Scheduling and executing phase II observing scripts on the Hobby*Eberly telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3349, Issue , 1998, Pages 143-150

  Gaffney, Niall I ^a   Cornell, Mark E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Observing scripts; Planning tools; Queue scheduling; Service observing

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; BUILDINGS; HALL EFFECT DEVICES; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; QUEUEING THEORY; SCHEDULING; TELESCOPES;

DATA QUALITY (DQ); OBSERVING SCRIPTS; PHASE II; PLANNING TOOLS; PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS (PI); QUEUE SCHEDULING; SERVICE OBSERVING;

RADIO TELESCOPES;

EID: 58749116993     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316481     Document Type: Conference Paper

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