Remote observing with the 30-m radiotelescope

Walter Brunswig; Albrecht Sievers; Clemens Thum; Wolfgang Wild

doi:10.1117/12.387216

2 June 2000 Remote observing with the 30-m radiotelescope

Walter Brunswig, Albrecht Sievers, Clemens Thum, Wolfgang Wild

Proceedings Volume 4011, Advanced Global Communications Technologies for Astronomy; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.387216
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2000, Munich, Germany

Abstract

The IRAM 30 m telescope is located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, 50 km to the south of the city of Granada/Spain, at an altitude of 2900 m. More than 100 scientific projects are executed every year by about 200 visiting observers. Since 1990, observations can be made from the Granada office in a way very much like on the telescope. Since 1998, such remote observing is also possible from the IRAM headquarters in Grenoble, France. About 5 percent of the time the telescope is controlled from these remote stations. We plan to install additional remote observing stations in order to facilitate a more flexible telescope scheduling.

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Walter Brunswig, Albrecht Sievers, Clemens Thum, and Wolfgang Wild "Remote observing with the 30-m radiotelescope", Proc. SPIE 4011, Advanced Global Communications Technologies for Astronomy, (2 June 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.387216

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