RTS2: A powerful robotic observatory manager

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6274, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kubánek, Petr ^a,b   Jelínek, Martin ^c   Vítek, Stanislav ^c   De Ugarte Postigo, Antonio ^c   Nekola, Martin ^a,d   French, John ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^d CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Robotic telescopes; Telescope Software

Indexed keywords

REMOTE TELESCOPE SYSTEM; ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY MANAGER; ROBOTIC TELESCOPES; TELESCOPE SOFTWARE;

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; OBSERVATORIES; ROBOTICS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749636880     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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