Welcome to the SAAO Telescope Operations Wiki (TOPS Wiki)

A syndication of weather from telescopes on the plateau

SALT Weather

Seeing

TimDimm; the current sky image. Also in Movie format!

74" / 1.9m

40" / 1.0m

Lesedi

IRSF

PRIME

Maintenance Log

Data Transfer

SPUPNIC

SHOC

STE3

Sibonise

HIPPO

Mookodi (spectrograph and imager)

Lesedi HR Spectrograph (name TBD)

GIRAFFE

74 Inch

40 Inch

1 m

SiTech

WINCAM

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.

SuperWASP

SuperWASP (Xami di mura)

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