The following protocol has been devised for remote observations with the Arecibo telescope. ... Before you can connect to Arecibo using VNC, you will need to start a VNC session on a computer at Arecibo. When you log on to the Arecibo system, you will normally use remote.naic.edu . ... You should therefore log onto another machine before running your VNC session; for remote observing the machine normally used is dataview , one of the observer's machines in the control room. ... cd .vnc . ...