... Bus Hound may be the very first product of its kind -- a software bus analyzer for capturing device I/O and protocol. ... When the capture buffer fills to capacity, Bus Hound can be configured to stop the capture process or continue capturing, keeping the most recent acquired data. ... IDE : Bus Hound captures command and data transfers for ATA and ATAPI devices. ... B us Hound captures I/O using a device driver. ... The below figure demonstrates how Bus Hound captures data for SCSI devices. ...

... 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. ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

FGS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Fine Guidance Sensor Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... 1.2 Instrument Handbook Layout . 1.3 The FGS as a Science Instrument . ... 1.4.4 FGS1r and the AMA . ... 1.4.6 Modes of Operation . ... Chapter 2: FGS Instrument Design . ... 3.2 Position Mode: Precision Astrometry . 3.3 Transfer Mode: Binary Stars and Extended Objects . ... 3.3.2 Transfer Mode Performance . ... 5.3 Linking Transfer and Position Mode Observations . ... 7.3.1 Position Mode . ...

... The SIRTF Science Center is developing two Web-based tools that will be used during operations. One tool is for Quality Analysis. ... The basic design requirements for the QA tool are (1) that it provide an easy way of looking at all the data, observation by observation, and (2) that it provide an easy way to specify status and comments for each observation. ... The data accessed by this tool consists of meta-data in the central database as well as the actual data files in the archive. ...

Instructions for using Menu-driven Axis Control Software . ... Altitude and azimuth axes use position feedback and the setting is in counts per second times 10. ... Use b to set the brakes and use c to clear the brakes for the corresponding axis, either azimuth or altitude. ... Use m to move to the previously specified position and velocity for the corresponding axis; either azimuth or altitude. ... Use g to move to the previously specified position and velocity for both the azimuth and altitude axis. ...

European Southern Observatory La Silla Paranal Observatory HARPS Secondary Guiding 1 Poster 7739-171 2 Gerardo Ihle1, Ismo Kastinen1, Gaspare Lo Curto1, Alex Segovia1, Peter Sinclaire1, Raffaele Tomelleri gihle@eso.org, 1glocurto@eso.org, 2r.tomelleri@tomelleri.com Introduction HARPS, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher at the ESO La Silla 3.6m telescope, is dedicated to the discovery of exosolar planets and high resolution spectroscopy. ... Fig. 5a Details Fig. 5 Tip Tilt table. ...

... It also sends commands to the trolley micro to switch between track mode and slew mode. ... Laser head (7702) Linear interferometer (7002) Retroreflector(7003) Various mirrors Beam expanders Fibre optic pickup Measurement board(2002) Datum switch(Sony SETP151) A schematic layout is shown below in Fig 1 Optical fibres connect the receiver to the measurement board and from the laser to the reference input on the measurement board. ... Reset the datum latch circuit. ...

XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based telescope control program based on INDI, the Instrument-Neutral Distributed Interface. ... See the files LICENSE and COPYRIGHT for the details. ... About Epoch ----------- XmTel assumes that the telescope is set to "Epoch of Date", which means that it is using ideal celestial coordinates precisely aligned today. ... XmTel assumes that target coordinates entered from the keyboard are in the Epoch that the telescope coordinates are currently displayed in. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 omthconv July 2, 2008 Abstract Converts OM tracking-history data into tracking-star count-rates time series 1 Instruments/Modes Instrument Mode OM TRACKING 2 Use pipeline processing yes interactive analysis yes 3 Description In order to perform accurate tracking throughout an exposure, software onboard the Optical Monitor(OM) selects n (up to 10) guide stars visible within the FOV and monitors their position and counts during the exposure. ...

... 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 . ...

At Arecibo we have a variety of optical instruments that we use to study terrestrial airglow emissions. ... As a complement to the airglow instrumentation we also maintain a set of optical instruments, called lidars, used for "active" remote sensing of the atmosphere. That is, we generate our own source signal using lasers and measure the characteristics of the light scattered back from the atmosphere. ... An operations manual for the Optical Laboratories is currently under major revision. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

Next: THE SCHED INPUT FILES Up: INFORMATION AND ADVICE ON Previous: Configuration Studies Contents . ... The NAIF software package from JPL is called to read the spice files and calculate positions. The NAIF software significantly increases the size of a SCHED distribution, and the satellite tracking capability is unlikely to be needed outside the AOC. ... To use the tracking capability, a Satellite Initialization section needs to be included in the main input file. ...

The drawing presented in Figure 6 suggests a cryo-mechanical design based on a cylindrical vacuum shell, with total size dictated by total length of the optical system and wheels diameter. ... internal support structure for cold optics and detector; . cold optics, focal masks and filter wheels; . ... The detector, in thermal contact with the cold plate, will have an active temperature control, with an RDT sensor and a heater, both connected to an independent temperature controller. ...

Cameras for TDI Applications Princeton Instruments offers several rectangular format cameras that are ideal for TDI applications, which require high resolution in one direction only. This allows for a lower cost system with the same high dynamic range and performance of square format imaging arrays. ... TDI Applications Imaging of conveyor belts is a common industrial application of TDI. ... Many non-destructive inspection applications require economical high resolution Xray imaging. ...

... to_tsvector( [ configuration , ] document TEXT) RETURNS TSVECTOR . Parses a document into tokens, reduces the tokens to lexemes, and returns a tsvector which lists the lexemes together with their positions in the document in lexicographic order. strip( vector TSVECTOR) RETURNS TSVECTOR . ... Returns the number of lexemes stored in the vector. text ::TSVECTOR RETURNS TSVECTOR . ... The text should be formatted like the vector would be printed by the output of a SELECT . ... Query Operations ...

Next: The Focal Plane Instruments Up: No Title Previous: The X-ray Optics . CXO has two focal plane instruments - the High-Resolution Camera (HRC) and the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). Each of these instruments, in turn, has two detectors, one optimized for direct imaging of x rays that pass through the optics and the other optimized for imaging x rays that are dispersed by the objective transmission gratings when the latter are commanded into place directly behind the HRMA. ...

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. ...

... Satellite data ] . ... SMIS IKI RAN has developed the software package which may be used both by owners of acquisition stations and individual users of satellite information. ... AVHRR instrument data processing. ... This enables the users who are not yet qualified in computer methods of satellite data processing, to get a quick start with the software. ... The basic software package enables a user to solve a wide range of tasks (in our server You can find the data processing samples ). ...