minutes, including discussion) . ... The Cosmic Microwave Background: Recent Results and Interpretation . ... Joint Discussion (25 minutes talks, including discussion) . 14:30 Early Evolution in the Universe . ... Developments in General Relativity: Black Hole Singularity and Beyond . ... The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays and Neutrinos . ... Theoretical Aspects of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Origin and Propagation . ...

... Print Mixed messages with work in progress about the universe Simon Grose DISRUPTIVE alternative views that anger a current orthodoxy, leave their proponents ostracised and intrigue the masses are part and parcel of science. ... Another correct alternative theory earned Western Australia's Barry Marshall and Robin Warren a Nobel Prize in 2005. ... Scepticism about global warming being caused by our fossil-fuelled emissions is headed the same way, but it's a journey yet to be completed. ...

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... Astrophysics Group . ... Optical Interferometry . OIFITS: A Data Exchange Standard for Optical (Visible/IR) Interferometry . ... OIFITS is a standard for exchanging calibrated, time-averaged data from astronomical optical interferometers , based on the FITS Standard (OIFITS is a registered FITS convention ). ... The OIFITS standard is used in the biennial optical interferometry Imaging Beauty Contests: . ... A data exchange standard for optical (visible/IR) interferometry. ...

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