The observatory is administered by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ).

IRAF ( an acronym for Image Reduction and Analysis Facility ) is a collection of software written at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ) geared towards the reduction of astronomical images in pixel array form.

In March 2012, NOAO released v2. 16 of IRAF, citing one of the " new capabilities " as " Removal of all license restrictions-IRAF is now free ".

An adaptive secondary mirror is being developed by NOAO for Gemini ; this would provide reasonable adaptive-optics corrections ( equivalent to natural seeing at the 20th-percentile level 80 % of the time ) to all instruments on the telescope to which it is attached.

It also has Phoenix, a high-resolution infrared spectrograph build by NOAO of the United States, although this instrument is no longer offered.

The National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ) is the United States national observatory for ground based nighttime ultraviolet-optical-infrared ( OUVIR ) astronomy.

The NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy ( AURA ), under a cooperative agreement with the NSF.

NOAO is a founding partner in the LSST project.

During this phase, NOAO is responsible for design & development of the LSST telescope system and site facilities.

A clear success story is the public access to non-federal large aperture telescopes through the NSF funded and NOAO managed Telescope System Instrumentation Program ( TSIP ).

CTIO is one of two observatories managed by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ), the other being Kitt Peak National Observatory ( KPNO ) near Tucson, Arizona.

NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy ( AURA ), which owns the property around the two peaks in Chile and at the headquarters in La Serena.

The National Science Foundation ( NSF ) is the funding agency for NOAO.

The Small and Medium Research Telescope System ( SMARTS ) is a consortium formed in 2001 after NOAO announced it would no longer support anything smaller than two meters at CTIO.

The Blanco 4m is the only telescope on Cerro Tololo managed directly by NOAO.

It was dedicated in 2004 and is managed by NOAO for an international consortium of which NOAO is a partner.

The organization is responsible for the operation of several important observatories, known as " AURA centers ": the Gemini Observatory ; the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ); the National Solar Observatory ( NSO ); the Space Telescope Science Institute ( STScI ); and the AURA Observatory ( AURA-O ).

He began work in December 1994 in his present position in what is now the NOAO Gemini Science Center, assisting the NGSC Director in overseeing the development of instruments in the US for the Gemini 8-meter telescopes.

It was commissioned in 2003, and is operated by a consortium including the countries of Brazil and Chile, Michigan State University, the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory ( CTIO ) ( part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, NOAO ), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A full IRAF working environment usually requires two other applications: an extended xterm window with a graphics windows ( called xgterm and distributed in a separate X11-IRAF package by NOAO ) and an image display program referred to as an " image server ".

NOAO seems to have made no effort to clarify this situation, open-source developers concerned with license issues have made no effort to correct this on their own, and so efforts to package the software for drop-in installation in GNU / Linux systems have lapsed.

The NOAO headquarters are located in Tucson, Arizona and are co-located with the headquarters of the National Solar Observatory.

It will share operational infrastructure with Gemini, SOAR, and NOAO, both on the mountain and in La Serena.

NOAO has worked very hard with the US community in the ensuing years in developing this System.

SMARTS contracts with NOAO to maintain the telescopes it controls at CTIO, and NOAO retains the right to 25 % of the observing time, and Chilean scientists retain 10 %.

Over the years, AURA expanded its focus to include Solar Astronomy and the Gemini 8-meter telescopes, going on to partner with other consortia such as WIYN ( Wisconsin Indiana Yale & NOAO ) and SOAR ( Southern Astrophysical Research ).

In 1990, Trueblood moved to Tucson, Arizona to assume a position with the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO, which serves as the US national observatory ) at the National Solar Observatory.

NOAO operates world class research telescopes in both the northern and southern hemispheres.

The National Science Foundation ( NSF ) funds NOAO to provide forefront astronomical research facilities for US astronomers.

NOAO continues to work on behalf of the community to effectively shape the System and gain steady, state-of-the-art research capabilities of all apertures for open, merit based science.

NOAO also manages US participation in the international Gemini Observatory.

From 2004 to 2010, approximately 8 % of MMT observing time was made accessible to the entire astronomical community via the US National Science Foundation's Telescope System Instrumentation Program ( TSIP ), administered by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ).

* IRAF-a free, graphical data reduction environment produced by NOAO

There are many packages available by NOAO and external developers often focusing on a particular branch of research or facility.

The two most popular image servers are ds9 ( by SAO ) and ximtool ( NOAO ).

* NICI ( Near-Infrared Coronagraphic Imager ), built by the University of Hawaii and NOAO.

However, professional astronomers from any country in the world may apply to use the telescopes operated by NOAO under the NSF's " open skies " policy.

In 1982 NOAO was formed to consolidate the management of three optical observatories — Kitt Peak ; the National Solar Observatory facilities at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, New Mexico ; and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

NASA accepts proposals from researchers based in the United States, while the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ) accept proposals from researchers around the world.

The combination of truly open access and the merit based science proposal process makes NOAO unique in the world.

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