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Revision as of 18:57, 21 February 2024

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Welcome to the SAAO Telescope Operations Wiki (TOPS Wiki)


Conditions on the Plateau

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

SALT Weather

ATLAS weather

Telescopes

74" / 1.9m

40" / 1.0m

Lesedi

IRSF

PRIME

Maintenance Log

Instruments

Data Transfer

74" / 1.9m - "Instrument Selector"

SPUPNIC

SHOC

STE3

Sibonise

HIPPO

Mookodi

Lesedi HR Spectrograph (name TBD)

GIRAFFE

Instrument Change Notes

74 Inch

40 Inch

1 m

SiTech

WINCAM

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.

Xamidimura technical notes

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)

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