... HST . ... Data . ... Annual Reports . ... Science Blog . ... HST Overview . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... HST Science Year in Review . ... Purpose: The purpose of this program is to monitor the sensitivity, wavelength and detector calibrations of Side 1. ... The data will be reduced and analyzed by technical assistants, L. E. Sherbert (0.08 FTE) and A. Gonnella (0.08 FTE) under the supervision of an Instrument Scientist (0.04 FTE per execution for a total of 0.08 FTE). ...

... 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. ...

... As modern observatories evolve to production units delivering data products and calibrated scientific data to the end users, new challenges arise in assessing the quality of data products. ... Taking the analogy of speed control on a motorway we can describe the system as a device (radar) collecting measurements of the system performance (passing cars). ... One of the direct applications of quality control is the verification of instrument performance based on the analysis of calibration exposures. ...

... In order to realize the optimal scientific return from the VLT, ESO has undertaken to develop an end-to-end data flow system from proposal entry to science archive. The VLT Data Flow System (DFS) is being designed and implemented by the DFS Group (ESO Internal access only) in collaboration with VLT Division and Instrumentation Division . ... VLT Control System Interface . ... OBs are the quantum of data that flows within the DFS, collecting state, data and status information as they flow. ...

Next: MIDAS And the Up: Monitor and Command Previous: Monitor and Command . ... the MIDAS working directory for internal files and (optionally) private procedures: . ... On a Unix system use the option -m < mid_work > to change the default working directory, and -p or -P to run MIDAS in parallel mode љ when you start MIDAS via the command inmidas (see below). ... In NOPARALLEL mode all intermediate MIDAS files in the MIDAS startup directory are deleted when starting MIDAS via inmidas. ...

... The product and processing information for the EPIC instrument. ... Parameter Mand Type Default Constraints pindex yes dataset none valid le name The Pipeline Processing Summary Index File obspage yes string none valid le name Output observation summary page . ppspage yes string none valid le name Output pipeline processing summary page . epxpage yes string none valid le name Output EPIC instruments processing summary ... Pipeline processing HTML summary le. ...

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): . ...

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. The ALFA observation monitor window can be used to display the WAPP power levels for each ALFA beam. The 'Open ALFA instrument monitor window' button opens the ALFA instrument monitor window . You can return to the main CIMA page by clicking here .

Next: *timsort* Up: Timing Analysis Previous: Summary of tasks in . ... Events will be time ordered in the output file. xt> timsort xdata$snr psr ``c 503 513 24'' none A light curve is then generated and plotted so we can inspect the gross properties of the sample (the sequence of good-data intervals and gaps) and any source variability. xt> ltcurv psr none psr 500 xt> ltcplot psr_ltc Finding this sample satisfactory, we search for periodicity with a fast Fourier transform. ...

... CentralProcessor 0.11 documentation . ... The Central Processor Manager is the local monitoring and control agent for the Central Processor sub-system. ... At the moment the Central Processor Manager only controls the acquisition phase; that is, it only controls the ingest pipeline. ... In addition to the CP manager specific parameters, any parameters that begin with ice_properties are passed directly to the ICE Communicator during initialisation. ... string . ... Central Processor Manager . ...

... 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 INTEGRAL Science Data Centre Roland Walter, Alain Aubord, Paul Bartholdi, Jurek Borkowski, Pierre Bratschi, Tomaso Contessi, Thierry Courvoisier, Davide Cremonesi, Pierre Dubath, Donnald Jennings, Peter Kretschmar, Tim Lock, St’ephane Paltani, Reiner Rohlfs and Julian Sternberg 1 INTEGRAL Science Data Centre, Chemin d' ’ Ecogia 16, CH--1290 Versoix, Switzerland Abstract. INTEGRAL is a gamma­ray observatory mission of the Eu­ ropean Space Agency to be launched in 2001. ...

... Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... MASTER . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... Latest news and news archive . ... GRB 100901A: MASTER prompt optical+afterglow observations GCN Circ 11178 | GCN Circ 11165 | M GCN Circ 11163 | M GCN Circ 11161 | ... The longest set of the photometry on same type instruments. ... All news ...

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 . ...

The IAA RAS . ... View details . ... Observatories 'Svetloe' and 'Zelenchukskaya' participate in frequent VLBI-observation sessions organized by the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry . ... As part of collaboration with the U. S. Naval observatory in the areas of EOP determination and analysis the USNO uses IAA RAS daily EOP data obtained from SLR and VLBI. ... The IAA RAS and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales carry out joint DORIS observations on the Badary observatory. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . ... Laser station . ... Built a network of laser stations (LLS), radio (GNSS) satellites and observation radiointerferometrychnyh observations of quasars (VLBI) ( YA.S. Yatskiv, Medvedsky MM, AA Pace, EE Volvach, YL Kokurin in collaboration with workers in other entities) . ... БЂў Laser station observation satellites is the global network of service stations of the International Earth rotation and conducts active surveillance for international programs. ...

OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI CENTRO PER L'ASTRONOMIA INFRAROSSA E LO STUDIO DEL MEZZO INTERSTELLARE LARGO ENRICO FERMI, 5 -- I­50125 FIRENZE Firenze, September 30, 1994 FROM: C. Baffa TO: Tirgo Staff SUBJECT: Data handling with Tirgo Nicmos3 instruments All data taken with Tirgo Nicmos3 instruments (Arnica and Longsp) are stored directly as standard FITS files at 16 bits integer format. ... The acquisition program never rewrites over an old file. ... An example in table 1. ...

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