... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

... Required qualifications: BS in Electronics Engineering. ... Required qualifications: BS in Electronics Engineering or Electronics Technology field with three to five years experience in operation, calibration and maintenance of high-voltage equipment or equivalent combination. Supervisory experience required. ... Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, with more than five but less than seven years experience or equivalent combination. ...

... Chapter 6: Parallel Science Exposures > 6.3 Coordinated Parallel Containers . ... 6.3.2 Targets . ... This designates a set of one or more parallel exposures which will execute in parallel with a set of one or more primary exposures in the same visit. ... A Coordinated Parallel Container designates a set of one or more parallel exposures ( <parallel-exp-list> ) that will execute in parallel with a set of one or more primary exposures ( <primary-exp-list ) in the same visit. ...

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. ... Information on the NTP architecture, protocol and algorithms can be found in the following articles and reports, which are available online . Mills, D.L. Internet time synchronization: the Network Time Protocol. ... Mills, D.L. Network Time Protocol (Version 3) specification, implementation and analysis. ...

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Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... A GB (GB1 and GB2) code is a two byte code, where the first byte is in the range $21-$77 (hexadecimal), and the second byte is in the range $21-$7E. A graphical ASCII character is a byte in the range $21-$7E. A non-graphical ASCII character is a byte in the range $0-$20 or of the value $7F. Since the range of a graphical ASCII character overlaps that of a GB byte, a byte in the range $21-$7E is interpreted according to the mode it is in. ... This code switches the mode from GB back to ASCII. ...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

... CentralProcessor 0.11 documentation . ... It can be run with the following command, where ?config.in? is a file containing the configuration parameters described in the next section. ... Parset parameters understood by ccontsubtract are given in the following table (all parameters must have CContSubtract prefix, i.e. CContSubtract.dataset ). ... A number of other parameters allowing the user to narrow down the data selection are understood. ... Parameter . ... Data set file name to work with. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

... Up: Image Display in Xwindows Previous: Image Display in Xwindows . If you are using PROS/IRAF via remote logon to another computer, and if you have an imaging terminal, SAOimage , can be used to display data but you must setup as follows : . ... Initiate X windows on your home terminal before logging on to the remote computer. If you remote logon first, then initiate X windows, the windows appear on the remote computer, rather than your home terminal. ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Errors . ... warning . ... For instance, if the PROPOSAL information record is missing the user can add a fake one to the SOSF without this having any effect on the data reduction. corrective action: Continue. ... For a certain exposure in the ODF one of the parameters was not found in the housekeeping data. ... RGS, EPN, OM : the current exposure is found to contain more than one distinct calibration mode. corrective action: In the summary file: MODE = UNDEFINED . ... error...

... We have developed an integrated system that performs astronomical observations in Near Infrared bands operating two-dimensional instruments at the Italian National Infrared Facility's ARNICA and LONGSP . ... The user interface is organized as widget-based X11 client. ... 1993; Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ... Moreover, if the interprocess communication interface includes support for networking, the software immediately becomes network distributed software. ... DESQview/X User Guide 1993, Quarterdeck . ...

Computer Ephemeris. Precession/nutation matrix. Explanations. Each row contains for the date specified at 0 h of Time Dynamical Terrestrial nine elements of equatorial precession/nutation matrix minus unity matrix multiplied on 10 8 . This matrix is to be used for coordinate transformation of equatorial coordinates between mean equatror and equinox J2000.0 and real equator and equinox of date. ... This is the matrix for transformation from J2000.0 to date. ...

... In the 1800s it was already evident that the Earth's magnetic field was involved: auroral rays seemed to follow the Earth's magnetic field lines, and the frequency with which aurora was observed depended on the distance from the magnetic pole, not from the geographic one. ... That is the beginning of the ionosphere , a layer with enough free electrons (and ions) to play an important role in radio communications. ... The simplest atom is the one of hydrogen, with just one electron. ...

... In the 1800s it was already evident that the Earth's magnetic field was involved: auroral rays seemed to follow the Earth's magnetic field lines, and the frequency with which aurora was observed depended on the distance from the magnetic pole, not from the geographic one. ... That is the beginning of the ionosphere , a layer with enough free electrons (and ions) to play an important role in radio communications. ... The simplest atom is the one of hydrogen, with just one electron. ...

... Ham packet radio system including: . ... control computer RSC 2. dedicated software monitoring generation of probing pulses in onboard transceiver in radio beacon mode; . ground receiving network of ham radio packet communication to record probing pulses of onboard radio beacon; . ... Generation of onboard radio beacon probing pulses as time marks to ground receiving network (including ham radio receivers of USW) and transmission of the measurement results throughout Internet network. ...

Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography There are a wide variety of texts available for those who are interested in learning more about assembly language or other topics this text covers. ... Microprocessor Programming for Computer Hobbyists Neill Graham TAB books ISBN 0-8306-6952-3 1977 This book provides a gentle introduction to data structures for computer hobbyists. ... IBM Assembler Language and Programming Peter Able Prentice-Hall ISBN 0-13-448143-7 1987 A college text book on assembly language. ...

This note outlines how to configure the computers needed to run DIMMWIT. ... dimmwit : ICE (single-board computer in a box) that runs the Starlight Express CCD camera, to which it is connected by a USB interface. dimmwithost : displays the finder application via the X protocol (finder actually runs on dimmwit). Acts as a file server; both the finder software and the DIMM data are stored on dimmwithost. ... mkdir -p /data/oberon/data/finder . chown coast:coast /data/oberon/data/finder . ...