The Palomar 60-inch Automation Project

Welcome to the home page of the Palomar 60-inch Automation Project.   The Palomar Observatory, owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology and located in north San Diego County California, supports the research of the Caltech faculty, post-doctoral fellows and students, and that of researchers at Caltech's collaborating institutions.

Under the guidance of Professors Fiona Harrison and Shri Kulkarni of Cal Tech, we are in the process of fully automating the day-to-day operations of the 60-inch telescope.  Our primary scientific objective is the immediate observation of gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomenon.  We hope to have the telescope fully operation by September 2003.