Procedures

Keck Observatory Archive (KOA)

Your data will be available to the observing program PI on the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) in real-time during the observing run. Therefore, there is no need for you to download your data on your observing night, unless you wish to.

If you prefer to download the data from KOA using the file naming scheme used at the telescope, e.g. n0210.fits, instead of the KOA naming scheme, e.g. N2.20080908.19283.fits, you can do so by selecting the option "Non-unique filename, assigned at the telescope" on the KOA interface.

Downloading data from real-time ingestion GUI

Your data can be downloaded in real-time from a browser-based user interface.

Accessing data with PyKOA (Preferred)

Your data can be batch-downloaded with Python interface of KOA.Custom made python scripts and Jupyter notebooks for each instrument can be downloaded here:

Keck I			Keck II
Instrument	Jupyter notebook	Python script	Instrument	Jupyter notebook	Python script
HIRES	Download	Download	DEIMOS	Download	Download
LRIS	Download	Download	ESI	Download	Download
MOSFIRE	Download	Download	KCWI	Download	Download
OSIRIS	Download	Download	NIRES	Download	Download
KPF	Download	Download	NIRC2	Download	Download
			NIRSPEC	Download	Download

Detailed documentations can be found in the PyKOA web page.

Data Transfer via SCP, SFTP or FTP (Deprecated)

Sending data to other computers using SCP, SFTP, or FTP.

Data Transfer via RSYNC (Deprecated)

Using an RSYNC transfer data