XmTel is intended for interactive remote telescope operation. ... The command set provides for several basic functions that enable slewing, pointing, fine guiding, and control of the telescope focus, reticle, and fans. ... XmTel is actively being used and developed with the Celestron Corrected Dall-Kirkham C20 telescope. ... Some NexStar features of the C20 -- the fan, temperature reading, and focus control -- are not presently available on other Celestron telescopes. ...

Next: Introduction Up: Detectors Previous: Detectors . ... Section describes the ideas behind the relative calibration of 2--dimensional photometric CCD--images. Section gives a description of the steps required to perform a relative calibration of the CCD and discusses the various MIDAS commands that are available to perform the required operations. ... In order to proceed to calibrate the images in terms of magnitudes requires further steps not detailed here. ... Removing Irrelevant Columns . ...

... Required qualifications: BS in Electronics Engineering. ... Required qualifications: BS in Electronics Engineering or Electronics Technology field with three to five years experience in operation, calibration and maintenance of high-voltage equipment or equivalent combination. Supervisory experience required. ... Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, with more than five but less than seven years experience or equivalent combination. ...

Efficient use of the WFPC2 requires an understanding of the overhead times of the instrument. ... The start of an alignment requires 1 minute overhead in order to synchronize timing with a major frame (all commands to the instrument take place on major frames which last 1 minute). ... If scans are being performed, another minute of overhead is required and, if images are requested in real-time, another 2 minutes must be added to the alignment end. ... The readout time for an exposure is one minute. ...

... CentralProcessor 0.11 documentation . ... The Central Processor Manager is the local monitoring and control agent for the Central Processor sub-system. ... At the moment the Central Processor Manager only controls the acquisition phase; that is, it only controls the ingest pipeline. ... In addition to the CP manager specific parameters, any parameters that begin with ice_properties are passed directly to the ICE Communicator during initialisation. ... string . ... Central Processor Manager . ...

DEVCON for LAN Systems!! ... PSP LAN Systems develops products that provide network operating system services (such as file, print, transaction, security and directory) for multiple operating systems (OS/2, DOS, Windows and AIX). ... PSP LAN Systems has identified an API (or development tools) strategy that provides an application development environment with industry standard APIs for application portability and object frameworks to assist developers with code reuse. ...

Next: In case of trouble Up: Using Previous: What to do next? ... procedures are called from within the IDL environment. This is done from either the IDL command line by typing in the appropriate commands, or by invoking a widget, which provides buttons to click on for specific action. ... Note that widget buttons which bring up another widget are labeled in all caps, whereas the other type either displays a sub-menu (indicated by the arrow) or executes a procedure upon selection. ...

... The oaer is used for various maintenance activities on the site. ... Only persons approved by the Site Operations Manage will be authorized to operate forklifts. Once trained, authorized personnel will be issued a key. ... If required for specific activities, training shall be provided by a joint agreement between the APO Site Safety Officer and NSO/SP. Overall training requirements will be the responsibility of APO and will be coordinated through the APO Site Safety Officer. ...

... Feger T. How to connect up to 16 GLD 20-24 Mini motor control stages to a PC by using a Ethernet Terminal Server (LANtronix) 1. ... To use this software in combination with the terminal server, a virtual COM port must be created. ... Control a stepper motor: To control an stepper motor, set the generated virtual COM port on "Port" and select the corresponding axis on "Axes" in the IPCOMM software. ... Select the first generated COM port and the corresponding axis ID, then start the control panel. ...

... STScI previously used Microsoft Word and Microsoft Access, a Sybase ODBC driver, and the Adobe Acrobat PDF writer, along with a substantial amount of Visual Basic, to generate a variety of documents for the internal Space Telescope Grants Administration System (STGMS). ... To create a document, the internal STGMS application invoked a VB program which launched Microsoft Word and Microsoft Access, Access extracted the required data from a Sybase database using ODBC into an Access table. ...

LAUNCHING . Rocket-Space Complex N1-L3 being . ... As a result of high-frequency vibrations in the engine №2 gas generator, a pressure reducing connector behind a turbine broke off and leakage of components occurred that caused a fire in the aft compartment and violated the engine control system operation that commanded to shut down engines at 68.7s. Despite the accident, this launch has proved the validity of the dynamic profile, launch dynamics, LV control processes using the ...

GiST home | Introduction | ... GiST is a height-balanced tree structure with tree nodes containing (p, ptr) pairs, where p is a predicate ( attribute ),which is used as a search key, and ptr is the pointer to data for a leaf node or a pointer to another tree node for a non-leaf node. ... Every node contains between min and max index entries unless it is the root . ... For each index entry (p, ptr) in a non-leaf node, p is true when instantiated with the values of any tuple reachable from ptr . ...

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The distribution of SAS 6.1.0 is built on Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar or Darwin 6.8) but can be used without change on Mac OS X 10.3.X (Panther or Darwin 7.X.0). ... sh/ bash: . export SAS_DIR=/top_dir/xmmsas_20041122_1832 . ... export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$SAS_DIR/libextra:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH . csh/tcsh : . ... Unfortunately this library can not be used on Mac OS X 10.3.X. Then, if you install SAS 6.1.0 on a Mac OS X 10.2 system, you do not need any additional installation of the Qt/X11 software. ...

This module provides for loading of executable code and modules into the server at start-up or restart time. ... On Windows, mod_dll was used in beta release 1.3b1 through 1.3b5. mod_so combines these two modules into a single module for all operating systems. ... Because Apache for Windows does not have the Configure program of Apache for Unix, the module's source file must be added to the ApacheCore project file, and its symbols must be added to the os\win32\modules.c file. ... Module: mod_so . ...

A brief introduction to the XPA messaging system, which provides seamless communication between all kinds of Unix event-driven programs, including X programs, Tcl/Tk programs, and Perl programs. ... A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with other client programs (and users). ... An XPA name server program, xpans, through which XPA access point names are registered by servers and distributed to clients. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... spectrum . ... sfit . ... Briefly, these refer to the type of spectrum to be computed, the method of calculation of the source function, the number of anges if specific intensities are to be computed, the choice of continuous opacity subroutine library, the broadening data for HeI lines and the approximation ito be used for untabulated diffuse HeI lines. ... Refer to the SPECTRUM documentation for more information. spc_nsource <nsource> : Switch for method used to compute source function (def: 3) . ...

Next: Using Ceilidh as a Student Up: Ceilidh - On Line C Tutoring System Previous: Why Use CEILIDH ? Ceilidh is an on-line coursework administration and auto-marking facility designed to help both students and staff with programming courses. ... It also marks programs directly, and informs the student and teacher of the mark awarded. ... Ceilidh also provides students with on-line access to notes, examples and solutions, and provides tutors with extensive course monitoring and tracking facilities. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Rockets . ... New Shepard taking off (image credit: Blue Origin) . ... This is a reusable, vertical takeoff, vertical landing two-part suborbital space vehicle. The two sections of New Shepard are a pressurised crew module or capsule for six passengers (with its own launch escape system) and a propulsion module (or booster rocket) propelled by a Blue Origin BE-3 liquid propellant rocket motor. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...