发表机构
European Southern Observatory（欧洲南方天文台）
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本文介绍ESO开发的观测准备工具ObsPrep，它通过抽象化仪器细节并集成到p2界面，支持用户交互式规划观测，并计划扩展至ELT仪器。
AI 中文摘要
地面天文台正经历着显著的技术进步，望远镜配备了高度复杂的仪器以支持前沿的天文学研究。这类仪器日益增长的复杂性给用户规划和准备特定观测项目带来了挑战，这些项目往往需要定义大量详细的仪器特定信息。因此，在ESO我们开发了一个观测准备工具（简称ObsPrep工具），它在仪器特定技术细节之上提供了一层抽象，并试图协调用户在面对不同复杂仪器的观测块准备时的体验。ObsPrep工具通过可视化各种操作和观测策略，允许对观测进行交互式规划。通过软件工程师和天文学家的联合方法，ObsPrep最初作为一个独立的Java桌面应用程序启动，多年来已演变为一个基于Angular的Web应用程序。它现已完全集成到ESO通用的第二阶段用户界面（p2）中，该界面允许ESO用户创建、修改或删除观测块。在此我们介绍ObsPrep的核心功能、其特殊特性，以及用户界面如何集成到ESO通用的第二阶段观测准备工具中。我们还概述了将下一代ESO大型望远镜（ELT）仪器的观测准备纳入ObsPrep的即将到来的计划。
英文摘要
Ground based observatories are experiencing significant technological advances and telescopes are getting equipped with highly complex instruments to enable cutting-edge astronomical research. The increasing complexity of such instruments displays a challenge to their users when they want to plan and prepare specific observation programmes, that often request to define large amount of detailed instrument-specific information. Therefore, at ESO we developed an Observation Preparation tool (in short ObsPrep tool), which provides a layer of abstraction over the instrument-specific technical details and tries to harmonize the users experience when being faced with the preparation of observation blocks for different complex instruments. The ObsPrep tool allows interactive planning of the observations by visualization of various actions and observing strategies. In a joint approach by software engineers and astronomers, ObsPrep was started as a stand-alone java desktop application and over the years has evolved into an angular based web-application. It is now fully integrated in ESOs general use phase2 user interface (p2) that allows ESO users to create, modify, or delete observation blocks. Here we present the core functionalities of ObsPrep, as well as its special features and how the user interface integrates into ESOs generic phase2 observation preparation tool. We also outline the upcoming plans to incorporate the observation preparation for the instruments of the next generation of ESOs large telescopes, the ELT, into ObsPrep.
Comments10 pages, 8 figures To be published in Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. [14151], (2026)
