The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) is the largest single dish telescope in the world focused on sub-millimeter astronomy - and it remains at the forefront of sub-millimeter discovery space. JCMT continues itspush for higher efficiency and greater science impact with a switch to fully remote operation. This switch toremote operations occurred on November 1st 2019. The switch to remote operations should be recognized to bepart of a decade long process involving incremental changes leading to Extended Observing - observing beyondthe classical night shift - and eventually to full remote operations. The success of Remote Observing is indicatedin the number of productive hours and continued low fault rate from before and after the switch.
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@article{arxiv.2012.10568,
title = {Implementing Remote Observing at the JCMT},
author = {Harriet Parsons and Jessica Dempsey and Dan Bintley and Craig Walther and Sarah Graves and William Stahm and Maren Purves and Kevin Silva and Alexis Acohido and Graham Bell and Ryan Berthold and Jamie Cookson and Vernon DeMattos and Devin Estrada and Miriam Fuchs and David Fuselier and Paul Ho and John Kuroda and Shaoliang Li and Steven Mairs and Mark Rawlings},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.10568},
year = {2020}
}