Using all sky cameras to determine cloud statistics for the thirty meter telescope candidate sites

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7012, Issue , 2008, Pages

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

^a TMT Observatory Corp   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

All sky camera; Clear sky; Cloud statistics; site; Thirty meter telescope

Indexed keywords

ALL SKY CAMERA; CLEAR SKY; CLOUD STATISTICS; SITE; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; CAMERAS; METRIC SYSTEM;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 66749175228     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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