From a computer controlled telescope to a robotic observatory: the history of the VIRT

Bruce Gendre; N. Brice Orange; David C. Morris; Tim Giblin; Jeff Neff; Alain Klotz; Pierre Thierry

From a computer controlled telescope to a robotic observatory: the history of the VIRT

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2018-07-11 v1

Authors: Bruce Gendre , N. Brice Orange , David C. Morris , Tim Giblin , Jeff Neff , Alain Klotz , Pierre Thierry

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The Virgin Island Robotic Telescope is located at the Etelman Observatory, St Thomas, since 2002. We will present its evolution since that date with the changes we have performed in order to modify an automated instrument, needing human supervision, to a fully robotic observatory. The system is based on ROS (Robotic Observatory Software) developed for TAROT and now installed on various observatories across the world (Calern, La Silla, Zadko, Les Markes, Etelman Observatory).

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robotic telescope robotic observatory virt ros etelman observatory tarot

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@article{arxiv.1807.03538,
  title  = {From a computer controlled telescope to a robotic observatory: the history of the VIRT},
  author = {Bruce Gendre and N. Brice Orange and David C. Morris and Tim Giblin and Jeff Neff and Alain Klotz and Pierre Thierry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.03538},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, Accepted for publication in the 4th Robotic Telescope Workshop Proceedings

From a computer controlled telescope to a robotic observatory: the history of the VIRT

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