Observing at Blanco

Technical Information:

• Optical Properties
• Instruments Available at the Blanco Telescope
• TCS Coordinates File Format
• Horizon Limits
• A note on Blanco pointing
• Thermal issues - Staff Only (Internal Access Only)
• TelOps Daily Procedures - Staff Only (Internal Access Only)
• Old Blanco Plate Logs
• IMAN Image Analyzer - Old Info

Observing Resources:

• Observing Schedules
• Realtime webcams, outside, inside, and looking up.
• Night reports by telescope and calendar
• Remote observing

Telemetry plots etc. (Internal - only available on site):

• Blanco Environment Control System (ECS, ctio4l) (Internal Access Only)
• MASS-DIMM Seeing Monitor and local weather (redirects to ctio4l) (Internal Access Only)
• Lowdome and above mirror temperatures, last 3 days (Internal Access Only)
• Telescope Pointing, last 24 hours (Internal Access Only)
• Airmass, last 24 hours (Internal Access Only)
• Pointing errors, last 24 hours (Internal Access Only)
• Ellipticity and whisker, last 24 hours (Internal Access Only)
• Whisker and seeing, last 24 hours (Internal Access Only)