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Virtual Visits to Astronomical Observatories

M. Serra-Ricart (mserra@iac.es)

L. Martínez (lms@iac.es)

L. Cuesta (lcc@iac.es)

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

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Canarian Observatories. Location.

Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos, National Park La Caldera de TaburienteLa Caldera de Taburiente,La Palma, Spain.

Observatorio del Teide, National Park El TeideEl Teide,Tenerife, Spain.

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Observatorio del Teide

Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos

26 TELESCOPE INSTALATIONS

16 SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS

19 COUNTRIES

Managed by IAC.Managed by IAC.

Decisions through CCI.Decisions through CCI.

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Outreach activities. Observatory visits.

IAC Goal Outreach activities Observatory visits.

Every year more than 10,000 people visit both Observatories, but:1) the visitors cannot enter to telescope domestelescope domes due to security reasonssecurity reasons or because the telescope is operatingoperating (solar installations during day time).

2) the numbernumber of visitors is lowlow and limitedlimited.

1) Visitors “enter” to telescope domes and they see instrumentation .2) Worldwide visitors only limited by Observatory internet link.

Virtual VisitVirtual Visit approach solve previous problems.

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Virtual Visit tests in Observatorio del Teide. Needs.

1) WEBcams.

2) Dedicated Software.

3) Internet link.

- 3 fixed IP-cameras3 fixed IP-cameras (axis 2100) max resolution 640x480 pixels max fps 5

- 10 pan/tild/zomm10 pan/tild/zomm IP-cameras (axis 2130). max resolution 704-480 pixels max fps 30

-3 areas.AdministratorAdministrator area (Flash-Actionscript-PHP-MySQL).AstronomerAstronomer area (Flash-Actionscript-PHP-MySQL).WebWeb area (PHP-MySQL).

-Data rate is 20Kbytes/s/pax for 50 pax 1 Mbyte/s

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2) Dedicated Software. Administrator area. Camera definition.

For all the cameras fixed dimentions 352x240 pixels

Virtual Visit tests in Observatorio del Teide. Needs.

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2) Dedicated Software. Administrator area. View definitions.

Virtual Visit tests in Observatorio del Teide. Needs.

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2) Dedicated Software. Administrator area. Astronomer definitions.

Virtual Visit tests in Observatorio del Teide. Needs.

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2) Dedicated Software. Administrator area. Visit definitions.

Virtual Visit tests in Observatorio del Teide. Needs.

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2) Dedicated Software. Astronomer area. Internal visitors.

Virtual Visit tests in Observatorio del Teide. Needs.

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2) Dedicated Software. Web area. External visitors.

Virtual Visit tests in Observatorio del Teide. Needs.

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2) Dedicated Software. Web area. A new problem.

Approachs:

-Night telescopesNight telescopes. 1- External photometer if there is light go on…2- web order (set in view definitions menu) lights turn on…

3- after 1 minute lights turn off.

-Solar telescopesSolar telescopes. Open domes. 1- Internal photometer if there is NO light go on…2- web order lights turn on…

3- after 1 minute lights turn off.

-Solar telescopesSolar telescopes. Closed domes infrared webcams.

Virtual Visit tests in Observatorio del Teide. Needs.