ORAC
ORAC, the Observatory Reduction and Acquisition Control project for UKIRT, had the aim of increasing the observing efficiency and publication rate of UKIRT. It has since been expanded for use on JCMT. ORAC consists of four main systems:
- A new observation preparation tool that allows astronomers to prepare their observations in detail before travelling to the telescope and therefor save time at the telescope.
- An observatory control system for efficient observing enabling more observations (on average) to be done per night.
- A pipelined automatic data reduction system that keeps up with the rate of data acquisition.
- A queue scheduled observing system.
This purely software project is a joint venture with the JAC software group. Delivery was phased starting in late 1999 and a fully operational system was released in Autumn 2000.
For more technical information on ORAC please visit the ORAC project pages.
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