The telescope control system supervisory controller for the thirty meter telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6274, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Marshall, Robert E ^a   Daly, Philip N ^a   Sirota, Mark ^b  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b TMT Project Office   (United States)

Author keywords

TCS; Telescope control; Telescope pointing; Telescope software; Thirty Meter Telescope; TMT

Indexed keywords

TELESCOPE CONTROL; TELESCOPE POINTING; TELESCOPE SOFTWARE; THIRTY METER TELESCOPES (TMT);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749384498     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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