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General Background
The AAO makes available a range of manuals describing the AAT, its
instruments
and their operation. Most manuals were originally distributed in, and
are
still only available
in, hardcopy form. The AAO retains copies of many of these manuals and,
whenever
possible, will distribute these on request. However, in many cases only
single
copies remain at the Observatory. Visiting astronomers are welcome to
peruse
these, and make their own copies, however the Observatory cannot
distribute
copies of these older manuals. In recent years, more and more manuals
have
been made available as either
Postscript files archived on-line, or as WWW-based manuals.
In the past AAO manuals were assigned a unique number (either
User Manual "UM" or Technical Manual "TM" numbers). Technical
manuals are generally
aimed at the telescope's engineering staff - of these only the few
which
are conceivably of interest to astronomers are listed. WWW-based
documentation pages are rarely assigned manual numbers anymore.
AAO manuals that are available can be found listed by :-
- History
- - which manuals have recently be made available, and
which ones are obselete?
- Manual Master List
- - a "master" list of
AAO manuals, their availability, and (where relevant) their
numbers.
Should you wish to obtain a
hardcopy version of one of the available
AAO manuals
you can request one from the AAO Librarian
(lib@aaoepp.aao.gov.au or by
regular
mail - see Contacting
the AAO).
Please specify the title and UM or TM number of the manual you are
interested
in.
The AAO astronomer currently responsible for on-line
documentation
is Chris
Tinney (cgt@aaoepp.aao.gov.au),
who will gratefully receive any suggestions as to how these pages can
be
improved.
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