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Workshop

Observatories Forum 2025

September 23, 2025

When: September 23, 2025 9:00AM
Where: Santa Barbara Natural History Museum

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

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