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.