The Robotic Palomar 60-inch Telescope (P60)

We are engaged in the project of automating the Palomar 60-inch telescope (P60) and transforming it into an efficient and autonomous optical transient observing system.

Thank you for joining us. To learn more, please browse the pages linked below. Some of them may not be accessible if you are away from Caltech/JPL, or if you do not have an official Palomar observer login.

Information for Proposers (JPAC and Caltech):

Quick links:

P60 Archive at IPAC
IRAF ccdtime database (use telescope=60i and detector=newp60)
Example target lists: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Science with P60:

Photometric Typing Analyses of Three Young Supernovae with the Robotic Palomar 60-Inch Telescope, A. M. Rajala, D. B. Fox, A. Gal-Yam, D. C. Leonard, A. M. Soderberg, S. R. Kulkarni, S. B. Cenko, D.-S. Moon, & F. A. Harrison, 2005, PASP, in press
The Optical Counterpart of IGR J00291+5934, the newest and fastest-spinning accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar (598 Hz!)
The Caltech Core Collapse Project (CCCP), an approved Palomar Large Program with P60 component

Fun stuff:

Pictures
PDF version of my talk for the Zwicky Supernova Workshop at Carnegie (Jan 17, 2004).

Derek Fox (derekfox [at] astro.caltech.edu)

Last modified: 30 November 2004.