The new Swedish solar telescope control system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4848, Issue , 2002, Pages 539-544

  Dettori, Peter ^a   Hosinsky, Göran ^a  

^a ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Real time; Telescope control systems

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; POSITION CONTROL; SERVOMOTORS;

SOLAR TELESCOPE; TELESCOPE CONTROL SYSTEM;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036988414     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461603     Document Type: Conference Paper

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