A generic, object-oriented telescope control system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4848, Issue , 2002, Pages 261-270

  Etherton, Jason ^a   Steele, Iain A ^a  

^a Astrophysics Research Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control; Generic; Java; Object oriented; Software; System; Telescope

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SERVERS;

GENERIC; NEXT GENERATION TELESCOPE CONTROL SYSTEM; OBJECT ORIENTED TELESCOPE CONTROL SYSTEM;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0036988034     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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