LBTO and COVID-19 Phase 2: Re-opening the observatory
Posted on May 27, 2020
LBTO stopped operations on March 18, 2020. On May 26, LBTO has started to get ready for a "C-19 observing mode" based on a desire to segregate the Graham County staff (where the mountain staff resides) and the Tucson-based staff as much as possible, in order to avoid making the observatory on Mt Graham a connection between the two communities.
Posted on May 27, 2020
LBTO stopped operations on March 18, 2020. On May 26, LBTO has started to get ready for a "C-19 observing mode" based on a desire to segregate the Graham County staff (where the mountain staff resides) and the Tucson-based staff as much as possible, in order to avoid making the observatory on Mt Graham a connection between the two communities.
- Moving forward, only Safford-based staff, three at a time, will be authorized to overnight in the LBT building on Mt Graham, in shifts of three or four days.
- Telescope operation and science observing will be performed from Tucson.
- Observing will be done by LBT staff in service observing mode.
- Science observing should resume in early June.
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