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NOAO and work
He began work in December 1994 in his present position in what is now the NOAO Gemini Science Center, assisting the NGSC Director in overseeing the development of instruments in the US for the Gemini 8-meter telescopes.

NOAO and on
There are many packages available by NOAO and external developers often focusing on a particular branch of research or facility.
NOAO seems to have made no effort to clarify this situation, open-source developers concerned with license issues have made no effort to correct this on their own, and so efforts to package the software for drop-in installation in GNU / Linux systems have lapsed.
An adaptive secondary mirror is being developed by NOAO for Gemini ; this would provide reasonable adaptive-optics corrections ( equivalent to natural seeing at the 20th-percentile level 80 % of the time ) to all instruments on the telescope to which it is attached.
It will share operational infrastructure with Gemini, SOAR, and NOAO, both on the mountain and in La Serena.
The Blanco 4m is the only telescope on Cerro Tololo managed directly by NOAO.
Over the years, AURA expanded its focus to include Solar Astronomy and the Gemini 8-meter telescopes, going on to partner with other consortia such as WIYN ( Wisconsin Indiana Yale & NOAO ) and SOAR ( Southern Astrophysical Research ).

NOAO and community
NOAO has worked very hard with the US community in the ensuing years in developing this System.
NOAO is working with both projects in planning for potential future involvement of the broad US community through operational support funding by the NSF.
From 2004 to 2010, approximately 8 % of MMT observing time was made accessible to the entire astronomical community via the US National Science Foundation's Telescope System Instrumentation Program ( TSIP ), administered by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ).

NOAO and System
A clear success story is the public access to non-federal large aperture telescopes through the NSF funded and NOAO managed Telescope System Instrumentation Program ( TSIP ).
The Small and Medium Research Telescope System ( SMARTS ) is a consortium formed in 2001 after NOAO announced it would no longer support anything smaller than two meters at CTIO.

NOAO and research
The National Science Foundation ( NSF ) funds NOAO to provide forefront astronomical research facilities for US astronomers.
NOAO operates world class research telescopes in both the northern and southern hemispheres.

NOAO and capabilities
In March 2012, NOAO released v2. 16 of IRAF, citing one of the " new capabilities " as " Removal of all license restrictions-IRAF is now free ".

NOAO and for
IRAF ( an acronym for Image Reduction and Analysis Facility ) is a collection of software written at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ) geared towards the reduction of astronomical images in pixel array form.
The National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ) is the United States national observatory for ground based nighttime ultraviolet-optical-infrared ( OUVIR ) astronomy.
The NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy ( AURA ), under a cooperative agreement with the NSF.
During this phase, NOAO is responsible for design & development of the LSST telescope system and site facilities.
NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy ( AURA ), which owns the property around the two peaks in Chile and at the headquarters in La Serena.
The National Science Foundation ( NSF ) is the funding agency for NOAO.
It was dedicated in 2004 and is managed by NOAO for an international consortium of which NOAO is a partner.
The organization is responsible for the operation of several important observatories, known as " AURA centers ": the Gemini Observatory ; the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ); the National Solar Observatory ( NSO ); the Space Telescope Science Institute ( STScI ); and the AURA Observatory ( AURA-O ).

NOAO and open
However, professional astronomers from any country in the world may apply to use the telescopes operated by NOAO under the NSF's " open skies " policy.
The combination of truly open access and the merit based science proposal process makes NOAO unique in the world.

NOAO and based
NASA accepts proposals from researchers based in the United States, while the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ) accept proposals from researchers around the world.

NOAO and .
In 1982 NOAO was formed to consolidate the management of three optical observatories — Kitt Peak ; the National Solar Observatory facilities at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, New Mexico ; and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
It also has Phoenix, a high-resolution infrared spectrograph build by NOAO of the United States, although this instrument is no longer offered.
* NICI ( Near-Infrared Coronagraphic Imager ), built by the University of Hawaii and NOAO.
The NOAO headquarters are located in Tucson, Arizona and are co-located with the headquarters of the National Solar Observatory.
NOAO also manages US participation in the international Gemini Observatory.
NOAO is a founding partner in the LSST project.
CTIO is one of two observatories managed by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ), the other being Kitt Peak National Observatory ( KPNO ) near Tucson, Arizona.

continues and work
Ayckbourn, however, continues to write and direct his own work at the theatre.
The University has been shaped by their spirit of hard work and dedication to the principles that everyone should have access to university regardless of gender, race or religious affiliations-a spirit which continues to guide the university today.
In his later work, Quaestio disputata antequam erat Frater 46, he finally rejects the plurality of divine ideas, and this theme continues through the rest of his works.
Despite the presence of more than 9, 000 UN forces ( UNOCI ) in Côte d ' Ivoire since 2004, ethnic conflict continues to spread into neighboring states who can no longer send their migrant workers to work in Ivorian cocoa plantations.
The bra-ket notation continues to work in an analogous way in this broader context.
Even today, the procedure is credited with ending the devastation caused by the early epidemics, and vaccination, in many ways an updated and modernized form of the procedure, continues to be recommended by the Centers for Disease Control for at-risk populations, such as potential victims of bioterrorism, and research scientists who work with surviving strains of the virus.
Initial optimism in Nova Scotia about the potential of off-shore resources appears to have diminished with the lack of new discoveries, although exploration work continues and is moving farther off-shore into waters on the continental margin.
Euripides has aroused and continues to arouse strongly contrasting opinions of his work, for and against:
Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the term Orwellian — descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices — has entered the vernacular with several of his neologisms, such as doublethink, thoughtcrime, and thought police.
Much of his theological work continues to influence modern theologians, especially in regard to the relationship among the three Persons of the Trinity.
ICAO's environmental committee continues to consider the potential for using market-based measures such as trading and charging, but this work is unlikely to lead to global action.
… The work begins in Florida in early January and continues through mid-March.
This effort continues, and the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary remains an important work in the electrical and electronic industries.
An irreducibly complex system cannot be produced directly ( that is, by continuously improving the initial function, which continues to work by the same mechanism ) by slight, successive modifications of a precursor system, because any precursor to an irreducibly complex system that is missing a part is by definition nonfunctional.
Today, he continues to be described as a hero to fiscal conservatives who believe that free markets and low taxes work better than government bureaucracies.
Together they wrote an influential 1995 book The Major Transitions in Evolution, a seminal work which continues to contribute to ongoing issues in evolutionary biology.
Francine Cousteau currently continues her husband's work as the head of the Cousteau Foundation and Cousteau Society.
His work has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to influence these disciplines.
In spite of the artistic / ethical questions this raises regarding the testament of Dirks ' original work, the arrangement continues on to this day.
" The review does praise the work as it continues, " Still if Mr. Coleridge's two hundred lines were all of equal merit with the following which he has preserved, we are ready to admit that he has reason to be grieved at their loss.
The second work, by Jonaraja, continues the history from where Kalhana left off, and, entering the Muslim period, gives an account of the reigns down to that of Zain-ul-Abidin, 1412.
He then moved to the Open Source Development Labs, which has since merged with the Free Standards Group to become the Linux Foundation, under whose auspices he continues to work.
The anarchist-communist tradition continues today, for instance in the work of L. Susan Brown.
As the course outlines of his Sorbonne lectures indicate, during this period he continues a dialogue between phenomenology and the diverse work carried out in psychology, all in order to return to the study of the acquisition of language in children, as well as to broadly take advantage of the contribution of Ferdinand de Saussure to linguistics, and to work on the notion of structure through a discussion of work in psychology, linguistics and social anthropology.

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