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Dome C site testing: implications for science and technology of future telescopes Proceedings of the 3rd ARENA Conference, EAS Publications Series, 2010 (Ref: 14029)
Category 3: Conference paper

Site testing data provides an essential part of the justi¯cation … for funding any new astronomical facility by de¯ning the technological … design and determining the telescope performance, thus allowing the … scienti¯c objectives to be prioritised.

PILOT - where to next from here? Proceedings of the 3rd ARENA Conference, EAS Publications Series, 2010 (Ref: 14021)
Category 3: Conference paper

The Phase A design study of PILOT|the Path nder for an … International Large Optical Telescope|has demonstrated that a wide- … eld 2.5 m optical/IR telescope can be constructed at Concordia for a … reasonable cost. There are no technical \show stoppers"…

Running PILOT: operational challenges and plans for an Antarctic Observatory Proceedings of SPIE 7016, 70160G1-12, 2008 (Ref: 13770)
Category 3: Conference paper

We highlight the operational challenges and planned solutions faced by an optical observatory taking advantage of the … superior astronomical observing potential of the Antarctic plateau. Unique operational aspects of an Antarctic optical … observatory arise from its remoteness…

PILOT: a wide-field telescope for the Antarctic plateau Proceedings of SPIE 7012, 70124F1-9, 2008 (Ref: 13756)
Category 3: Conference paper

PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed Australian/European optical/infrared … telescope for Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau, with target first light in 2012. The telescope is 2.4m diameter, with … overall focal ratio f/10, and a 1 degree field-of-view.

Proposed intrumentation for PILOT Proceedings of SPIE 7014, 70144N1-9, 2008 (Ref: 13757)
Category 3: Conference paper

PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed Australian/European optical/infrared … telescope for Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau, with target first light in 2012. The proposed telescope is 2.4m diameter, with overall focal ratio f/10…

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