An amateur telescope control system: toward a generic telescope control model

Rodrigo J. Tobar; Horst H. von Brand; Mauricio A. Araya; Joao S. López

doi:10.1117/12.790496

19 July 2008 An amateur telescope control system: toward a generic telescope control model

Rodrigo J. Tobar, Horst H. von Brand, Mauricio A. Araya, Joao S. López

Proceedings Volume 7019, Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy II; 70192I (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.790496
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

Control System for an Amateur Telescope (CSAT) is a distributed telescope control system model for amateur telescopes with transparent interchangeable components, built using the ALMA Common Software (ACS) framework. The CSAT project has been thought as the first step towards a generic telescope control model, which will consist on a generic control framework for any telescope mount. With the ACS Container/Component model, a completely different hardware can be supported by just re-implementing the low-level components for the new setup. This way, CSAT becomes a very good example of all the features that ACS provides for building a generic telescope control framework.

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Rodrigo J. Tobar, Horst H. von Brand, Mauricio A. Araya, and Joao S. López "An amateur telescope control system: toward a generic telescope control model", Proc. SPIE 7019, Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy II, 70192I (19 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.790496

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