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 ).

It also has Phoenix, a high-resolution infrared spectrograph build by NOAO of the United States, although this instrument is no longer offered.

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.

There are many packages available by NOAO and external developers often focusing on a particular branch of research or facility.

A full IRAF working environment usually requires two other applications: an extended xterm window with a graphics windows ( called xgterm and distributed in a separate X11-IRAF package by NOAO ) and an image display program referred to as an " image server ".

The NOAO headquarters are located in Tucson, Arizona and are co-located with the headquarters of the National Solar Observatory.

The NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy ( AURA ), under a cooperative agreement with the NSF.

It will share operational infrastructure with Gemini, SOAR, and NOAO, both on the mountain and in La Serena.

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.

SMARTS contracts with NOAO to maintain the telescopes it controls at CTIO, and NOAO retains the right to 25 % of the observing time, and Chilean scientists retain 10 %.

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 ).

In 1990, Trueblood moved to Tucson, Arizona to assume a position with the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO, which serves as the US national observatory ) at the National Solar Observatory.

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 ".

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.

NOAO continues to work on behalf of the community to effectively shape the System and gain steady, state-of-the-art research capabilities of all apertures for open, merit based science.

The Blanco 4m is the only telescope on Cerro Tololo managed directly by NOAO.

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 National Science Foundation ( NSF ) funds NOAO to provide forefront astronomical research facilities for US astronomers.

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 ).

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.

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.

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

* NICI ( Near-Infrared Coronagraphic Imager ), built by the University of Hawaii and NOAO.

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 operates world class research telescopes in both the northern and southern hemispheres.

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.

Willard Thorp, in his new book, American Writing In The Twentieth Century, observes, quite validly it seems: `` Certain subjects are conspicuously absent or have been only lightly touched.

He seems, by some unconscious division of labor, to have given them that one function and no other, leaving communication to the rest of the face.

The primary quality of that view seems, now, to have been its quietness, but that cannot at the time have impressed us.

Every First Family seems to have one couple upon whom it relies for true friendship.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

Again the student of evolutionary biology will find a fascinating, if to our minds grotesque, anticipation of the theory of chance variations and the natural elimination of the unfit in Lucretius, who in turn seems to have borrowed the concept from the philosopher Empedocles.

The Liberal-Radical heritage which informs all of Trevelyan's interpretations of history here seems clearly to have distorted the issues and oversimplified the period.

Katherine was staying at a convent, and her mother felt that, as Thompson himself seems to have suggested, she might eventually stay there.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

His whole objection, indeed, seems to rise out of a deep conviction that the poets do have great power to influence, but Plato seldom pays any attention to what might be called the poem itself.

Amadee may have owed this partly to his relationship with the king, but Othon, who at sixty seems still to have been a simple knight, merited his position solely by his own character and ability.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Commerce Secretary Hodges seems to have been cast in the role of pacemaker for official Washington's economic forecasters.

Possibly responsible for this is the incoming trend toward multicolor schemes in rooms, which seems slated to replace the one-color look to which we have been accustomed.

He seems to have at least a few 30- and 50-megaton bombs on hand, since we cannot assume that he has exploded his entire stock.

It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends.

Of those who have an opinion, it seems that assessment by location is preferred.

But contest definition -- that dramatic muscular separation of every muscle group that seems as though it must have been carved by a sculptor's chisel -- is something quite different.

It seems reasonable that if general nuclear war is not to be one cataclysmic act of burning each other's citizens to cinders, we must have a manned strategic force of long-endurance aircraft capable of going into China or Russia to find and destroy their strategic forces which continued to threaten us.

Steinberg seems to have gone directly back to the score, discounting tradition, and has built his performance on the intention to reproduce as faithfully as possible exactly what Brahms set down on paper.

I have never seen Caper off his feet -- he seems to know nothing but ' trot ' and keeps trying a little harder if asked to do so.

Moreover, the larger and more aggressive mass distribution outlets and chain stores have insisted on high quality -- and the customer seems to have caught on.