Speaker
Description
NOT has come to a mature age soon celebrating its 40 years in operation. Throughout the years NOT has remained as a highly competitive facility due to its advanced design, versatile instrument suite and control system, and flexible operations model. To ensure continued high level of competitiveness for the coming decades, it is time to consider technical updates and upgrades of the telescope. The strong points of NOTs design are presented to give a basis for a discussion on how to exploit the telescope the best in the future. The current maintenance and development projects taking place at the NOT, including the Telescope Control System (TCS) migration are described, projects to be pursued together with external partners in the future are suggested, and considerations on their practical execution are presented.