Turning a remotely controllable observatory into a fully autonomous system

0485496 - FZÚ 2018 RIV US eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Swindell, S. - Johnson, C. - Gabor, P. - Zareba, G. - Kubánek, Petr - Prouza, Michael
Turning a remotely controllable observatory into a fully autonomous system.
Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems V. Bellingham: SPIE, 2014, s. 1-9, č. článku 914921. Proceedings of SPIE, 9149. ISBN 9780819496171. ISSN 0277-786X.
[SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation 2014. Montreal (CA), 25.06.2014-27.06.2014]
EU Projects: European Commission(XE) 283783 - GLORIA
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : RTS2 * autonomous system
OECD category: Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

We describe a complex process needed to turn an existing, old, operational observatory-The Steward Observatory's 61 inch Kuiper Telescope-into a fully autonomous system, which observers without an observer. For this purpose, we employed RTS2,(1) an open sourced, Linux based observatory control system, together with other open sourced programs and tools (GNU compilers, Python language for scripting, JQuery UI for Web user interface). This presentation provides a guide with time estimates needed for a newcomers to the field to handle such challenging tasks, as fully autonomous observatory operations.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0280501