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The associate principal astronomer telescope operations model
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Edgington, Will Swanson, Keith Bresina, John Henry, Greg Drummond, Mark |
| Copyright Year | 1994 |
| Description | This paper outlines a new telescope operations model that is intended to achieve low operating costs with high operating efficiency and high scientific productivity. The model is based on the existing Principal Astronomer approach used in conjunction with ATIS, a language for commanding remotely located automatic telescopes. This paper introduces the notion of an Associate Principal Astronomer, or APA. At the heart of the APA is automatic observation loading and scheduling software, and it is this software that is expected to help achieve efficient and productive telescope operations. The purpose of the APA system is to make it possible for astronomers to submit observation requests to and obtain resulting data from remote automatic telescopes, via the Internet, in a highly-automated way that minimizes human interaction with the system and maximizes the scientific return from observing time. |
| File Size | 725353 |
| Page Count | 10 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19950017323 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t7dr7s73s |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1994-10-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astronomy Telescopes Productivity Internets Scheduling Low Cost Operating Costs Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
