The warm-room
processor is the most powerful computer at the observatory. It is equipped
with an AMD K6-2 processor operating at 350 Mhz. During an observing run,
its function is to determine when a new image has been acquired at the
telescope. It will copy the image across the network and will proceed to
align (pattern match) the stars in the image with the
Hubble Guide
Star Catalog (GSC). The GSC was created to support the Hubble Space
Telescope and contains about 19 million stars. When the image has been
successfully matched to the GSC, then the corresponding field from the
USNO-A2.0 catalog (containing over 500
million stars, supposedly more accurate than the GSC) is imported for subsequent
data analysis.
The warm-room
processor is the most powerful computer at the observatory. It is equipped
with an AMD K6-2 processor operating at 350 Mhz. During an observing run,
its function is to determine when a new image has been acquired at the
telescope. It will copy the image across the network and will proceed to
align (pattern match) the stars in the image with the