Using All Sky Cameras to determine cloud statistics for the Thirty Meter Telescope candidate sites

Warren Skidmore; Matthias Schöck; Eugene Magnier; David Walker; Dan Feldman; Reed Riddle; Sebastian Els; Tony Travouillon; Edison Bustos; Juan Seguel; Joselino Vasquez; Robert Blum; Paul Gillett; Brooke Gregory

doi:10.1117/12.788141

10 July 2008 Using All Sky Cameras to determine cloud statistics for the Thirty Meter Telescope candidate sites

Warren Skidmore, Matthias Schöck, Eugene Magnier, David Walker, Dan Feldman, Reed Riddle, Sebastian Els, Tony Travouillon, Edison Bustos, Juan Seguel, Joselino Vasquez, Robert Blum, Paul Gillett, Brooke Gregory

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Proceedings Volume 7012, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II; 701224 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788141
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

All Sky Cameras were deployed at all Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) candidate sites. The images gathered by these cameras were used to assess the cloud statistics for each site. We describe two methods that were developed to do this, a manual method based on inspection of blue and red movies, and an automated method based on photometric analysis of the images.

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Warren Skidmore, Matthias Schöck, Eugene Magnier, David Walker, Dan Feldman, Reed Riddle, Sebastian Els, Tony Travouillon, Edison Bustos, Juan Seguel, Joselino Vasquez, Robert Blum, Paul Gillett, and Brooke Gregory "Using All Sky Cameras to determine cloud statistics for the Thirty Meter Telescope candidate sites", Proc. SPIE 7012, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II, 701224 (10 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788141

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