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Official blessing on June 4th, 2009
The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), a national big science project of China, just received its official blessing and ready for full formal run on June. 4th, 2009
A simple review about LAMOST
A simple review about LAMOST system and its history
A LAMOST booklet is available for download
LAMOST introduction in both Chinese and English
China-VO 2008 was held successfully
On the last weekend of November 2008, about 60 peoples attended the China-VO 2008, the 7th national VO meeting in China. 28 talks and 3 discussions were presented in the workshop, which made the China-VO 2008 to be the largest one in the history of the China-VO annual meetings. For more details please visit the website of the workshop.
Invitation from China-VO 2008
China-VO 2008 will be held at Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, from Nov. 27 to 30, 2008. For more information, please visit the meeting website at:
http://www.china-vo.org/cn/events/cvo08/
Scisoft 7.2 was released
Recently, ESO released an update version of the Scisoft, version 7.2. It has been available for download locally from the LAMOST mirror at:
http://scisoft.lamost.org
Scisoft 7.1 now available
We are pleased to announce that Scisoft 7.1 is now available from the standard ESO Scisoft web pages (www.eso.org/scisoft). This version includes many small updates, new versions of some major packages (IRAF/STSDAS, MIDAS) and also some new items (Funtools, BoA, miniCRUSH, VirGO etc). It is still for Fedora Core 6 (32bit).
Lu Yongxiang inspected the LAMOST project in progress in the Xinglong Station
Lu Yongxiang, Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with other high rank officials, inspected the LAMOST project in progress in the Xinglong Station of National Astronomical Observatories on July 27th, 2007.
LAMOST Data Policy (V1 draft)
The first LAMOST Data Policy (V1 draft) is release in Chinese today. Please send your comments and suggestions to: jjchen@lamost.org
Full text is available at:
http://www.lamost.org/lamost/documents/LAMOST_data_policy_v1.doc
Scisoft 7.0 for Linux is now available for download
Scisoft is a project within ESO to provide a collection of astronomical software utilities in a uniform way at all four ESO sites and to make them available to the outside world. The current version, Scisoft 7, June 2007, is only available for Fedora Core 6 Linux. The previous version, Scisoft v6.1 September 2006, was for Fedora Core 3, Scisoft v5 was available for RedHat9 and earlier versions are also available for Solaris 8, Linux Redhat 6.2 and HP-UX 11.
