EOS Reports and Manuals

Dome Site Inspection, June 2007
Dome Design Analysis, August 2005
Dome Cooling Kit Manual, June 2005
Dome Level 2 Support Design Notes, November 2005
Dome Vignetting Report, September 2005
Airstack (Chiller) Service Manual for Dome
Icestorm Technical Description (November 2006, 144 pgs) Drawing 1 Drawing 2 Drawing 3 Drawing 4
Dome Software Interface Design Description, October 2006
Dome Operations Manual, October 2006
Dome Mechanical Maintenance Manual, October 2006
Electrical Drawings A3 Electrical Drawings A4

Dome Construction Movie (dvd format)

APF Dome Cam -- See the erection of the APF Enclosure before your very eyes!

Finished Shutter Frame

Dome Conceptual Design Review, May 2005: PowerPoint 1, PowerPoint 2

Earthtech Site Specifications

Earthtech Site Work Drawings

Dome shipping

Shutter Conceptual Design Review

Icestorm Enclosure and Dome Preliminary Design Review

These are reference photos only, not the actual telescope enclosure:

General Enclosure Photos

Detailed Enclosure Photos

Dome-Related SPIE Papers:

• Designing the SALT Facility to Minimize Dome Seeing Effects
  Mariana de Kock, Sarel Venter
• Seeing experiments with the WIYN 3.5-m Telescope
  Daniel R. Blanco, Charles Corson, David G. Sawyer
• The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Natural Ventilation System Upgrade
  John M. Good, Phillip W. Kelton, John A. Booth, Edwin S. Barker
• Temperature Control for the Primary Mirror and Seeing Statistics of Subaru Telescope
  Akihiko Miyashita, Ryusuke Ogasawara, Naruhisa Takato, George Kosugi, Tadafumi Takata, Fumihiro Uraguchi
• Thermal Conditioning of the AEOS Telescope
  Lewis C. Roberts, Jr. and Peter D. Figgis
• Seeing Experiments with the WIYN 3.5 meter Telescope
  Daniel Blanco, Charles Corson, and David Sawyer
• The Upgraded UKIRT
  T.G. Hawarden, N.P. Rees, C.P. Cavedoni, T.C. Chuter, A. Chrysostomou, D.G. Pettie, R.J. Bennett, E. Atad, J.W. Harris, B. Mack, E. Pitz, G. Glindemann, S. Hippler, R.R. Rohloff, K. Wagner
  

Following are abstracts only. Please notify SPIE if you wish to obtain a copy of the full paper.

• Thermal Design of the WIYN 3.5 Meter Telescope Enclosure
  Dan Blanco and Matt Johns
• The UKIRT Upgrades Program: Control of the Telescope Thermal Environment
  C.P. Cavedoni, T.G. Hawarden, T.C. Chuter, I.A. Look
• The UKIRT Upgrades Program: Design and Installation of the Dome Ventillation System
  D.H. Neff, E.A. Hileman, S.J. Kain, C.P. Cavedoni, T.C. Chuter
• The Gemini Primary Mirror Thermal Management System
  R.J.S. Greenhalgh
• An Engineering Handbook for Local and Dome Seeing
  Lorenzo Zago
• Prototype Testing of a Surface Heating System for the Gemini 8-meter Telescopes
  Eric Hansen, David Hagelbarger, Earl Pearson