Stone Edge Observatory (SEO)

Table of Contents

• Stone Edge Observatory
• SEO Observing Calendar
• Downloading Data from SEO
• Reducing SEO Data

This is THE main telescope you will use in this course. Information on the telescope is at Stone Edge Observatory:

This page has links to all public pages including links to telescope information, data access and tutorials. You can find many of these links directly on the Stars Server. We also have quick tutorials on using the SEO Queue instructions and for real time observing on SEO Slack the Hitchhiker's Guide to SEO Observing or the shorter SEO Slack guide.

Additional information on the SEO telescope, the CCD camera (Proline PL230) and the CMOS camera (SBIG Aluma AC4040) can be found on the SEO FAQ page.

SEO Observing Calendar

To add the SEO calendar to your own calendar, use this link! https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/[email protected]

Downloading Data from SEO

Most of the data is on the Stars Server. Information on the file organization on the stars server is on the Project page under Guide to the Stars Server.

Access to data from Unix terminal

You have FTP and WGET access to STARS. You can find details on using this interface at Guide to the Stars Server -> Remote Access / File Transfer. See information below where on the server to find the data.

Access through FTP Clients

You can use Cyberduck (Mac) or WinSCP (Windows) to access the files via FTP. It's anonymous loging and you can only download files, not upload files to Stars.

Access through STARS FITS Viewer / Direct Download

Various options:

• Access FITS Viewer at: stars.uchicago.edu/fitsview24
• Access the raw folder structure at: stars.uchicago.edu/images/StoneEdge/0.5meter/2024
• Download entire folders:
  • Use WGET as described in Guide to the Stars Server -> Remote Access / File Transfer.
  • From python use SEO UChicago > Pipeline > DataDownload.ipynb: Open the ipynp with google colab or download it to your computer and run it there.

Look at the Guide to the Stars Server for more information on STARS and the FITS Viewer.

SEO Telescope Data

The Stoneedge Observatory telescope data is available:

• For Live observations: This is where you find files observed with on the Slack channels Itzamna / Ixchel.

  • On the FITS viewer under stars.uchicago.edu/fitsview24 . There is a FITS viewer for each year for which there's data
  • As raw and reduced files under stars.uchicago.edu/images/StoneEdge/0.5meter
  • If you log in (see information above) under /data/images/StoneEdge/0.5meter/Year/Date/Observation/File.fits
  • Info on Observations has graphs on objects / bands and data quality for each night.

• For Queue observations:

  • On the FITS viewer under stars.uchicago.edu/queue
  • As raw files under stars.uchicago.edu/images/queue
  • If you log in (see information above) under /data/images/queue/username/observation/File.fits

Reducing SEO Data

The SEO data is automatically reduced using the SEO Image Pipeline. Additional information on the pipeline and how to run it is in the Pipeline User Manual.

You can run the pipeline on your computer or get an account on StarBase. Colab notebooks on how to run the pipeline are on the UChicago SEO google drive at SEO UChicago > PipeLine