... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...

The VLTI Calibrator Selector Tool is a tool intended to assist in the selection of suitable interferometric calibrators for VLTI observations with MIDI and AMBER. It uses a model of the VLTI and its instruments to assess the fringe visibility, given the observed bandpass, the geometry, spectrum, and coordinates of the target and the time at which the observations are to be made. ... The tool offers an HTML/Java based interface and consists of two pages. ... The quality flag depends on LDD_chi2. ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... Last Update August 22, 2005 . Listed Since August 31, 2001 . ... Novosibirsk, ZZ 630049 . ... Web Site . ... Web . www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... Visitor Center . ... Optical . Lidar . At Arecibo we have a variety of optical instruments that we use to study terrestrial airglow emissions. ... This equipment is located in our Optical Laboratory, which is on site about 1000 feet from the center of the incoherent scatter radar. ... The various observational modes that are available are described in supplementary documentation for the Arecibo Observatory Optical Laboratories. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

Static Fourier spectrometers are often used for spectral measurements of the ionosphere emissions. There are two main advantages of Fourier spectrometers (FS) - large geometric factor and high spectral resolution; these parameters are two orders better than for grating spectral instruments. ... In scanning Fourier spectrometer optical and electric modulation of signal is used to avoid this problem, for static Fourier spectrometer there are no such ways. ...

We report first results of a multifrequency campaign from radio to hard X-ray energies of the prominent gamma-ray blazar 3C 279 during the first year of the INTEGRAL mission. The variable blazar was found at a low activity level, but was detected by all participating instruments. Subsequently a multifrequency spectrum could be compiled. ... In addition, this 2003 broadband spectrum is compared to one measured in 1999 during a high activity period of 3C 279. | ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Upflows at the edges of active regions - called AR outflows , are studied using multi-instrument observations. ... The evolution of the photospheric magnetic field associated with the footpoints of the upflow region and the plasma properties of active region upflows are investigated aiming at providing such information for benchmarking data-driven modelling of this solar feature that is presented in Galsgaard et al. ...

My CV (pdf) . Integral-field (3D) spectroscopy on the SAO RAS 6-m telescope: instruments, observations, data reduction and analysis. ... Kinematics of stars and ionized gas in Seyfert and non-active galaxies. Non-circular motions in spiral and barred galaxies (bars, spirals, collicional rings, mergers). ... Blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies. Polar-ring galaxies . ... Ph.D. Thesis "Morphology and kinematics of stars and gas in barred galaxies": . ... PDF (compact, 1 em, 214 pages) . ...

Distributed Software for Observations in Near Infrared V. Gavryusev 1 and C. Baffa Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri E. Giani Dipartamento di Astronomia, Universit`a di Firenze Abstract. ... The processes denoted for control of hardware (telescope and other instruments) should be executed currently on PC dedicated for this task under DESQview/X, while all other components (user interface, tools for the data analysis, etc.) can work also under Unix. ... 1993, Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ...

Presentations at the Astro-Statistics Seminar, Stat 310, taught by Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard). ... Aneta Siemiginowska, CfA . 21 Sep 2004 . Astronomy in the Age of Space: An Overview [.pdf] This is a broad overview of astronomy as an introduction to Astrostatistics. ... We concentrate on problems related to high energy astrophysics and consider the data obtained by modern X-ray space telescopes such as Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton. ... 05 Oct 2004 . ... 09 Nov 2004 . ... 22 Feb 2005 . ...

... 24-Sep-14 JOURNиES 2014 Investigation · checking possibility of nutation rates estimation based on RLG observations simulation level · combination of simulated RLG data with real VLBI data · comparison of estimates based on real RLG data (Wettzell) with results of simulation 24-Sep-14 JOURNиES 2014 Simulation ... 10-8) 24-Sep-14 JOURNиES 2014 Simulated data + VLBI (ac. lev. ...

Mid-Infrared All Sky Cloud Camera . ... These documents are provided to give users the information needed regarding instrument design, performance and operation to plan and carry out observations. While every effort is made to keep information on this site current, instrument performance does vary continuously with time and environmental conditions. ... Comments and suggestions are always welcome! Return to the APO Home Page . April 3, 2000 - Jon Brinkmann (brinkmann/nmsu.edu) ...

... 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. ...

We present the results of our observations of the white-light corona in polarized light performed at Criciuma eclipse, Brazil. During the observation of 3.11.94 we have made five couple of pictures of the solar corona in polarization light. ... Koutchmy S., Molodensky M., Starkova L., Ershov A., Matsuura O .: ... Molodensky M., Starkova L., Koutchmy S., Ershov A .: ... Koutchmy S., Molodensky M.M., Starkova L.I . ... Koutchmy S., Molodensky M.M., Starkova L.I. Koutvitsky V. and Ershov A . ...

... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . Dept. for Space Plasma Physics . ... Solar telescopes . ... 2016,MNRAS, 2016MNRAS.tmp.. ... 2016,MNRAS, Vol.455 ,is.1,p.357-369. ... 2016,MNRAS, Vol.456 ,is.1,p.181-191. ... WASP- 22, WASP-41, WASP- 42 and WASP- 55. ... 2016,MNRAS, Vol.456 ,Is.1,p.990-1002. ... Observations . ... In 2002 regulary observations of comets with using of CCD camera S1C started at Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory, near Zhytomyr. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...