Astronomical Utilities
Rise and set times | Enter RA and Declination to get target availability |
| Source observability | Plot of source airmass versus time, for a given OMP project. [Staff only at present] |
Finding nearby SAO or BS stars | Bright star finder |
Temperatures and Colors of Stars | Tables of effective temperature and optical-IR colour indices |
Zero mag fluxes, conversions to Jansky | Magnitudes to Janskys and W.m-2.micron-1 |
Atmospheric Transmission and Extinction | 0.9-32um transmission plots and Extinction coefficients between U and Q Available to staff only via internal container |
UKIRT Sky Brightness measurements | Through-night variations of JHK sky brightness; Flat field timing; Correlations between J, H and K sky brightness |
Condition Requirements for UKIRT Observing | Seeing, water vapour and sky brightness constraints for queued programmes, and their MKO site statistics |