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Prospero Support Services

Welcome to the Prospero Support Services homepage at the Ohio State University.

These webpages provide Prospero users with news, information, and access to the online instrument document at OSU.


Online Documents

Prospero Overview

Online Prospero Manuals:

Version 4.3 [OSIRIS at CTIO] (1999 Aug 2)

Version 4.6 [MOSAIC/TIFKAM & CCDS at MDM & KPNO] (1999 Aug 2)

Observer's Guides (updated 2001 Nov 3)

Instrument Quick Reference Cards (updated 2000 Mar 10)

Sample Instrument Status Windows

Current Versions in Use (updated 2000 Feb 7)


Instrument Manuals

These links lead to online manuals for instruments that use Prospero:

OSIRIS

TIFKAM (aka MOSAIC or ONIS)

ANDICAM & DANDICAM

CCDS


Additional Information

These links lead to technical documents for use primarily by support personnel. Observers may find them useful on occasion, but not all are relevant to all sites (only come here if directed to by support personnel).

Instrument Technical Help Manuals

Caliban FITS Data-Transfer Daemon

AutoLog data logging program


If you have questions or comments, please contact the Prospero Email Line:
prospero@astronomy.ohio-state.edu
Watch this space for more services and information.

Updated: 2001 Nov 3