Welcome to the Observing Assistant page, the OA team is formed by  Ken Barton, John McDonald, David Woodworth and Marie-Claire Hainaut. We intend to gather here our favorite links at work, and any other that might be of use to the observers.

CFHT

• Tools and Information for CFHT Observers
• CFHT Observing Schedule
• Operations/Observing Schedule (PDF format)
• Astronomical Calendar for Mauna Kea (1999)
• Observing Runs Communications(Local Access Only)
• Liz Bryson's Electronic Ephemeris(Links to different on-line Ephemeris')

ASTRONOMY

Calendar, Sky Maps,...

• CADC Archives and Tools
• Digitized Sky Survey Search
• Astronomical Sky Calendar

You can browse the Universe at the Henrietta Leavitt Flat Screen Planetarium.

WEATHER

Most used satellite images

• IR image (updated hourly)
• Full disk GOES IR image
• Hawaii IR MPEG movie (updated hourly)

 

 

and, if the above sites are down... try one of these.

• USA IR West (GOES 9) (updated every 15 minutes)
• National Weather Service

Direct pictures from Mauna Kea

• Mauna Kea south flank, from Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (updated every 10 minutes)
• Looking southwest from UKIRT
• Looking out from JCMT (cameras direction is random)

• Current UKIRT weather (15 minutes updates)
• CFHT and Gemini's Weather Tower Data (Realtime)
• CFHT Weather Datalogger (Realtime)

Forecasts

• Mauna Kea Forecast Center - Forecasts for Mauna Kea Observatories
• Hilo Weather Forecast
• Hawaii State Forecast Discussion

More Interesting Links!!

Other Observatories

• Mauna Kea Observatories
• European Southern Observatory
• NOAOand Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory
• Space Telescope Science Institute
• Multiple Mirror Telescope
• Vatican Observatory

Astronomical groups, conferences,meetings...

• International Astronomy Meetings - a list prepared by Liz Bryson
• International Astronomical Union
• American Astronomical Society
• and a neat amateur site Peoria Astronomical Society

More Astronomy on the Web!

• AstroWeb
• Informations and On-line Data in Astronomy
• NASA Astrophysics Data System
• Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
• Centre de Donnees Astronomiques de Strasbourg

Any comment?

Last update: 02/16/99 (by D.Woodworth)

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