... Public . Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... La Silla Paranal Observatory . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Publications with ESO Data . ... Large Programmes . ... Phase 1 Proposals . ... Telescope time for ESO telescopes on Paranal and La Silla is allocated twice a year in periods of 6 months. ... All information concerning service mode observing programmes are available via the page page " Service Observing Information " and links therein. ...

HST Call for Proposals and HST Primer for Cycle 24 . ... 9.4.1 Joint HST-Chandra Observations . 9.4.2 Joint HST-Spitzer Observations . ... Proposers requesting joint HST-Chandra observations (see Section 3.5 ) must provide a full and comprehensive technical justification for the Chandra portion of their program. ... Proposers requesting joint HST-Chandra observations must specify whether they were awarded Chandra time in a previous Chandra or HST cycle for similar or related observations . ...

... Proposal Type: General Category: Observation Category: Time Requested this semester: Hours Next Semester: Hours already used for this pro ject: Additional Hours required to complete pro ject: Minimum Useful Time: Expected Data Storage: Prop osal Title: Regular Pulsars Galactic 9 6 19.75 0.5 hours less than 100 GB Further Follow-up of Millisecond Pulsars Discovered in the Arecibo 327 MHz Drift Scan Survey ABSTRACT: The Arecibo Observatory 327 MHz Drift Scan survey has discovered 46 new radio pulsars....

Duty astronomers at the Compact Array are rostered from ATNF staff and students to provide support to observers at Narrabri for periods of one week at a time. The duty astronomers are required to assist observers prepare observing schedules, help set up the Compact Array at the start of an observing run, diagnose and attempt to solve problems that arise in the course of the observations and help observers with the initial analysis of their data. ... www.atnf.csiro.au/observers/tidbinbilla . ...

MANASTASH RIDGE OBSERVATORY OBSERVING TIME REQUEST FORM - 2006 Submit requests to Chris Laws (laws@astro.washington.edu) by March 20 for April 1-May 31 observing time and by April 30 for June 1-August 31 observing time. Meritorious proposals received by these deadlines will be put on the MRO Observing schedule immediately. ... Observers must be trained in the MRO systems before their scheduled observing dates. Contact Chris Laws (laws@astro.washington.edu) to arrange training. ...

... In the context of the autonomous TAROT observatory we have developed an automatic scheduling software. ... With the advent of automatic telescopes and the use in service mode of large facilities, the problem of efficient night scheduling is becoming more important. ... However, we encountered some difficulties handling periodic or constrained requests with a large time interval, and it is unable to give to the telescope users and operators the visibility over the schedule. ...

Welcome to the XMM-Newton Helpdesk . ... General User Support XMM-Newton Helpdesk Users Group . ... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... Questions can be submitted to the XMM-Newton Helpdesk via two interfaces: . Helpdesk web interface . Email to xmmhelp@sciops.esa.int For both of the above submission methods the question, and later its answer, will always be visible via the web interface , unless the message is marked as PRIVATE (if via email, including the word PRIVATE in the subject). ...

The information path to prepare, perform and reduce a radioastronomical observation, using the Arcos correlator , is schematized in the figure: . The programs reside part on the computer network of the Arcetri Observatory, and part at the Medicina Radio Telescope . All programs running at Arcetri are written for a Sun workstation, and are public domain software, available upon request. Programs running at the telescope are written for a PC with DOS/Windows (or Linux).

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... mod_proxy extension for load balancing . ... Thus, in order to get the ability of load balancing, mod_proxy and mod_proxy_balancer have to be present in the server. ... Enabled via lbmethod=byrequests , the idea behind this scheduler is that we distribute the requests among the various workers to ensure that each gets their configured share of the number of requests. ... lbfactor is how much we expect this worker to work , or the workers's work quota . ... worker...

... ASRAS HOME . Radio Astronomy . ... About ASRAS . ... Our Observing Site . ... 2015 Mees Tour Guides . ... We're offering Regular Tours (a presentation on astronomy geared to a general audience, followed by a tour of the observatory and (hopefully!) observing of several objects, which may include the Moon, planets, nebulae, star clusters and perhaps galaxies), and Kids' Tours (a more interactive presentation specially aimed at youngsters plus the observatory tour and observing) as in prior years. ...

... 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. ...

... This telescope is also able to be used in a non-assisted manner. ... Upon availability, the use of the Club's 10" dobsonian mount telescope. Upon availability, the use of the Club's 16" Meade LightBridge telescope. ... Use of the Club's Coronado Personal Solar Telescope and Cemax Eyepieces. Use of the Club's Video Eyepieces. ... Use of Club Binoculars. ... It's all part of being here and just one of many telescopes that are the benefit of being a member of the Richland Astronomical Society. ...

... The Large Telescopes Program Committee of Russian AS . ... Executive Secretary, e-mail: request@sao.ru . Telescope RATAN-600 Time Request deadline: I half-year (Jan. ... Program title .. ... Principal investigator .. ... Request status .. ... Retarded applications and ones not conforming to form will not be accepted by the Committee. ... In some exceptional cases the Program Committee Secretary can accept a request after deadline with permission of the Chairman of Committee or director of SAO RAS. ...

Click here for more about this recent image from Shared Skies. Moore Observatory of the University of Louisville and Mt. Kent Observatory of the University of Southern Queensland support teaching and research by their students and faculty in programs in Astronomy, Physics, and Atmospheric Sciences. ... The wide field telescope in the roll roof and the CDK20 in the Sirius dome at Moore Observatory offer live real-time use to university students, and to secondary school teachers, on request. ...

Space VLBI Mission RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity -- 1 for the period July 2013 ­ 30 June 2014 Key Science Program ( KSP ) Final Notes Proposals Due: 8 February 2013, 23:59 UT 1 RadioAstron KSP meeting follow-up Based on the fruitful discussions, questions and suggestions from the RadioAstron Key Science program meeting in Bonn (December 3-4, 2012), we would like to emphasize the following specific aspects for the preparation of the AO-1 ...

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. ...

CCD Forum Message . ... Eyepieces ћ Meade ћ Misc. ... CCD Tips and Techniques | ... Opinions Requested . ... I am planning on getting back into astronomy (used to use an 8" newtownian 20 years ago). ... After reviewing many scopes and cameras the following are my planned scopes and equipment thus far. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... This document is also available in PDF format . The Armagh Observatory is a transparent and open organization and we publish a great deal of information about what we do on this website, which you can access by navigating through the website. In this part of our website we explain how you can get access to information of a personal nature which we may hold about you under the Data Protection Act and certain classes of information specified under the Freedom of Information Act. ...

. Grazing Incidence X-ray Reflectivity: Studies for the AXAF Observatory . X-Ray Reflectivity I: Reflectivity of Iridium Coatings . Density Measurements: Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy . AXAF Coating Process Selection Study: Reflectivity Measurements . Other Related Web Sites: . X-ray Interactions with Matter (Maintained by Eric Gullikson at LBL: atomic scattering factors, x-ray properties, calculate reflectivity, transmission, attenuation, etc. of X-rays) . Pat Slane's Home Page

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...