Observatories Forum

Sept 23-25, 2025 ⟡ Santa Barbara, CA

The Observatories Forum is a workshop series designed to bring together developers and engineers from different facilities spanning a range of wavelengths, with developers from the science community. The goal is to share experience, tools, challenges and plans, particularly those associated with enabling time domain and multi-messenger astrophysics.

Join us for our inaugural meeting in Santa Barbara, CA! Registration now open

This event will be fully hybrid, with options to participate in person or via a virtual platform.

Topics will include:

• Observatory software and its challenges
  • Including proposal/observation request systems, scheduling, observatory & instrument operations, observatory status, data pipelines and archiving
• Astronomer-side software tools and challenges
  • Including TOM/marshal systems, community messaging & coordination services, visibility tools, signal-to-noise/exposure time calculators etc
• Recent and planned development
  • Towards generalized APIs for proposal, observation requests across wavelengths