Principal Investigator

Brian P Schmidt Mount Stromlo, RSAA, Australian National University

Project Title

First Step in a Virtual Observatory; Calibrating the MaCHO Images

Brief Description for General Publications

The Recently Destroyed Great Melbourne Telescope Acquired nearly 10 Terabytes of data from 1992-2002, with the data currently not easily accessible to the wider community. In an effort to set up a node of a virtual observatory, we need to calibrate the positions of this dataset, so that it can be used as part of a virtual observatory, where astronomers from around the globe can query and use this valuable telescope resource.