Telescopes in the world

Lison MaloStudent CRAQ workshop

Telescopes

CFHT** (Infrared + optical) DAO** IRTF** (Infrared) Gemini** (optical + infrared) NOAO (North+South, Keck, Subaru) ESO** SAAO (SALT+others) San Petro Martir X-ray (Chandra) Radio? JCMT

**: remote or queue observing

Small automatic telescopes

OGLE (optical gravitational lensing experiment) UBVRI ASAS (All sky automated survey) V and I bands Skynet (Prompt) REM (Rapid Eye Mount) Las Cumbres observatories

Phase I: Writting a proposal

When: before the end of September or end of March Where: Interface web or latex template (check web sites) How: - Science justification + reference - Technical justification - List of Targets (check archive PIT_GEMINI) - Telescope justification

Phase 2: Setup the observations

Target selection (depends on schedule) Exposure time + overheads = Signal to noise ratio Program description Contact your instrument scientist Finder charts

Gemini Phase II:

ESO Phase II:

Phase 3: Data and Reduction

Retrieve your data Reduction package from the observatory Ask students, post-doc (list available)

CADC

Archive

CADC VizieR+ESO Gemini UKIDSS ING archive GATOR SDSS NED (galactic)

Gemini archive

Aladin

Questions?

Radio & X-rays Others observatories X-rays: XMM -> proposal deadline: October Chandra -> proposal deadline: Mars

liens

http://archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/ingarch/ingarchold.html http://ogle.astrouw.edu.pl/ http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/asas/?page=main http://skynet.unc.edu/ http://www.rem.inaf.it/ http://www.astrossp.unam.mx/indexspm.html http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/index.html