The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

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Next: Available Commands Up: ASTROMET astrometry package Previous: ASTROMET astrometry package . This chapter briefly describes the astrometry context ASTROMET in MIDAS. ... IMPORTANT NOTE ***** Currently, the package has only been tested on system running SunOS. ... Performance, however, can be tested by executing the test described in the file directory /midas/$VERS/contrib/astromet/tmp/pos1.exp . The data for this test consists of two MIDAS tables: ppm300.tbl and xy300.tbl . ...

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Next: About this document Up: Improved Prescription Retrieval and Previous: Prescription Retrieval . ... We have a small amount of funding from ST ScI to provide a HST-specific point spread function generation code. ... It will be available as a stand-alone application, generating PSFs in an interactive session. These can be exported as FITS or binary format files for use in restoration. ... The code will also be available as a FORTRAN subroutine that can be called directly by a user code. ...

Next: Modes of Operation Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: Field of View . Thermal excitation of charge carriers from the valence to the conduction band creates a dark current signal which may vary with position in the array, and also has temporal shot noise variation. ... In a device devoid of localized defects which give rise to individual dark current spikes , most dark current arises from electrons generated at interface states at the surface. ...

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NGC FRONT-END FOR CCDS AND AO APPLICATIONS Javier Reyes, Mark Downing, Leander Mehrgan, Manfred Meyer and Ralf Conzelman European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany Abstract: The New General detector Controller (NGC) at ESO aims at covering optical, infrared and wavefront sensing applications with a single controller. ... In addition, the adaptation of the NGC frontend to the future ESO CCD head for AO and the control of the L3 devices is presented. ...

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... Fitting and Modeling of AXAF Data with the ASC Fitting Application S. Doe, M. Ljungberg, A. Siemiginowska and W. Joye AXAF Science Center, MS 81, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Abstract. ... Fitting and Modeling of AXAF Data 159 MODEL MANAGER FIT STATISTIC MANAGER MANAGER SRC BKGD INSTR MODEL = SRC + BKGD * INSTR MODELS MODELS MODELS MANAGER MANAGER STATS METHODS OPTIMIZATION METHOD MANAGER Figure 3. The Model, Method, and Statistic Managers. ...