STIS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 17: Calibration Statusand Plans > 17.17 Cycle 23 Calibration Plan . 17.17 . Cycle 23 Calibration Plan . ... A detailed summary of the calibration plans can be found on the STIS Calibration page . ...

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... 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. ...

Marses Instrument . ... Currently we use a Tem-fast 48 sounding instrument that is based on time domain electromagnetic sounding technology. ... Areas of application are following: . ... hidrogeological research, . ... Despite many competitors' instruments with similar areas of application, Tem-fast 48 has reasonable advantages among small depth sounding devices. ... The Tem-fast 48 sounding instrument consists of following devices: . ... The block diagram of the sounding instrument is outlined below. ...

... The task clearly needs to know the direction in space of the focal axis of the relevant instrument at the time of the observation of interest. There are three necessary pieces of information: the name of the instrument, the date-time of the observation and the spacecraft pointing direction (attitude) at this time. ... There are two ways to pass the `cal' information to esky2det , governed by the parameter calinfostyle : . ...

... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

... Monitor short-term and long-term performance of all pipeline supported instrument modes, to assure that ESO delivers astronomical data of known and controlled quality . Follow the execution of instrument calibration plans; work with Paranal Science Operations to maintain calibration plans . Process all pipeline supported calibration data; ingest certified calibration products into the Archive . Create associations for all pipeline supported science data and archive them . ...

ERS -1,2 SAR . ... SIR-C/X SAR . ... European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-1) was launched on 17 July 1991, and the follow mission ERS-2 (with the same sensors and an Ozone monitoring instrument added) was launched on 21 April 1995. ... The Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR), carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in April and October of 1994, simultaneously recorded SAR data at three wavelengths (L-, C-, and X-bands; 23.5, 5.8, and 3.1 cm, respectively). ...

... Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are currently by far the most widely used type of detector in astronomy. ... After a brief introduction to the VLT Control System, the VLT CCD Detectors Control Software is presented. The VLT Control System is a distributed system consisting of a set of UNIX Workstations, dedicated to high level operations, such as coordination of sub-system activities and interface to the users, and VME-based Local Control Units (LCU), dedicated to the control of sub-systems hardware. ...

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   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. ...

Displays the current status of Echelle spectrograph and allows you to change the configuration. ... Select TUI:Save Window Positions to remember the state of this checkbutton. ... The contextual menu on each control can return that control to the current setting of the instrument. ... Note that it saves the state of the controls, not the actual state of the instrument, so you can save any preset you like without commanding the instrument. ... Then change any controls you like and press Apply to apply. ...

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 . ...

AUTOMATIC STATION OF ECOLOGICAL CONTROL . ... AIR POLLUTION MONITORING . Atmospheric air pollution monitoring is necessary in the following areas: . Test ranges, industrial enterprises and living areas in the vicinity of enterprises with high ecological risk (chemical plants, petroleum refinery and gas producing enterprises, etc); . ... Continuous control of ecological state of atmospheric air in dangerous areas; . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Click on an object in the solar system or choose from the list at left to learn more . The Arecibo Observatory planetary radar is the world's most powerful instrument for post-discovery characterization and orbital refinement of near-Earth objects. ... The Solar System Studies group is a department of the Arecibo Observatory, which is an NSF facility operated under cooperative agreement by SRI International, Universities Space Research Association (USRA), and la Universidad Metropolitana (UMET). ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit: Louis Strous ( LMSAL ), SOHO - MDI Consortium, ESA , NASA Explanation: The Sun rotates on its axis about once every 27 days. ... Just follow the sunspots . ... It shows the Sun's visible surface for most days of August 1999 so that the same sunspots appear many times as the solar rotation carries them across the face of the Sun . ... Publications with keywords: Sun - solar rotation - sunspot . Publications with words: Sun - solar rotation - sunspot . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. October 21, 1999 . Follow The Spots . Credit: Louis Strous ( LMSAL ), SOHO - MDI Consortium, ESA , NASA . ... Just follow the sunspots . ... It shows the Sun's visible surface for most days of August 1999 so that the same sunspots appear many times as the solar rotation carries them across the face of the Sun . ... About APOD > . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Team . ... GRB mini-workshop 2006 . ... 6-meter telescope BTA: . The monitoring of gamma-ray burst afterglows and the study of their host galaxies . Monitoring of core-collapse supernovae and investigation of their host galaxies . ... Supernovae and gamma-ray bursts . ... Are some GRB host galaxies lying in galaxy clusters? ... Supernovae and gamma-ray bursts (Within the scope of the international program "Astronomy in Prielbrusiye") . ... The physics of gamma-ray bursts in the SWIFT era . ...

Next: Summary of Imaging Strategies Up: Primary Beams and Mosaicing Previous: Mosaicing Observing Strategies . ... Splitting: As with conventional reduction, for calibration and imaging purposes, it is easiest in Miriad to split the data into datasets containing a `single source' and single frequency band. ... vis=mosaic.uv . ... Data Selection: With mosaic visibility datasets, the select=ra and select=dec selection sub-commands can be useful to extract or manipulate a subset of the visibility data. ...

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