... These maps allow you to drive the telescope in RA or Dec while stepping in Dec or RA, repsectively. ... RA (Dec) Offset & Strip Time: These parameters not only define the size of your map in the RA (Dec) direction, in arcmins, but also, when combined with the strip time, set the drive rate on the sky. ... Dec (RA) Offset & Dec (RA) Step: These options set the map size in the Dec (RA) direction to be 2 X (Dec offset) (or 2 X (RA offset) if you are driving the telescope in the declination direction). ...

... They include: 4 dither patterns, 4 chop patterns, and 3 dither-chop patterns. For each of these, the observer will be able to specify, during the Phase II Proposal submission, the total number of positions desired (2 to 40), the dither size (0 to 40 arcsecs), the chop size (0 to 1800 arcsecs), and the orientation of the pattern on the sky. ... In addition, the figure number where the pattern is graphically shown is given in column 5 of Table 10.1 . ... Figure 10.3 . ... 0.0 - 1800.0 . ...

... Maximum data output rate = 6.4 Mbyte/s. Output data files in PSRFITS format. ... spd: sel pp11 - pulsar phase vs amplitude . ... John Sarkissian starts the web-page checklist and writes report providing information on the last observing session and data processing. ... He produces a text file containing the processing commands required: /psr1/jms/processed.txt John Sarkissian copies the raw data files (DFB/WBC) from Lagavulin to Epping. > cd /data/LAGAVULIN_4/pulsar > cd DFB > rsync -av . ... Group ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Next: Quadrant DC Offset Removal in NICMOS Images Using an Eye-pleasing Criterion . ... This paper describes a simple imaging model which allows the limits of dithered imaging to be readily appreciated and briefly reviews available software. ... Dithered imaging can improve this sampling. ... ACOADD was originally developed for combining images with different PSFs but can also be used, with shifted PSFs and sub-sampled output images, for combining dithered under-sampled images. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Section 3: File Menu . ... Displays the dialog to open an existing image: . ... Saves the current image as a new file name or new file type, or both. ... This can be useful to prevent having 20 or more images open at once, and saves having to close them manually. ... This is done by creating a text file with the same name as the image file. ... Note that Image Information is saved within the FITS file, so there will not be a text file to accompany these files. ...

User catalogs allow you enter positions for your objects into a file, to save time during an observing run. ... Before diving into the details, here is an example: # default coordinate system and object # (these are the standard defaults, so if you like them you can omit this line) CSys=FK5; Date =2000; RotType= Object ; RotAng=0 # some random objects # Name Pos1 (e.g. RA) Pos2 (e.g. Dec) Options in keyword-value format NGC6543 rot 90 ... Object Data . Defaults . Catalog Options . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Archive of the ESO Enews > ESO-Enews #19: September 2011 . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Call for Proposals for Period 89 . ... The Call for Proposals for observations at ESO telescopes during Period 89 (1 April - 30 September 2012) has been released. ... For more information about archive services or to subscribe to the archive RSS feed to stay informed on the latest archive developments, please visit http://archive.eso.org/ . ...

... Home Observing North South Lake, Haines Falls, NY . ... North South Lake, Haines Falls, NY . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association has an agreement with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation that allows us to have observing sessions at North-South Lake , located in Haines Falls, New York, in the Catskill Mountains.€аThis is an exceptionally dark location for deep-sky observing. ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

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 . ...

... The choice of the spectrograph design (Fig.2) is determined by the quantity R, the overall dimensions of the PF cage and the restrictions on the rigidity of the structure of the device. ... As the camera's objective a fast 4-lens aplanat is used having a focal distance F cam =140 mm and a relative aperture of 1:1.8, the resolution at the centre is no less than 80 gr/mm, that over the field at a distance of 3 mm from the edge along the frame ( ) diagonal is 35 gr/mm. ...

fitshdr_edit - FITS-file headers interactive editor fitshdr_edit [options] FITSfile_name . fitshdr_edit utility allows to modify FITS headers' lines interactively (FITS MultiExtentionsFiles included). fitshdr_edit is just simple shell script around fitshdr utility. ... It means, that You can't remove line from header! ... 560:CRDELT2 = 21.0 / this is example 640: 720:HISTORY header No.0: 1st history line 123456789012345678901234567 880:COMMENT Sat Sep 25 21:17:34 CEST 2004 / by fitshdr_edit . ...

The NTP Version 3 daemon currently supports several different radio, satellite and modem reference clocks plus a special pseudo-clock used for backup or when no other clock source is available. Detailed descriptions of individual device drivers and options can be found in the Reference Clock Drivers page. Additional information can be found in the pages referenced there, including the Debugging Hints for Reference Clock Drivers and How To Write a Reference Clock Driver pages. ...

... NICS will be the only infrared instrument for the first light of the TNG; as a consequence, we decided to incorporate a sufficient degree of operation flexibility by providing the instrument with six different observing modes, three aimed at imaging and three at spectroscopy: . ... It will be possible to use the narrow band filters as order sorters; this will allow to perform high resolution long-slit spectroscopy in the wavelength ranges covered by the available narrow band filters. ...

RadioAstron AO-1 prop osal Submission dead line: February 8, 23:59 UT. ... Team contact name and e-mail address: Ivan Petrov (e-mail: Ivan.Peterov@gmail.com ) Total observing time request: 100 hrs Number of independent observing segments and typical range of pro jected baselines required: 20 (3-30 Earth diameters) Specific dates and time intervals requested : If your experiment requires specific dates and UT ranges, please, indicate them: February 1, 2014: 08:00-16:00 UT -- M87 imaging ...

grdgradient - Compute directional derivative or gradient from 2-D grd file representing z(x,y) grdgradient in _ grdfile -G out _ grdfile [ -A azim [/ azim2 ] ] [ -D [ c ][ o ][ n ] ] [ -L flag ] [ -M ] [ -N [ e ][ t ][ amp ][/ sigma [/ offset ]] ] [ -S slopefile ] [ -V ] grdgradient may be used to compute the directional derivative in a given direction ( -A ), or the direction ( -S ) [and the magnitude ( -D )] of the vector gradient of the data. ... If amp is not given, default amp = 1. ...

... Mp3Mixer Mode . LiveIce configuration can either be set using configuration files or by setting command line parameters at runtime. The LiveIce binary has a series of reasonable default options set in the binary - in particular liveice.h has a #define which can be used to set the default encoder. ... Server Options . ... Note that some encoders can't do less thatn 32kHz andsome will change your format to something else if the ideal format for a given bitrate is of a lower quality. ...

... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... In the standard row-by-row option, the dispersion coefficients are kept in the table ( coerbr.tbl ). The rebinning to constant step in wavelength is accomplished, row by row, with the command REBIN/LONG . ... Data resampling љ can be avoided by the command APPLY/DISPERSION which generates a table with the columns :WAVE and :FLUX , each row corresponding to the central wavelength and flux of a CCD detector pixel. ...