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The new 1-m f/4 fast-slew Zadko Telescope was installed in June 2008 about 70 km north of Perth, Western Australia. It is the only metre-class optical facility at this southern latitude between the east coast of Australia and South Africa,…

The 1.0 metre f/4 fast-slew Zadko Telescope was installed in June 2008 approximately seventy kilometres north of Perth at Yeal, in the Shire of Gingin, Western Australia. Since the Zadko Telescope has been in operation it has proven its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 J. A. Moore , B. Gendre , D. M. Coward , H. Crisp , A. Klotz

The Zadko Observatory located approximately 70 kilometres north of Perth in the Yeal nature reserve within the Shire of Gingin, Western Australia, initially housed the 1.0 metre f/4 fast-slew Zadko Telescope which was commissioned in June…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-11 John Moore , Bruce Gendre , David Coward , Fiona Panther , Eloise Moore

The 1.0 meter f/4 fast-slew Zadko telescope is located in Western Australia, approximately seventy kilometers north of Perth at Yeal in the Shire of Gingin in a dedicated "low-luminosity" area. It is the only meter class optical research…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 B. Gendre , D. Coward , J. Moore , A. Burrell , A. Klotz , P. Thierry , H. Crisp , E. Howell

The Gaia satellite, planned for launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2013, is the next generation astrometry mission following Hipparcos. Gaia's primary science goal is to determine the kinematics, chemical structure and evolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-31 M. Todd , D. M. Coward , P. Tanga , W. Thuillot

The 2dF (Two-degree Field) facility at the prime focus of the Anglo-Australian Telescope provides multiple object spectroscopy over a 2 degree field of view. Up to 400 target fibres can be independently positioned by a complex robot. Two…

We report on the status of the construction of an array of four 10 m atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes for gamma-ray astronomy, near Woomera, in South Australia -- the CANGAROO-III project. The first telescope of this array is the upgraded…

We introduce the Lee Sang Gak Telescope (LSGT), a remotely operated, robotic 0.43-meter telescope. The telescope was installed at the Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, in 2014 October, to secure regular and exclusive access to the dark…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-13 Myungshin Im , Changsu Choi , Kihyun Kim

Since it is not possible to predict when a Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) will occur or when Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) flaring activity starts, follow-up/monitoring ground telescopes must be located as uniformly as possible all over the world in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 T. Sakamoto , C. A. Wallace , D. Donato , N. Gehrels , T. Okajima , T. N. Ukwatta

Preliminary results from CANGAROO-II, a 10 m imaging Cherenkov telescope, in Woomera, South Australia are presented. They include the confirmation of detections of TeV gamma-ray sources we have reported using a 3.8 m telescope, CANGAROO-I.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Masaki Mori , the CANGAROO collaboration

AST/RO, a 1.7 m diameter telescope for astronomy and aeronomy studies at wavelengths between 200 and 2000 microns, was installed at the South Pole during the 1994-1995 Austral summer. The telescope operates continuously through the Austral…

The new 1.5~m telescope (AZ1500) is operating at the National Astronomical Observatory Rozhen, Bulgaria. This paper gives an overview of the telescope and presents a snapshot of the current performance. Science observations are under way,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 E. Semkov , N. Petrov , M. Minev , M. Moyseev , D. Marchev , E. Ovcharov , J. Marti , I. E. Dimitrova , R. K. Zamanov

We provide an overview of the robotic Super-LOTIS (Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System) telescope and present results from gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow observations using Super-LOTIS and other Steward Observatory telescopes. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. G. Williams , P. A. Milne , H. S. Park , S. D. Barthelmy , D. H. Hartmann , A. Updike , K. Hurley

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public-private enterprise, is a new time domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope with a 47 deg$^2$ field of view and 8 second readout time. It is well…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Matthew J. Graham , S. R. Kulkarni , Eric C. Bellm , Scott M. Adams , Cristina Barbarino , Nadejda Blagorodnova , Dennis Bodewits , Bryce Bolin , Patrick R. Brady , S. Bradley Cenko , Chan-Kao Chang , Michael W. Coughlin , Kishalay De , Gwendolyn Eadie , Tony L. Farnham , Ulrich Feindt , Anna Franckowiak , Christoffer Fremling , Avishay Gal-yam , Suvi Gezari , Shaon Ghosh , Daniel A. Goldstein , V. Zach Golkhou , Ariel Goobar , Anna Y. Q. Ho , Daniela Huppenkothen , Zeljko Ivezic , R. Lynne Jones , Mario Juric , David L. Kaplan , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Michael S. P. Kelley , Thomas Kupfer , Chien-De Lee , Hsing Wen Lin , Ragnhild Lunnan , Ashish A. Mahabal , Adam A. Miller , Chow-Choong Ngeow , Peter Nugent , Eran O. Ofek , Thomas A. Prince , Ludwig Rauch , Jan van Roestel , Steve Schulze , Leo P. Singer , Jesper Sollerman , Francesco Taddia , Lin Yan , Quan-Zhi Ye , Po-Chieh Yu , Igor Andreoni , Tom Barlow , James Bauer , Ron Beck , Justin Belicki , Rahul Biswas , Valery Brinnel , Tim Brooke , Brian Bue , Mattia Bulla , Kevin Burdge , Rick Burruss , Andrew Connolly , John Cromer , Virginia Cunningham , Richard Dekany , Alex Delacroix , Vandana Desai , Dmitry A. Duev , Eugean Hacopians , David Hale , George Helou , John Henning , David Hover , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Justin Howell , Tiara Hung , David Imel , Wing-Huen Ip , Edward Jackson , Shai Kaspi , Stephen Kaye , Marek Kowalski , Emily Kramer , Michael Kuhn , Walter Landry , Russ R. Laher , Peter Mao , Frank J. Masci , Serge Monkewitz , Patrick Murphy , Jakob Nordin , Maria T. Patterson , Bryan Penprase , Michael Porter , Umaa Rebbapragada , Dan Reiley , Reed Riddle , Mickael Rigault , Hector Rodriguez , Ben Rusholme , Jakob van Santen , David L. Shupe , Roger M. Smith , Maayane T. Soumagnac , Robert Stein , Jason Surace , Paula Szkody , Scott Terek , Angela van Sistine , Sjoert van Velzen , W. Thomas Vestrand , Richard Walters , Charlotte Ward , Chaoran Zhang , Jeffry Zolkower

Presented paper describes the basic principles and features of the implementation of a robotic network of optical telescopes MASTER, designed to study the prompt (simultaneous with gamma radiation) optical emission of gamma-ray bursts and…

CANGAROO group has constructed the new large imaging Air \v Cerenkov telescope to exploit hundred GeV region gamma-ray astronomy in March 1999 at Woomera, South Australia. It has a 7m parabolic mirror consisting of 60 small plastic…

The Arizona Robotic Telescope Network (ARTN) project is a long term effort to develop a system of telescopes to carry out a flexible program of PI observing, survey projects, and time domain astrophysics including monitoring, rapid…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 Benjamin J. Weiner , David Sand , Paul Gabor , Chris Johnson , Scott Swindell , Petr Kubanek , Victor Gasho , Taras Golota , Buell Jannuzi , Peter Milne , Nathan Smith , Dennis Zaritsky

The future of cm and m-wave astronomy lies with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a telescope under development by a consortium of 17 countries that will be 50 times more sensitive than any existing radio facility. Most of the key science…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-25 Simon Johnston , Ilana J. Feain , Neeraj Gupta

The Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory (AST/RO) is a 1.7-meter diameter offset Gregorian instrument located at the NSF Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. This site is exceptionally dry and cold, providing opportunities…

The Minerva-Australis telescope array is a facility dedicated to the follow-up, confirmation, characterisation, and mass measurement of bright transiting planets discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) -- a category…

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