Remote observing with the Keck telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3112, Issue , 1997, Pages 99-110

  Conrad, Albert ^a   Gathright, John ^a   Kibrick, Robert I ^b  

^a W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Remote observing; Remote operation of telescopes

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; DATA COMPRESSION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELESCOPES;

IMAGE READOUT; KECK TELESCOPES; NETWORK BANDWIDTHS; NETWORKING ARCHITECTURES; REMOTE OBSERVING; REMOTE OPERATION OF TELESCOPES; REMOTE SITES;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 58749112780     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.278817     Document Type: Conference Paper

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