The Observatories Forum is a workshop series designed to bring together developers and engineers from different facilities spanning a range of wavelengths, with developers from the science community. The goal is to share experience, tools, challenges and plans, particularly those associated with enabling time domain and multi-messenger astrophysics.
This event is part of our AEON+ Program and full information can be found on the AEON+ website.
This event will be fully hybrid, with options to participate in person or via a virtual platform.
Topics will include:
- Observatory software and its challenges
- Including proposal/observation request systems, scheduling, observatory & instrument operations, observatory status, data pipelines and archiving
- Astronomer-side software tools and challenges
- Including TOM/marshal systems, community messaging & coordination services, visibility tools, signal-to-noise/exposure time calculators etc
- Recent and planned development
- Towards generalized APIs for proposal, observation requests across wavelengths