Remote Observing with RXTE
The RXTE SOF provides the capability of remotely monitoring your
observation through a selected subset of the tools that
are used by SOF staff themselves. With these tools, as
well as monitoring your observation, you can also
send data and plots to yourself via email in ASCII
and PostScript formats respectively.
Our previous version of remote observing, which involved
SOF staff remotely displaying a program on your computer, has
now been completely replaced by a fully automatic version with
a WWW interface. To be able to use this you will need the
"access key" that is automatically sent to you when the short
term schedule is generated.
Public-owned TOOs may be observed using this service by using the 'publictoo' as the access key.
Additional information includes:
- A poster paper describing
PCA science monitoring with examples, by Barry Giles (PostScript).
- The "man" page for pcaRtClient
- A manual for
Science Monitoring (originally written for use by SOF staff, PostScript
format).
- Science Monitoring Design Document.
See also:
Maintained by: Robin Corbet
For questions about scheduling of RXTE observations please send email to
xteplan@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov
If you have other questions about RXTE, please send email to one of our
help desks.
Responsible NASA Official:
Phil Newman
Web Curator:
Robin Corbet
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