Where is MONSOON Now?

MONSOON is getting a lot of telescope time. Newfirm is on the 4M telescope over 50% of the time. WHIRC and the Bench Spectrograph are on the telescopes a combined total of more than 50% of the time. The CTIO 1.5M Eschelle Spectrograph Detector Controller Upgrade is due late 2009.

There is a new, improved, version of MONSOON (nicknamed Torrent) which is in the testing stage of the Power Supply and Local Control Board (LCB). For more information on Torrent, click here.

NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.