... B=Command, 12AB=Azm, comma, 4000=Alt. ... Example: if the desired position is 220°, then POSITION_24BIT = (220/360)*224 = 10,252,743 Separate POSITION_24BIT into three bytes such that (POSITION_24BIT = PosHigh*65536 + PosMed*256 + PosLow). Exampe: PosHigh = 156, PosMed = 113, PosLow = 199 Send the following 8 bytes: a. Azm Slow Goto: 80, 4, 16, 23, PosHigh, PosMed, PosLow, 0 b. Alt Slow Goto: 80, 4, 17, 23, PosHigh, PosMed, PosLow, 0 The number 35 is returned from the handcontrol 4. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Next: Third: Create a session Up: Starting up correlator control Previous: First: Log on to б  Contents . Both the correlator interface and the correlator spectra display program are run from lbaccc . ... lbaccc . ... A more complete explanation of SPD, including available commands, is found in Appendix C. Next: Third: Create a session Up: Starting up correlator control Previous: First: Log on to б  Contents . ...

... The pointing program (actually programs) is run on the pnt vme crate (motorola 167 boards). They are written in C for the vxWorks operating system. pntMProg.c - master pointing program. runs on the pnt cpu . ... It also sends the non time critical commands (doit it now stuff) tothe various devices. pntXForm.c - performs the pointing transformations (ra,dec to az,za) once a second. runs on pnt cpu . ... sends time the stamped az,za positions to the agcProg (on pntp1 cpu) once a second. ...

... The 2-meter telescope of the Ond ejov Observatory near Prague is a middle-class instrument fully devoted to high dispersion stellar spectroscopy. The data are produced by two acquisition systems of different generations. ... An easy access to both the raw and reduced data is provided by a simple WWW-based archiving system. ... Using it, more than 4000 stellar spectra were secured, giving with calibrations a total of 16600 frames until the end of the year 2000. ...

Slithead identification (which slithead is installed?) will be sensed and reported by the on-board spectrograph computer. ... Observer's software to handle spectrographic observations will be written by JHU and installed on the Fermilab supplied observatory workstation. ... UW will be responsible for the slithead latch-down control. ... Database computer at APO: The observer's software will query the observatory database for information on the currently installed fiber cartridge. ...

... Currently a 50MHz 486DX PCBrand personal computer, located on the fourth floor in the warm room in lab number 443C, is used to control the charge coupled devices (CCDs). ... The PC is connected to a monitor and keyboard in the warm room and another pair in the dome itself. ... An intercom system simplifies communication between the dome and the warm room. ... The second intercom in the dome is used for two way communication between the dome and the warm room. ...

MRO Delay Line Socket Initialisation Protocol for Delay Line Computers E. B. Seneta bodie@mrao.cam.ac.uk rev 1.0 13 October 2006 Cavendish Laboratory JJ Thomson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0HE UK Objective To describe the protocol by which network connections are to be made and broken between delay line computers. Scope This document describes how to make and break network connections for the purpose of sending and receiving delay line command, command data, status and telemetry messages. ...

. This is BTA "indome" main server computer tb.sao.ru . It is local address in SAO's Intranet. But it is visible from Internet through our Web-site proxy as: http://www.sao.ru/tb/ . BTA TSC online Web-pages located here: http://www.sao.ru/tb/tcs/ . BTA WebCameras: . "In-Dome" TV-camera . and it's last images . "Outdor" TV-camera . and it's last images . Also, one can find here some documents: .

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

... Two computers in the same network are usually linked via a single physical cable. When they communicate over the network, the programs in each computer that take part in the communication are linked via a virtual connection , a sort of imaginary cable. ... When it notices an incoming network login (i.e., it notices that it gets a new virtual connection to some other computer), it starts a new process to handle that single login. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... James H. Newman (Ph.D.) . NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... Recipient of the American Astronautical Society Flight Achievement Award (1994, 1999) for his work as a member of the STS-51 and STS-88 crews. ... That same year he came to work at NASA s Johnson Space Center, where his duties included responsibility for conducting flight crew and flight control team training for all mission phases in the areas of Orbiter propulsion, guidance, and control. ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

Press the "Reset DSPs" button in kermitui. ... Now try whatever you were doing again and it will probably be better. ... First, make sure the Kermit electronics ("Leach box") are turned on. ... If the LED is on but you're still getting this error message, try turning off the Leach box. ... If this does not fix the problem, let it sit turned off for ten seconds again, turn it on, then press the reset button to the left of the power switch on the Leach box. ... Just type leachd in some xterm. ...

Ground Support of RadioAstron . Control and Tracking Stations . RadioAstron satellite control (command transmission, telemetry, orbit measurements) will be conducted from Evpatoria and Bear Lake control stations. ... Coarse orbit measurements will be carried out from control stations. Each measurement takes ten minutes. ... Orbit measurements at tracking stations give only radial component of spacecraft velocity but the measurements are going continuously during observing sessions. ...

The aim of this section of the course is to enable you to use simple computer programs to solve a variety of common astronomical tasks. ... I have (somewhat arbitrarily) decided to use Python for this course, because it seems to be gaining popularity fast for astronomical data handling, and because some of you will have encountered it at the ATNF course. ... We've put Python (plus all relevant libraries) on the Stromlo Linux computers moron and maggot. ... Now log in to moron (or maggot). ...

. Computer Ephemeris. Lunar equatorial positions. Explanations. Each row contains at 0 h and 12 h of Time Dynamical Terrestrial: month, day, apparent right ascension (hours, minutes, seconds), apparent declination (degrees, minutes, seconds of arc) and geocentric distance (in Earth's radii).

... Piping in a C program: < stdio.h > . ... Pipes . ... We use fprintf() and fscanf() to communicate with the pipe's stream . ... plotter.c module */ /* contains routines to plot a data file produced by another program */ /* 2d data plotted in this version */ /**********************************************************************/ #include externals.h static FILE * plot1 , *plot2, *ashell; static char *startplot1 = plot [] [0:1.1]'plot11.dat' with lines, 'plot12.dat' with lines\n ; static ...

BUS MODULE . The bus module together with the unified propulsion module meets all the payload requirements, is of multi-purpose design and provides ample functional redundancy . On-board systems include all the systems needed to support the operation and monitoring of the payload equipment and the spacecraft as a whole: . ... Basic design option . ... Increased power design option . ... YAMAL-200 COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Fasti is an innovative design for infrared detector control. ... to use largely accepted standards as boundaries, as a PCI bus, a parallel interface or a serial, and to use few of them . ... The building blocks of Fasti are: . ... the serial bus for controlling housekeeping devices (temperature and pressure sensors or motor controllers) and programming data acquisition . ... Though not so fast, and lacking some forms of data integrity check, this bus is so widely used to be nearly unavoidable. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... 505 Connector Cable Set . Operating Instructions for use with the Meade? Autostar? ... The #505 Connector Cable Set provides access to three Autostar operations: . ... 2: #505 Connector Cable Set connects between two Autostar handboxes. (1) 3-foot cable. ... If you have a question concerning use of the #505 Connector Cable Set, call the Meade Instruments Customer Service Department at (949) 451-1450, or fax at (949) 451-1460. ... Autostar Downloads . ...