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Conditions on the Plateau
A syndication of weather from telescopes on the plateau & DIMM seeing measurements
Telescopes
Instruments
74" / 1.9m - "Instrument Selector"
Lesedi HR Spectrograph (name TBD)
Queue scheduling
Observation requests for Lesedi+Mookodi
Instrument Change Notes
Telescope Emergency Communication System (TECS)
Hosted Instrument and Telescopes
We host a number of telescopes and instruments on-site. Here is a list (updated 28/Jan/2015) as well as relevant information about the main contact people, emails, Skype (if available) and anything else we know about them.
Xamidimura (SuperWASP)
The Xamidimura telescopes are housed in the enclosure for the (now defunct) SuperWASP instrument.
List : astro.wasp@keele.ac.uk
Technical contact:
Dr Pierre Maxted Keele University, UK p.maxted@keele.ac.uk +44 1782 733457 Skype: pierre_maxted
Seismograph
Seismo's home page
List: seismo@list.saao.ac.za
Technical contact:
Carl Ebeling cebeling@ucsd.edu 1-858-822-4713 No Skype
Administrative contact:
Peter Davis pdavis@ucsd.edu 1-858-534-2839 No Skype
German Research Centre for GeoSciences (GFZ)
Technical contact:
Hartmut Pflug hartmut.pflug@gfz-potsdam.de +49 331 288 1137 no Skype
Administrative contact (accounting officer):
Christoph Förste christoph.foerste@gfz-potsdam.de +49 331 288 1737 No Skype
