Seeing and Image Quality at the William Herschel Telescope


HAP People Staff from the ING and elsewhere working on the HAP  are :
 
Richard Wilson, based at Cambridge University.  Richard is project scientist for the JOSE-AO project (seeing evaluation for adaptive optics at the WHT). He contributed the JOSE wavefront sensor results and analysis shown here, and wrote the text for these pages.
Webpage: Richard Wilson:
Email:  rww@mrao.cam.ac.uk
Chris Packham, Support Astronomer at the ING.  Chris has been the project scientist since joining the ING in early 1997 and in mid 1998 Chris took over as project manager.  The HAP team has
four key science members and is supplemented by several engineering staff.
Web page: Chris Packham:
Email: cp@ing.iac.es
Neil O'Mahoney, Telescope Operator at the ING, and Graduate Student.  Main contributions have been to observe and analyse data in JOSE/DIMM and AUX/DIMM experiments.  He has presented project results at IAC Tenerife and Calar Alto. 


Marco Azzaro, Telescope Operator at ING. 
Responsible  for the characterisation of many 
aspects of the temperature differences 
affecting WHT seeing.  He has produced data 
for the ING Meteorological Report which has been
used in this programme.
Web page: Marco Azzaro:
Email: azzaro@ing.iac.es

 

Peter Sorensen, Telescope Operator at the ING.  
 since 1996. Responsible for the development 
of the WWW interface to the ING weather station. With this interface, it is possible to monitor the current weather situation and statistics across the net..
Web page:  Peter Sorensen:
Email:  pms@ing.iac.es

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