Spike for Subaru
The Subaru 8m telescope
is being developed by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
The Space ScienceTelescope Institute (STScI) is under contract to
provide both long range planning short term scheduling software.
Subaru is using the same Ground Based Scheduling Engine that is being used
by ESO for the VLT. You can see a top level description of that project
under ESO/VLT.
Subaru has requested two major extensions to the Ground Based Scheduler.
- 1) The insertion of Mirror Adjustment activities. These are inserted
after slews where a large elevation change has occurred and periodically
based upon a user specified interval.
- 2) The optimization of external and internal calibrations in the Short
Term Scheduler. The idea is that if two or more observations can
share calibration observations, then Spike will only schedule a minimum
number of calibration observations that are needed. This project is
currently under development. We are collaborting with with ESO/VLT.
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