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X-WR-CALNAME: IAC Talks: Open Astronomy Seminars
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CREATED:2016-11-23T12:30:00+00:00
X-WR-CALDESC: IAC Talks upcomming talks
SUMMARY:Observing with the SARA remotely operated telescopes
DESCRIPTION:Observing with the SARA remotely operated telescopes\nDr. Javie
 r Licandro\n\nThe IAC is part of the  Southeastern Association for Re
 search in  Astronomy (SARA), a consortium of colleges and universities in 
 the US  partnered with Lowell Observatory, the Chilean National Telescope 
  Allocation Committee, and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias.  In t
 his seminar I will describe the remote facilities operated by the  SARA ob
 servatories that comprise a 0.96m telescope at Kitt Peak,  Arizona; a 0.6m
  instrument on Cerro Tololo, Chile; and the 1m Jacobus  Kapteyn Telescope 
 at the ORM. All are operated using standard VNC or  Radmin protocols commu
 nicating with on-site PCs. Remote operation offers  considerable flexibili
 ty in scheduling, allowing long-term observational  cadences difficult to 
 achieve with classical observing at remote  facilities. Multiple observers
  at different locations can share a  telescope for training, educational u
 se, or collaborative research  programs. Each telescope has a CCD system f
 or optical imaging, using  thermoelectric cooling to avoid the need for fr
 equent local service, and  a second CCD for offset guiding. SARA Kitt Peak
  telescope also has a  fiber-fed echelle spectrograph. Switching between i
 maging and  spectroscopy is very rapid, so a night can easily accommodate 
 mixed  observing modes.  The IAC astronomers started to use SARA facilitie
 s since early 2016 and  a new call for proposals is open. I will present s
 ome early results from  IAC’s observational programs and discuss the
  present status of the  facilities and the experience obtained by the IAC 
 users that could help  new potential observers to prepare their own propos
 als.
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