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16 Jun 2015: Las Campanas IR Survey(LCIRS), Gravitational Lensing,. The Institute of Astronomy has been particularly fortunate in being given a substantial donation for the development of new instruments, as part of the

10 Mar 2015: LMC, SMC, the HI stream and the new satellites. Credit: V.

16 Jun 2015: DAZLE : The Dark Age Z(redshift) Lyman-alpha Explorer. [ Internal Project pages ]. DAZLE is a narrow band imaging instrument developed by the Institute of Astronomy (Cambridge) and the Anglo-Australian Observatory with the singular aim of detecting

16 Jun 2015: We are collaborating with Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) to design a new Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) for Exoplanetary Science.

16 Jun 2015: LCO observing guide -- computer inventory, observing procedures, troubleshooting, etc. observing procedure at INT (including new TCS info), troubleshooting, etc. ... PixCel Manual -- PixCel Manual with added Chapter 0 describing new IR features.

16 Jun 2015: 2. HgCdTe arrays for making deep NIR surveys. As part of our spectroscopy program we are also designing new spectrographs for 8-m telescopes which employ digital and hardware OH suppression.

16 Jun 2015: in_outfi= fibpos_paschenJ.list Name of file to contain the new position informa in_noise= 10 background noise in image in_sigma= 10 sigma above background which indicates a line

16 Jun 2015: This new instrument configuration is called CIRPASS. COHSI was designed to suppress the nightsky airglow due to OH emission in the 1.0-1.8 micron region by filtering out the

16 Jun 2015: Package loading. The TCL system contains a mechanism for finding automatically searching and loading new packages to if a command is used which isn't in the currently loaded set. ... The system must be able to issue commands to the telescope to acquire

16 Jun 2015: With the advent of the new 1024. 2. arrays this restriction is removed and it is possible to do the OH suppression in software (digital suppression) by simply capturing the spectra

16 Jun 2015: The command will not create a new image if an existing image has the same name. ... Note that new images can be initialsed to any value when they are created with the imcreate command.

16 Jun 2015: Operating commands. Written in TCL scripting language, using both built-in TCL language features and new camera specific commands. ... This will translate the message containing the new position into the local telescope control language.

16 Jun 2015: CIRSI DuPont Run; 2001 Apr 10-15. TODO. find out who will help set up on the first night [done]. finalise targets and field centres [done]. prepare almanac WWW page [done]. exposure times; dither patterns [done]. make a nightly plan [done]. Richard G

16 Jun 2015: defining a large sample of candidate high redshift near-IR selected galaxies for follow-up spectroscopy with the new Gemini 8m and Magellan 6.5m telescopes, and.

16 Jun 2015: The essential tasks required at the telescope are:. display a reconstructed broad-band image (with the option to save this image into a new FITS file).

16 Jun 2015: New Observing Log Summary This includes pointing specific information such as exposures, seeing and sky brightness estimate.

16 Jun 2015: CIRSI DuPont Run; 2000 Dec 13-17. TODO. find out who will help set up on the first night [done]. finalise targets and field centres [done]. prepare almanac WWW page [done]. exposure times; dither patterns [done]. make a nightly plan [done]. Richard G

16 Jun 2015: CIRSI DuPont Run; 03-11 Nov 2000. TODO. find out who will help set up on the first night [done]. finalise targets and field centres [done]. prepare almanac WWW page [done]. exposure times; dither patterns [done]. make a nightly plan [done]. Richard G

16 Jun 2015: Although this model provides a number of important safety features for the new user, you cannot forget to save changes to an image or lose data because of a crash, there ... Instead of loading an image changing it and then saving the result you must copy

16 Jun 2015: The command will not create a new image if an existing image has the same name. ... Note that new images can be initialised to any value when they are created with the imcreate command.

16 Jun 2015: CIRSI DuPont Run; 2001 Apr 10-15. TODO. find out who will help set up on the first night [done]. finalise targets and field centres [done]. prepare almanac WWW page [done]. exposure times; dither patterns [done]. make a nightly plan [done]. Richard G

16 Jun 2015: im_ - Pointer to an image created with new(). h_ - Handle.

16 Jun 2015: Parameters. The new parameters are in five groups at end of the pixcel.ini. ... RUN=0 to 9999999. A run number is inserted into the filename of each fits file written, the number is automatically incremented with each new sequence.

16 Jun 2015: The usual scheme is for actuators on the back of a thin mirror to bend it into a new shape to cancel the wavefront distortions introduced by the atmosphere. ... This has been possible because of the introduction of new detector technology but why was it

16 Jun 2015: 1996) New Astronomy, 1, 177. Maihara et al. (1993) P.A.S.P., 105, 940.

16 Jun 2015: Default values for new sections. [INFRARED] LINEAR=none FLIP_V=FALSE FLIP_H=FALSE ASSEMBLE=FALSE ROTATE_ORDER=0,90,180,270 ROTATE=FALSE SHIFT=0 CONSTANT=0 SUBTRACT=FALSE

16 Jun 2015: The CIRPASS team and the new CIRPASS plug-plate system at cassegrain.

16 Jun 2015: CIRSI Publications. SPIE Proceedings.. CIRSI: Progress with the Cambridge Infra Red Survey Instrument. M.G. Beckett, C.D. Mackay, R.G. McMahon, I.R. Parry, R.S. Ellis, S.J. Chan, M. Hoenig. in 'Infrared Astronomical Instrumentation', 1998, Editor:

16 Jun 2015: This new instrument configuration is called CIRPASS. COHSI was designed to suppress the nightsky airglow due to OH emission in the 1.0-1.8 micron region by filtering out the

16 Jun 2015: What has to happen is that the configuration file being used has to be edited and then re-loaded into Pixcel with the new parameters in it.

16 Jun 2015: Transfer to another telescope therefore is simply a case of making a new fibre feed and making a new plate-holder unit to suit the new telescope. ... For a multislit system transfer to another telescope requires making a new collimator.

9 Oct 2015: v22 v21) 4(Mp/M)2ǫ21 v5pv3. Hence show that the new orbit has a semimajor axis with a corresponding ǫ2 thatsatisfies.

16 Jun 2015: Please note section 7 ("Transition") in the text, in which the IAU-FWG recommends that ".readers should be altered as soon as possible to cope with the new format." and ".FITS ... conformance to these new rules in order to be prepared for full

16 Jun 2015: The plot is updated with the pixels from the new image under the line selection. ... The histogram is updated with the data from the new image under the rectangle selection.

16 Jun 2015: vii) type 'cmd TCS USER "ENTER APERTURE 0 x y" where x & y are the new aperture 0 values. ... The boring command in section (vii) could be put into a script [rgm 20000614] (ix) NOW edit the CIRSILoadApertures script to have the new value of aperture 0.

16 Jun 2015: cubemean.c Assume new controler in place, loop1 not skipped Version 0.94 (November 2001) - Carine Babusiaux Add 2mass catalogue option in astrometry.pl (using 2mass.pl) Version 0.93 (20

16 Jun 2015: Then on the PLW window, go to Files->New Settings and click OK on the next few windows that pop up. ... In the Guider Control GUI, select Options->Timing and enter new rates (two sets of rates are written on the white board).

16 Jun 2015: Attempted to install new modes, but unsuccessfully 8/6/97 4.08: Installed Shutter control mode selection: type 2 = single line multiple repeat type 4 = normal type 8 = read-reset-read ... L H" % Chip 4 only % CHIPALL = "H H H H" % All Chips active %

16 Jun 2015: An ideal solution would be a dichroic filter at the output of the path compensator which would reflect infrared light to the new system while allowing visible light through to the

16 Jun 2015: The prime difficulty in moving in this direction has been the prohibitive cost of the new large arrays. ... Thus the new Keck spectra give much more promising indications of the merits of surveying for emission line galaxies in the near-infrared spectral

16 Jun 2015: Readers should be altered as soon as possible to cope with the new format. ... Cases of DATE-OBS before 1900-01-01 should always be written with the new format.

16 Jun 2015: Once multiple dithers have been mosaiced the dead lense and the calibration fibers are removed form the image and the table extension is updated to reflect the new fiber to lense

16 Jun 2015: Parameters. The new parameters are in five groups at end of the pixcel.ini. ... RUN=0 to 9999999. A run number is inserted into the filename of each fits file written, the number is automatically incremented with each new sequence.

16 Jun 2015: Then on the PLW window, go to Files->New Settings and click OK on the next few windows that pop up. ... In the Guider Control GUI, select Options->Timing and enter new rates (two sets of rates are written on the white board).

16 Jun 2015: Moshut. Woodbury, New York : American Institute of Physics, 1998. (AIP conference proceedings ; 428), p.499. ... S. Young, and D. F. Buscher. A new photon counting spectrometer for the COAST.

16 Jun 2015: New features. Now works on windows98 with vxd driver. Hawaii 2K devices supported.

16 Jun 2015: PGDRIV 0 /PGMF PGPLOT metafile (new format, experimental) Std F77! PPDRIV 1 /PPM Portable Pixel Map file, landscape!

16 Jun 2015: Filters that were loaded when CIRSI was shipped to LCO:. 0 Dk Dark position; metal plate 1 Jc New Carnegie J replacing Z 2 Jg J(Gemini consortium specification) 3 Hs

16 Jun 2015: Default values for new sections. [INFRARED] LINEAR=none FLIP_V=FALSE FLIP_H=FALSE ASSEMBLE=FALSE ROTATE_ORDER=0,90,180,270 ROTATE=FALSE SHIFT=0 CONSTANT=0 SUBTRACT=FALSE

16 Jun 2015: READY - Camera is able to start a new sequence, or has just finished one. ... To return the current value of a parameter send the name of the parameter, to set a new value send the name and the value separated by a space.