Fwd: Telescopes from Afar Conference - Feb 28 - Mar 3, 2011 - Big Island, Hawaii

[Rob Seaman]

FYI

This is the conference that Russ Genet and Josh Walawender were advertising at the San Diego SPIE.  The Marriott is next door to the Hilton Waikoloa that hosted the SPIE and ADASS in years gone by.  When I stayed at the Marriott during one or the other of those meetings, it was hosting a ukulele conference at the same time.  The Telescopes from Afar Conference will be great if it's half as entertaining :-)

Rob
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> From: Christian Veillet <veillet at cfht.hawaii.edu>
> Date: September 21, 2010 2:44:50 PM MST
> To: rseaman at noao.edu
> Subject: Telescopes from Afar Conference - Feb 28 - Mar 3, 2011 - Big Island, Hawaii
> Reply-To: tfaloc at cfht.hawaii.edu
> 
> 
>     Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope is pleased to announce
> 
>     Telescopes from Afar
> 
>     An international conference on remotely operated, automated or
>     ground telescopes
> 
>     February 28 - March 3, 2011, Waikoloa Beach Marriott, Hawai'i
> 
>     Fully robotic observatories have been in continuous operation for a
>     quarter century. Although initially confined to smaller telescopes,
>     many large observatories are now being operated remotely and even
>     autonomously without staff on-site.
> 
>     The goal of this conference is to provide an opportunity to share
>     information on the advancements and developments in the areas of
>     remote observing, remote operation, and automated local and global
>     networking of all sizes of observatories. The conference will
>     explore management, operational, and engineering considerations.
>     Participants will exchange ideas and experiences with designing and
>     operating robotic observatories and retrofitting existing
>     observatories for remote and autonomous operations.
> 
>     The topics for the sessions will be influenced by the abstracts that
>     are submitted; however, we envision the subjects may include:
> 
>     • History and overview
> 
>     • Economics and motivation
> 
>     • Examples of robotic observatories
> 
>     • Examples of retrofitting existing observatories for remote operation
> 
>     • Target selection, scheduling and queue observing
> 
>     • Event alerting and telescope networks
> 
>     • Data handling, reduction, and verification
> 
>     • Instrumentation
> 
>     • Monitoring and control of observatory systems
> 
>     • Weather and environmental sensing
> 
>     • Safety
> 
>     The members of the CFHT staff, along with members of the Maunakea
>     astronomical community, look forward to welcoming you to Hawaii and
>     sharing with you the many aspects of this advancement in
>     astronomical observations.
> 
>     For more information on "Telescopes from Afar" (registration,
>     abstract submission, accommodations, ...), please visit the
>     conference web site
> 
>     http://tfa.cfht.hawaii.edu/
> 
>     
> 
>     Aloha,
> 
>     The Program Organizing Committee
> 
>     Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) - Big Island, Hawai'i
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