Software controls for the ATST solar telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5496, Issue , 2004, Pages 518-527

  Goodrich, Bret D ^a   Wampler, Stephen B ^a  

^a NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ATST; Solar telescope; Telescope control system

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA HANDLING; DATA REDUCTION; INFRARED RADIATION;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SOLAR TELESCOPE (ATST); OBSERVATORY CONTROL SYSTEM (OCS); SOLAR TELESCOPE; TELESCOPE CONTROL SYSTEM;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444289169     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550711     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. Keil, S., et. al., "Advanced Technology Solar Telescope: Conceptual Design and Status", Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5489-45.
2. Wampler, S., Goodrich, B., "An implementation of the ATST Virtual Instrument Model", Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5496-40.
3. Information on the ATST project may be found at http://atst.nso.edu.
4. Goodrich, B. "ATST Telescope Control System Design Requirements", ATST Document SPEC-0019.
5. Henning, Michi, "A New Approach to Object-Oriented Middleware", IEEE Internet Computing, January-February 2004. For more information on ICE see http://www.zeroc.com.
6. TPOINT™ is a commercial software package for telescope pointing developed and written by Patrick Wallace. Information on TPOINT may be found at http://www.tpsoft.demon.co.uk.
7. Goodrich, B., "SOLIS instrument control system", Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4009, p. 167.