APO 3.5m Dome Flow Analysis

Advisor: Joseph Huehnerhoff

Description: Cooling of large telescopes directly affects the quality of the science obtained.Anemometer stations have been placed around the dome of the 3.5m telescope at Apache Point Observatory to characterize the movement of air in the dome. This project will be to analyze this data in a manner that will allow for understanding of how the dome behaves under typical observing conditions.

The tricky part of the data is that that it is taken at a relatively high cadence over long periods of time. The anemometer stations were also moved around the dome, so the data must be combined to obtain a complete set.

Project Skills: Terminal, VI and / or EMACS, Python (File IO, matplotlib)