Director's Report . The mission of MSSSO: . ... fulfilment of the potential of all Observatories' staff and students . ... The increase in 1997 was principally the opening of the Stromlo Exploratory. ... MSSSO Annual Report 1997 . ... At the request of the Academy's National Committee for Astronomy, which is chaired by the Director, the Australian Research Council (ARC) offered to fill the 5% vacancy, an offer which was accepted subject to continuing inaction by Chile on its financial obligations. ...

... 10-Nov-2002 14:33 . ... 1.2M . ... 27-Jul-2003 00:17 . ... 05-Aug-2002 22:43 . ...

... ARC 3.5m | ARCES (Echelle) . ... 2.3 Taking Echelle Exposures . ... The ARC Echelle Spectrograph (ARCES) is a high resolution, cross-dispersed visible light spectrograph. ... Since the echelle calibrations are internal, calibration data can be taken even while other instruments are being used on-sky. ... Flat fields taken with ARCES require multiple exposures because the combination of lamp spectrum and instrument sensitivity yields far higher count rates in the red than in the UV/blue. ... Slit . ...

Telescope Mounts . ... I just collected all the information I used in considering what kind of telescope mount I wanted and made a web page. ... A very important aspect to using a telescope is the mount. ... An altazimuth mount is a design to hold the OTA and allow the user to guide the scope by using two motions. ... The newest GOTO telescopes can do all of this without equatorial mounts and polar alignment because the computer can be programmed to know the position of the scope by using guide stars. ...