Suggestions, Help, and Contact

The remainder of this document concentrates on a cookbook-like hands-on detailed description of the OPT, SCT and RCT.  However, before digging into this, we already here want to mention that we are interested in your comments and suggestions on improving this document (and the OPT web application) for future users. Also, if you find yourself stuck and need help with the tools, if you have excessive problems with web interface issues or if you just need some hints or pointers for optimal user convenience, we can be contacted by email: send your message to vlahelp@nrao.edu. Please use OPT in the subject line, preferably at the beginning.

As all of this will be new to you and fairly new to us as well, please do not wait until the last moment to schedule your observations!

The same holds when asking for help. If possible, we suggest that you start at least two weeks before your planned observations, allowing enough time to address any scheduling problems and possible bugs in this new software.  We may need to do a short test observation and analyze the results before your schedule is approved, which of course takes extra time.

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