[SAO] [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/sao-home.html] is a "research institute"  of the Smithsonian Institution [http://www.si.edu] headquartered in Cambridge, MA, where it is joined with the Harvard College Observatory (HCO [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/hco/]) to form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics  (CfA [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/index.html]).  More than  300 scientists at the CfA are engaged in a broad program of research in astronomy, astrophysics, earth and space sciences, and science education.

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   * MMT Instruments control  

The f5 facility instrumentation at the new 6.5 meter MMT has been built by SAO.  They made thier
first light engineering run at the telescope in the fall of 2003.
They run on tcl/tk.  Here are some first light images taken by the worlds largest astronomical
CCD camera [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~bmcleod/megapics] 


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