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Miniature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array I: design, commissioning, and early photometric results
2015
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems
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The modular design of the facility and the flexibility of our hardware allows for both science programs to be pursued simultaneously, while the robotic control software provides a robust and efficient ...
The facility is now in the process of being relocated to its final destination at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in southern Arizona, and science operations will begin in 2015. ...
Currently, the filters available to the MINERVA system are the Johnson U, B, V, R, and I; second-generation Sloan g 0 , r 0 , i 0 , and z 0 ; narrow band H α, [SII], [OIII], and amateur filters, L, R, ...
doi:10.1117/1.jatis.1.2.027002
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AstroCloud: A Distributed Cloud Computing and Application Platform for Astronomy
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2017
arXiv
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It consists of five application channels, i.e. observation, data, tools, cloud and public and is acting as a full lifecycle management system and gateway for astronomical data and telescopes. ...
In the paper, backgrounds of the project, architecture, Cloud Computing environment, key features of the system, current status and future plans are introduced. ...
Public channel is one modular especially developed for the public and amateur astronomers, including several VO featured applications and services. ...
arXiv:1701.05641v1
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Observatory for education and public outreach controlled through the World Wide Web
1998
Telescope Control Systems III
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The main principles of the remote control system are presented in this paper, along with a discussion of the education and outreach goals of the observatory, details of the facility and hardware, initial ...
The on site public outreach and education program has been fully active since Fall, 1997 and we are currently in the process of developing a platform-independent system for remotely controlling the observatory ...
The integration of the many hardware components described above into the observatory control system is discussed in the next section. ...
doi:10.1117/12.308810
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The SPIRIT Telescope Initiative: six years on
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2018
arXiv
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This paper details the robotic telescope solution, student interface and educational philosophy, summarises achievements and lessons learned and examines the possibilities for future enhancement including ...
The technical solution itself provides an excellent model for low cost robotic telescope installations, and the education program has evolved over time to include a broad range of student experiences - ...
This is exemplified by the number of vendors of commercial telescope hardware and software who are themselves, amateur astronomers. ...
arXiv:1807.06188v1
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System Description and First Light Curves of the Hungarian Automated Telescope, an Autonomous Observatory for Variability Search
2002
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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We give brief hardware and software description of the system, controlled by a single PC running RealTime Linux operating system. ...
The small autonomous observatory is recording brightness of stars in the range of I~6--13m with a telephoto lens and its 9x9 degree field of view, yielding a data rate of ~10^6 photometric measurements ...
Strittmatter for the opportunity of installing HAT to Kitt Peak, partial funds for the installation costs, and the hospitality of Steward Observatory. ...
doi:10.1086/342382
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The World-Wide Telescope
2001
Science
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Bob: I thought all the fuss about quantum computing was about engineering-but that sounds like something you'd read in Science. Alice: Nah, they'd never publish something like this. ...
may enhance our ability to understand as well as control quantum systems. ...
The resulting system will dramatically improve our ability to do multi-spectral and temporal studies that integrate data from multiple instruments. ...
doi:10.1126/science.293.5537.2037
pmid:11557879
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ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES AND DATA MINING IN THE INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY CONTEXT
2011
Science: Image in Action
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The DAME project, run jointly by the Department of Physics of the University "Federico II", INAF Astronomical Observatory of Napoli, and the California Institute of Technology, is financed through grants ...
from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European FP7 EuroVO projects and by the USA-National Science Foundation. ...
that can often be Observatories; • Archives are managed by Observatories and/ or Agencies; • Publications are managed by Journals; there is however a single point of search and access, the ADS system ...
doi:10.1142/9789814383295_0019
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The world-wide telescope
2002
Communications of the ACM
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The resulting system will dramatically improve our ability to do multi-spectral and temporal studies that integrate data from multiple instruments. ...
V I E W P O I N T The World-Wide Telescope Alexander Szalay, 1 Jim Gray 2 All astronomy data and literature will soon be online and accessible via the Internet. ...
doi:10.1145/581571.581572
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Instrument technologies for the detection of extraterrestrial interstellar robotic probes
2001
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in the Optical Spectrum III
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Autonomous instrument platforms (i.e. robotic observatories) to search for anomalous energy signatures can be designed and assembled using Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software. ...
The COTS approach to observatory design provides an economical, flexible and robust path toward collecting reliable data. ...
Furthermore, a special thanks goes to JPL Document Review for granting clearance for the publication of this paper, and the engineers at JPL who peer reviewed the paper. ...
doi:10.1117/12.435372
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Instrumental methods for professional and amateur collaborations in planetary astronomy
2014
Experimental astronomy (Print)
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Here we review the different domains of the field in which collaborations between professional and amateur astronomers are effective and regularly lead to scientific publications. ...
Amateur contributions to professional publications have increased exponentially over the last decades in the field of Planetary Astronomy. ...
The cost of such kind of instrumentation is within the reach of many amateur stations or public observatories. ...
doi:10.1007/s10686-014-9379-0
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Optical SETI observatories in the new millennium: a review
2001
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in the Optical Spectrum III
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This paper also speculates on the eventual need to move Optical SETI observatories into space with high altitude balloons and space-based telescopes. ...
Just as the microwave SETI@Home project has proved very popular with the public, the time has come for its optical equivalent. ...
They are the Hamamatsu H7421-40 PMT system i and PerkinElmer SPCM-AQR solid-state system j . Both turnkey systems employ Peltier coolers and have high quantum efficiencies. ...
doi:10.1117/12.435383
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Project Solaris, a Global Network of Autonomous Observatories: Design, Commissioning, and First Science Results
2017
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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We present the design and commissioning of Project Solaris, a global network of autonomous observatories. ...
We present the design and implementation of low-level security; data logging and notification systems; weather monitoring components; all-sky vision system, surveillance system; and distributed temperature ...
We are grateful to the technical and administration staff in SAAO, SSO, and CASLEO for their help during the construction and commissioning of the telescopes. ...
doi:10.1088/1538-3873/aa83aa
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Reflections on the solar-stellar connection
1985
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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easy to underestimate the opportunities of the amateur, and the possibilities of research with limited instrumental means. " I particularly want to mention the effort by Russell Genet and Louis Boyd of ...
a model by those who extol the virtues of privately-supported institutions, but I have no doubt he would have accepted support from whatever legitimate sources, private or public, that promised to help ...
doi:10.1086/131565
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The Photometry Pipeline of the Watcher Robotic Telescope
2010
Advances in Astronomy
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Sources of uncertainty are assessed and the performance of the pipeline is tested by comparison with a number of catalogue sources. ...
Details of the procedures to get image zero-point, source instrumental measurement, and limiting magnitude are presented. ...
Acknowledgment The authors acknowledge the support from the Science Foundation Ireland under Grant 07-RFP-PHYF295. ...
doi:10.1155/2010/715237
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FIASCO: A new spectrograph at the University Observatory Jena
2009
Astronomical Notes - Astronomische Nachrichten
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A new spectrograph (FIASCO) is in operation at the 0.9m telescope of the University Observatory Jena. ...
This article describes the characterization of the instrument and reports its first astronomical observations, among those Li (670.8nm) detection in the atmosphere of young stars, and the simultaneous ...
We would like also to thank the MPE for its contribution to FIASCO hardware, as well as the staff of the mechanic and electronic division of the faculty for physics and astronomy at the University Jena ...
doi:10.1002/asna.200811192
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