rotselogo.gif (2788 bytes)

Operations


Realtime status reports:

Click on a telescope for the current status:
Local Weather Local Weather Local Weather Local Weather

ROTSE-III Thumbnail Viewer:

Pick one of these:
Image Thumbs
Status Monitor Graphs 		select tlas that
start with:
Sort by: File name Image time
Each day, for each telescope, we produce a web page that gives an overview for the telescope's performance that day. Use this form to view these summary pages.
Scope: Year: Month: Day:

Other information of interest:
A tabulated log of the exposure of each telescope each night.
A table of burst alerts that ROTSE-III telescopes have received so far.
Each image ROTSE-III records is saved as a small JPEG file, in addition to the FITS data files used for the production analysis. These images can be viewed here through your browser to evalute performance, weather and image quality. Please pick which telescopes and which days you are interested in examining, and when you press "extract", a page will be created where you can view the images.

Each night, as data are taken, certain diagnostic parameters for image quality are extracted and preserved in four graphs. Together, these graphs provide a record of instrument performance for the night. Today's graph can be accessed through the status monitor buttons above, but if you wish to see past nights' records, you can access them through the form below. The four graphs show the median FWHM of the image as a function of temperature, the limiting magnitude as a function of time, the deviation of the actual pointing from where it was instructed to point, and the FWHM as a function of elevation angle (in the last two graphs, the most recent data point is shown in red).

Find out more about the ROTSE-III telescope.