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Conditions on the Plateau

A syndication of weather from telescopes on the plateau & DIMM seeing measurements

SALT Weather

Telescopes

74" / 1.9m

40" / 1.0m

Lesedi

IRSF

PRIME

Maintenance Log

Instruments

Data Transfer

SPUPNIC

SHOC

STE3

Sibonise

HIPPO

Mookodi

Lesedi HR Spectrograph (name TBD)

GIRAFFE

Instrument Change Notes

74 Inch

40 Inch

1 m

SiTech

WINCAM

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 same enclosure used for the (now defunct) SuperWASP instrument.

Technical contact:

Dr Pierre Maxted
Keele University, UK
E-mail: p.maxted@keele.ac.uk
Tel: +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)

GFZ home page

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