... 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. ...

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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. ...

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The Linear Ramp Filters (LRFs) provide a narrow band ( ) imaging capability which is continuously tunable from 3710е to 9762е. These are essentially a collection of narrow band interference filters whose central wavelength varies with position on the filter glass. ... If it is necessary to know which CCD will be used, observers can consult Table 3.7 or Table 3.8 , or use the on-line LRF calculator tool on the WFPC2 WWW pages. ... See Linear Ramp Filters for further details on LRFs.) ...

... Right: The telescope's octagonal "dome" enclosure. ... MT KENT OBSERVATORY (longitude 1510 51' 19.5 E, latitude 270 S 47' 52.3 , elevation 682 m) Louisville Telescope ( Robotic astronomy research) · 50cm f/6.8 astrograph Celestron C-20 (new product) Supplier : www.celestron.com · 3.5m Sirius fibreglass dome Supplier : siriusobservatories.com · SBIG STL-6303 CCD camera + LRGB filters (UBVRI planned) Supplier : www.sbig.com · Vantage Pro weather station ...

... WinTICS-24 Version 2.0 is a telescope control system interface and observing assistant, that provides the ability to control a telescope and guide-acquire module, along with a suite of utilities to assist observers. ... WinTICS is an evolution TICS-24, an integrated telescope control system (TCS) written by Hawkins & Ratcliff (1993) for the Macintosh in HyperCard. ... On the right side of the main WinTICS window are controls for movement and initialization of the telescope. ...

... ALMA . ... ARC Staff at ESO . ... The European ALMA Regional Centre (ARC) provides the interface between the ALMA project and the European science community. ... Below you can read the latest Announcements from the European ARC Network.. ... The call for 1-mm Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) proposals to use phased ALMA at Band 6 in Cycle 4, in collaboration with the Event Horizon Telescope Consortium (EHTC), will be released to coincide with the ALMA Cycle 4 Call for Proposals in March 2016...

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To leave the frames behind, click here . 430-MHz Gregorian . ... RFI Situation . ... Receiver History . ... 422-442 MHz . ... For the current frequency v time 430-MHz RFI plot from the Arecibo "hill-top" monitoring system, click here . For the current frequency v time 430-MHz RFI plot (with band-pass correction) from the Arecibo "hill-top" monitoring system, click here . For the current daily rms/mean v frequency 430-MHz RFI plot from the Arecibo "hill-top" monitoring system, click here . ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Receiving systems . The SSRT has two independent receiving systems for recording solar observational data, and several ancillary receivers for checking, setting up and adjusting the instrument. The base receiving systen is a multichannel filter receiver for a simultaneous recording in 180 channels with the 500 kHz band each, adjusted at steps of about 600 kHz. ... Channel's band . ...

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Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... Star Name: . ... During observations of a field in Perseus, we discovered a transient event. ... A total of 5 images with 5-minute exposures were obtained on JD 2455538. ... The combined image is shown under the light curve (top right panel). ... At the transient's position, an extremely faint star-like image is visible, marked as "Var"; its magnitude is approximately 13 m . ... Light Curve . The light curve of the transient and four images of the region around it. ...

... Like the Lynxx and the ST-4, this camera has a preferred orientation with the telescope (see figure 4). ... Before taking images, the camera and the telescope have to be calibrated. ... This is the normal CCD camera image mode. The second method is the track and accumulate mode. In this mode, the camera takes several short images, and then adds them together to give an image that is comparable to the same total time image as taken by the grab function. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

MSSSO Annual Report 1997 . ... The Duffield Heliostat was designed and constructed for the Stromlo Exploratory, and forms the central feature within the building. It produces a stationary, high-quality image of the sun, which is one of the major exhibits in the Exploratory, and was installed in time for the opening ceremony on July 26, 1997(Fig. ... The tracker module of the Heliostat is located at the top of the pier in the central area of the building, under a roll-off roof. ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... EPOS Software Package . ... EPOS ( E phemeris P rogram for O bjects of the S olar system) is the Windows PC application for study and ephemeris support of observations of the Solar system objects. ... It controls the part of common data and transfers the control to one of the programs that solve the restricted set of tasks. ... So with the EPOS software package one can calculate the accurate ephemerides for many objects and get the quick illustration of their motion as well. ...

NGC 5128! The supernova in the NGC 5128 galaxy was seen using a 1m telescope from the Sutherland Observatory in South Africa on 21st March 2016, but only using a H-Alpha filter. ... Supernova observed through H-Alpha Filter from Sutherland Observatory ! After receiving the images from the telescope via Las Cumbres Observatory, we then used Starlink Gaia to manipulate the images by changing contrast levels and the colour map in order to achieve the clearest possible results of the supernova. ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

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