Remote observing with the nickel telescope at Lick observatory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7016, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Grigsby, Bryant ^a   Chloros, Konstantinos ^a   Gates, John ^a   Deich, William T S ^a   Gates, Elinor ^a   Kibrick, Robert ^a  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Observing policies; Remote observing; Subscription rate; Telescope controls; VNC

Indexed keywords

HAMILTONS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; KECK OBSERVATORY; LICK OBSERVATORY; REMOTE OBSERVING; TELESCOPE CONTROL; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER CONTROL; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; ULTRASONICS;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 73449110570     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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