... The plots show the az,za and ra,dec positions of the telescope during the test (.ps) ( .pdf ): . Page 1: az,za positions during the test . ... A datafile is also included for each day giving the measured ao positions for each day (utcSec, ra,dec of date). 16aug09 plots of telescope postion(.ps) ( .pdf ). Datafile of telescope position . ... cal on/off samples averaged to 1 seconds (.ps) ( .pdf ) . ... The first set of plots shows the cal on/off samples averaged to 1 seconds (.ps) ( .pdf ): . ...

... After a brief leave in Bangalore to work on astronomy (and holiday in Nepal), Dave will be continuing in management positions within the ATNF. ... We have also hosted an observing project visit from a contingent of ATNF and CTIP vacation scholars, who observed h Carina with the new 12-mm system (see article elsewhere in this issue), observed new HIPASS galaxies, and studied interference from microwave ovens. ... Currently we are testing this system with a single antenna. ...

... 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. ...

... Reference ID: GPS, OMEGA, GOES . Driver ID: TRUETIME . ... This driver supports several models models of Kinemetrics/TrueTime timing receivers, including 468-DC MK III GOES Synchronized Clock, GPS- DC MK III and GPS/TM-TMD GPS Synchronized Clock, XL-DC (a 151-602-210, reported by the driver as a GPS/TM-TMD), GPS-800 TCU (an 805-957 with the RS232 Talker/Listener module), OM-DC OMEGA Syncrhonized Clock, and very likely others in the same model family that use the same timecode formats. ...

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. ...

Common names: EIA-449, RS-449, ISO 4902 . ... at the DTE) . at the DCE) . ... Control . ... A signal send from DCE to its DTE to indicate that it has received a basic carrier signal from a (remote) DCE. ... Timing signals used by the DTE for transmission, where the clock is originated by the DTE and the DCE is the slave. ... A control signal from the DTE to the DCE. ... A control signal from the DTE to the DCE that causes the analog transmision output to be connected to the analog receiver input. ...

... RS-232 Signals on an RJ11 Jack . ... 6-wire 6-position RJ11 (sometimes called RJ12) modular phone connectors are used for all RS-232 communications at Apache Point Observatory. ... hardware flow control transmit (optional) . ... There are two different names for the connectors we use: "6-wire 6-position RJ11" appears to be most common, but "RJ12" is, or was, also used. ... These are fine for most serial connections, but beware of special cases in which the outer pair (hardware flow control) is in...

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. ...

Radio Interferometry Principles . Radio Interferometry Signal Processing . ... A radio interferometer consists of a pair of directional antennas that are tuned to receive radio emissions from a source in a desired RF band. ... The antennas are pointed at the radio source of interest and are set up to receive the signal and process it into a form suitable for transmission to the correlator. ... In connected element interferometry, the digital signal goes directly to the correlator. ...

... The tracking system works in micro-step regime with a computer step of correction = 0.003 arcsec per second of time and a maximum speed of correction up to 4.6 arcsec per second of time. ... The APD module was constructed for performing experiments of receiving of 2 Mbps signals from “ARTEMIS” using the Cassegrain focus of 0.7m telescope. ... GaAs PIN photo diode. ... Laser module with thermoelectric stabilisation of laser diode. ... Electronic module for turbulence compensation system . ...

... Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D) . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Dr. Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including , 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks. ... Following 183 orbits of the Earth in 269 hours and 46 minutes, the eleven-day mission ended with Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ...

... The spectroscopic model of the source gives , the number of photons received per cm and per second at the earth, from sky position and at energy (differential per solid angle and energy). The number of photons, , detected (per second) in pixel and in PI energy bin centered at is obtained by multiplying by the effective area and applying the response matrix: . ... The correspondence between sky position and detector coordinates depends on the telescope's pointing. ...

... 4 A I. I NTRODUCTION AND BACKG ROUND A Superconducting Integrated Receiver (SIR) [1] comprises on one chip a low-noise SIS mixer with quasioptical antenna, an Flux-Flow Oscillator (FFO) acting as a Local Oscillator (LO) and a second SIS harmonic mixer (HM) for the FFO phase locking (see Fig. ... In the SIR the bandwidth is determined by the SIS mixer tuning structure and the matching circuitry between the SIS and the FFO. ...

... SSAU History . ... The Ground Control Complex for Small Spacecraft of Samara State Aerospace University took control of the satellites Aist-1 . ... The data received from SSAU scientific equipment on board of the satellites Aist-1 was processed by the engineers of the Rocket and Space Centre and then was transferred to the university scientists. ... On April 19, 2013 the first small spacecraft Aist-1 was launched from the space-launch complex Baykonur together with a research satellite Bion-M No. ...

MAKING THE PROFILES . First of all you are expected to load a FITS file ("FILE"-"LOAD"). ... By pressing the middle button you copy the profile from the first profile window to the second one. ... An example: first integral can correspond to the profile of active region and second integral can correspond to the profile of quiet chromospheric region. ... The second profile (which is subtracted from the first one) you extract after clicking on "SUBTRACT"-"MARK QUIET PROFILE" and marking the region. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Satellite telemetry and remote sensing techniques in ecological and zoological education . ... Worldwide the spatial orientation, habitat selection, and behaviour of many animal species is already being investigated with the Argos Satellite System. ... Department of Vertebrate Zoology of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) conducts research with a variety of animals that needs satellite tracking. ...

... This appartus will drop a mass from different heights. When the mass strikes the ground, some percentage of its original energy will be absorbed by the ground. ... The percentage of the energy which is absorbed by the surface on each "bounce" (EAS) . ... The impact velocity of the object will also be given at each bounce. ... Start= Drop the ball after Energy, Mass and EAS have been set; resume after step or pause has been selected . ... Reset = Reset experiment to intial values . ...

... Prognoz Launches . ... Images . ... antenna of the low-frequency radiation receiver of the electromagnetic field . ... panel of solar batteries . magnetometer bar Prognoz is the name of the once soviet Earth research artificial satellites (ISZ for Russian) meant to study processes of solar activity, their influence on interplanetary environment and the Earth magnetosphere. ... solar wind and magnetosphere study . ... Full image is 61k . Full image is 52k . Full image is 60k . ...

... 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...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Antenna system . ... The Irkutsk incoherent scatter radar is one of the world's nine active radars which give the opportunity to investigate ionosphere by the incoherent scatter method. ... Antenna gain coefficient . ... Antenna . ... Two antennas . ... To get an idea what station "Dnepr" antenna system looks like, let us consider some of the radar views which are given by the photographs General view and Side view . ...