CFHT Remote Control Room Project

http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/~oas/remote_op.html

 

This is a site that contains information on the efforts to make the CFHT operations control capable of being run from a remote site. This is inclusive of everything that is done by the Observing Assistants at the start middle and end of the night. The purpose of this effort is to increase the efficiency of the observing programs by running in Queue mode. This allows for changes in observing programs as the sky conditions and image quality change during the night. This is the furture of CFHT observing although classical style observing is still being done as well. The remote control room will allow us to circumvent the 2-man rule by having the control located at another location, say at our nearest neighbor, Gemini, and could be operated by one person. If the need arised to go over to the telescope the OA could enlist the help of another person who is onsite, to accompany the OA to the building to address the problem. In this manner the Queue Service Observer can work from sea level adn only one person is required to be on site.

 

 

Astronomy Bookmarks

 

Here is a collection of links to various Astronomy sites on the Web. Some are of other telescopes and others are for information, research and general interest.

 

 

 

The Mauna Kea Neighborhood

 

Joint Astronomy Centre (JCMT and UKIRT)

http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JACpublic/index.html

 

Gemini

http://www.gemini.edu

 

Keck

http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu:3636/

 

Subaru

http://www.naoj.org/

 

Institute for Astronomy (LURE and Mees Observatories on Maui)

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/

 

IRTF

http://irtf.ifa.hawaii.edu/

 

Caltech Submillimeter Observatory

http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~cso/

Harvard – Smithsonian Submillimetre Array

http://sma2.harvard.edu/index.html

 

National Radio Astronomical Observatory, Vary Long Baseline Array

http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/doc/vlba/html/VLBA.html

 

 

INFORMATION AND ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH

 

 

Photographs of Messier Objects

http://www.seds.org/messier/photos/photos.html

 

SEDS Messier object database

http://www.seds.org/messier/indexes.html

 

Home pages for IRAF a common data reduction software package

http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf-homepage.html/

 

AstroWeb from the Space Telescope Science Institute (Hubble)

http://www.stsci.edu/science/net-resources.html

 

The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

http://adswww.harvard.edu/

 

Sky View

http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/skyview.html

 

The Astrophysical Journal online (APJ)

http://www.aas.org/Epubs/eapjl/eapjl.html