IRTF Galileo Support Monitoring of Jupiter and Io

                         Project Summary
                        -------------------
(from http://www.lowell.edu/users/ijw/irtfmon.html)

Alan Tokunaga, director of the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), on Mauna
Kea, Hawaii, has agreed to set aside one hour at the beginning or end of every
night that the NSFCAM infrared camera is mounted on the IRTF, and Jupiter is
observable, for a standardised set of observations of Io and Jupiter in support
of the Galileo mission. This program observed Io on 14 nights in September and
October 1995 , and will resume in May 1996, to be continued (we hope) through
the duration of the Galileo mission. The Io observations are coordinated by
IJW Satellite Discipline leader John Spencer, and executed by the telescope
operators: Dave Griep, Bill Golisch, and Charlie Kaminski.

                 Galileo Monitoring Program Data
                 -------------------------------

This directory contain the data taken by NSFCAM for the IRTF's Galileo
Monitoring Program. Each nights data is tar and compress into a single
file. The filename are based on the UT date the data was taken. For
example, 95.09.03.tar.Z is the tarred and compress directory ./95.09.03
of the data taken on September 9, 1995.

After downloading the data, you may uncompress and un-tar them with the
following command:

   zcat filename | tar xvf -

The NSFCAM imaging data taken to support the Galileo mission investigation
which is aimed specifically at Io and Jupiter atmospheric and auroral science
is completely open to all investigators and my be used  in any publishable
scientific investigations. We request that you acknowledge the NASA Infrared
Telescope Facility Monitoring Program. Questions on the used of the data and
the development of the program should be directed to Glenn Orton
(go@orton.jpl.nasa.gov) for atmospheric images, Steve Miller(s.miller@ucl.ac.uk) 
for auroral images, and John Spencer (spencer@lowell.edu) for Io Images.

If you have any question or comments on this FTP site directory, please
contact denault@irtf.ifa.hawaii.edu.

Notes:

1. The data taken during the Sept/Oct 1995 period has been archived
   on CD-ROM.  The file galileo.cdrom1.txt contains a list of the files
   present on the CD-ROM.

   The data taken during the May 1996/Aug 21, 1996 period has been archived
   on CD-ROM.  The file galileo.cdrom2.txt contains a list of the files
   present on the CD-ROM.

   If you desire access to this CD, please contact denault@irtf.ifa.hawaii.edu.


Galileo Monitoring Program Contacts
-----------------------------------

1. Question concerning the campaign should be addressed to:

   Alan Tokunaga, IRTF Division Chief at tokunaga@ifa.hawaii.edu

2. John Spencer has developed a World Wide Web page about the
   monitoring program with some sample results.
   Visit: http://www.lowell.edu/users/ijw/irtfmon.html

3. Question concerning access to the FTP site and its data should
   be addressed to: webmastr@irtf.ifa.hawaii.edu.

Tony Denault