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VieVS YouTube tutorials online

Finally, we found some time to record new videos for our VieVS YouTube channel. In these videos, all aspects of the VieVS VLBI module are discussed and examples are shown. This covers all major features of the VieVS VLBI software, including: session analysis (fixing clock breaks, removing stations, eliminating outliers…) 24-hour sessions intensive sessions investigating […]

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VieSched++ V1.0 released

Many new features and enhancements over the last months made me decide to finally close the beta status of VieSched++ and go for a full release of VieSched++ as version 1.0. VieSched++ is already widely used to schedule various observing programs, such as INT2, INT3, INT9, OHG, T2, AUA, CRDS, CRF, parts of EUVGOS, the […]

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Visit of NVI group at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

This week, Matthias Schartner is visiting the VLBI group of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, USA. The main purpose of this trip to demonstrate and teach how to use VieSched++ and VieVS together to generate high-quality VLBI schedules and Monte-Carlo simulations. Additionally, several other people from USNO and Haystack (MIT) took the […]

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VieVS days – day 1

The first day of your “VieVS days” is almost over. A big thanks for our international participants from China, Germany, and Spain as well as to our students which took part. Also a big thanks to today’s lecturers Sigrid Böhm, Helene Wolf, and Johannes Böhm. We had some really interesting exercises and fruitful discussions during […]

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Visit of WSRT and LOFAR

Today we visited the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRF) and the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) as part of the ADASS2019 conference. Especially LOFAR was very interesting since it is a very innovative new kind of telescope. Although it does not look very fancy, the science which can be done by LOFAR is outstanding. It observes […]

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Vienna contribution to ADASS2019

For the first time, a member of the Higher Geodesy group in Vienna traveled to the Astronomical Data Analysis and Software System (ADASS) conference. This year, ADASS was hosted by the Netherlands in Groningen. Matthias Schartner presented his new VLBI scheduling software VieSched++. Have a look at the abstract.

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