Victor Blanco 4-m Telescope

The Víctor M. Blanco 4-m Telescope was commissioned in 1974. It is a near twin of the Mayall 4-m telescope on Kitt Peak. The wide field of the Blanco 4-m telescope uses the wide field camera, DECam, and the low-intermediate resolution spectrograph COSMOS, to complement the high resolution capabilities of SOAR and GEMINI.                   

• Instruments for all CTIO telescopes, including Blanco
• MASS-DIMM Seeing Monitor and local weather (redirects to ctio4l)
• Observing Schedules
• Realtime webcams, outside, inside, and looking up.
• Night reports by telescope and calendar
• Remote observing

Internal only telemetry plots (depend on availability of DECam):

• Lowdome and above mirror temperatures, last 3 days
• Telescope Pointing, last 24 hours
• Airmass, last 24 hours
• Pointing errors, last 24 hours
• Ellipticity and whisker, last 24 hours
• Whisker and seeing, last 24 hours
• All the above in one page