ATM Forum Message . ... Post . ... A.S.I.G.N. Observatory . ... Post Message | ... Posted by Barry on March 4, 2007 12:37:34 UTC . ... I have also had a professional re-design on the website, so now it looks better and is NOT located at the old barry's home-made observatory (iinet.net) link. It has been re-named A.S.I.G.N Observatory. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... The last quarter has seen Site Services continuing the installation of irrigation systems and new landscaping at the Visitor's Centre. ... The October 2000 term has been an interesting one in terms of operations at Parkes. ... The GPS systems at the Observatory are being upgraded to ensure the best possible long-term time reference is available for timing projects such as this. ... The influx of visitor interest was smoothly handled in the enlarged visitors centre, completed in August 2000. ...

Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... Science Instrument Downselect . ... Page History | ... PmWiki . ... PmWiki FAQ . ... pmwiki.org . ... Return to Science Instrument Downselect ( Edit ) . ... Proc. SPIE paper on downselect . ... March 09, 2007, at 05:30 PM by John Young - Status from 2006/10/12 update (see attachment) . ... Complete . ... P4S combiner optimization . ... P4S switchyard optimization . ... P8 combiner optimization . ... P8 (internal) switchyard optimization . ... Due 2006/07/31 . ... Due Date . ...

... On the coude focus of 1-m (Zeiss-1000) telescope have installed two echelle spectrometers: CEGS and HELEN. Both spectrometers have been designed by Musaev F.A. and oriented for spectroscopy of relatively bright stars with different spectral resolution. ... spectral resolution R~40000, range 3200 - 10100 Angstroms - registered simultaneously with 1242x1152 CCD (see example of CCD image of Solar spectrum, obtained with 1252x1152 CCD - about 100 spectral orders are seen (151Kb jpeg file ). ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication SSRT - Siberian Solar Radio Telescope . ...

Home About Meade Product Information Dealer Locator Customer Support Investor Relations Dealer Support Employment Opportunities Site Map . Meade Instruments Corp. ... Software Downloads . ... Envisage Version 7.09 (released 9/9/10) . Envisage Version 7.09 is Meade's DSI camera control software. This latest version fixes several bugs with the previous 7.08x software and continues to support the DSI line of cameras on the following platform: . ... Copyright 2008 Meade Instruments Corp., ...

... ISO main characteristics, and its data · What is Superspectra project?: ... 2) Provide mean spectra with extremely high S/N ratio for those sources for which there are repeated SWS01 / LWS01 measurements in IDA : (S/N) superspectra (S/N) individual spectrum WHAT IS DONE 1) Inventory SWS01 repeated: - IDA ( iso .esac.esa.int ) - AVO software (www.euro-vo.org) - SIMBAD (simbad.u-strasbg.fr), EXCEL - Sloan's SWS01 catalogue (HPDP from IDA ) RESULTS: - 161 sources (~ 3% total ISO ...

The 24-inch (0.6-meter) Ritchie-Chretien research telescope was manufactured by RC Optical Systems and installed in August 2006. ... Spacers are used to put the camera or other instruments at the proper position, and an encoded focus motor moves the focal plane 5 microns per encoder count. ... The telescope uses an Apogee U16M CCD camera with a 4096x4096 array of 9 micron pixels which oversample the seeing and permit very accurate photometry and imaging over a wide dynamic range. ...

System of astrometric databases of Pulkovo observatory. 26-inch refractor . Pulkovo system of astrometric databases consists of three databases, which contain results of processing photographic and CCD observations, obtained with the 26-inch refractor and the Normal astrograph of Pulkovo observatory. Pulkovo photographic catalogs: Pul-2, Pul-3 (Pul-3 SE), Pul ERS . Results of photographic and CCD observations of Solar system objects . ... Normal Astrograph ...

Next: CONICA: The high resolution Up: VLT Status and Instruments Previous: VLT First Light . ... Infrared instruments for the VLT . Instrument Summary . ... The already approved infrared instruments for the VLT are: . ... CONICA: Coude Near Infrared Camera (P.I. R. Lenzen, MPIA, Heidelberg) - an historical name as this instrument will be used for diffraction limited 1-5 m imaging, polarimetry and spectroscopy with the NAOS, Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System on UT1 (P.I. G. Rousset, ONERA ). ...

This Directory contains mean hour values of geomagnetic field components at observatories in Russia and other repub- lic of Former Soviet Union (FSU). The List of these observatories has indication of Data Years. ... Files are prepared in the DOS format. The Format for mean values follows after this list of the geomagnetic observatories. ... 21-116 24I4 24 4-digit hourly mean values for the day. ... If any of the hourly mean values for the day are missing 9999 will appear as the daily mean. ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... solar system . ... Year of Pluto . ... The Solar Dynamics Observatory completes third year eyeing the Sun . ... One of the highlights of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) during its third year in space: observations of Venus' transit across the Sun. ... Therefore, SDO's third year brought two research communities together: comet researchers who can use solar observations and solar scientists who can use comet observations to study the Sun. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...