Design Concept for the Retrofit KAO 1m Robotic Telescope
Korea Astronomy Observatory (KAO) is working to retrofit its 1m robotic telescope in collaboration with a company (ACE, Astronomical Consultants & Equipment). The telescope system is being totally refurbished to make a fully automatic telescope which can operate in both interactive and fully aut...
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| author | Wonyong Han Peter Mack Jang-Hyun Park Ho Jin Woo-Baik Lee Chung-Uk Lee |
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| description | Korea Astronomy Observatory (KAO) is working to retrofit its 1m robotic telescope in collaboration with a company (ACE, Astronomical Consultants & Equipment). The telescope system is being totally refurbished to make a fully automatic telescope which can operate in both interactive and fully autonomous robotic modes. Progress has been made in design and manufacturing of the telescope mount, mechanics, and optical performance system tests are being made for re-configured primary and secondary mirrors. The optical system is designed to collect 80% incident light within 0.5 arcsec with f/7.5 Ritchey-Chretien design. The telescope mount is an equatorial fork with a friction drive system. The design allows fully programmable tracking speeds with typical range of 15 arcsec/sec with accuracy of +/-5 arcsec/hour. The mount system has integral pointing model software to correct for refraction, and all mechanical errors and misalignments. The pointing model will permit positioning to better than 30 arcsec RMS within 75o from zenith and 45 arcsec RMS elsewhere on the sky. The software is designed for interactive, remote and robotic modes of operation. In interactive and remote mode the user can manually enter coordinates or retrieve them from a computer file. In robotic mode the telescope controller downloads the coordinates in the order determined by the scheduler. The telescope will be equipped with a CCD camera and will be accessible via the internet. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b25206a12062497787b2de30cabb5d102024-01-02T17:47:18ZengThe Korean Space Science SocietyJournal of Astronomy and Space Sciences2093-55872093-14092000-12-01172211220Design Concept for the Retrofit KAO 1m Robotic TelescopeWonyong Han0Peter Mack1Jang-Hyun Park2Ho Jin3Woo-Baik Lee4Chung-Uk Lee5Korea Astronomy Observatory, Taejeon, 305-348, KoreaAstronomical Consultants & Equipment, Inc., P.O. Box 91946, Tucson AZ, USAKorea Astronomy Observatory, Taejeon, 305-348, KoreaKorea Astronomy Observatory, Taejeon, 305-348, KoreaKorea Astronomy Observatory, Taejeon, 305-348, KoreaKorea Astronomy Observatory, Taejeon, 305-348, KoreaKorea Astronomy Observatory (KAO) is working to retrofit its 1m robotic telescope in collaboration with a company (ACE, Astronomical Consultants & Equipment). The telescope system is being totally refurbished to make a fully automatic telescope which can operate in both interactive and fully autonomous robotic modes. Progress has been made in design and manufacturing of the telescope mount, mechanics, and optical performance system tests are being made for re-configured primary and secondary mirrors. The optical system is designed to collect 80% incident light within 0.5 arcsec with f/7.5 Ritchey-Chretien design. The telescope mount is an equatorial fork with a friction drive system. The design allows fully programmable tracking speeds with typical range of 15 arcsec/sec with accuracy of +/-5 arcsec/hour. The mount system has integral pointing model software to correct for refraction, and all mechanical errors and misalignments. The pointing model will permit positioning to better than 30 arcsec RMS within 75o from zenith and 45 arcsec RMS elsewhere on the sky. The software is designed for interactive, remote and robotic modes of operation. In interactive and remote mode the user can manually enter coordinates or retrieve them from a computer file. In robotic mode the telescope controller downloads the coordinates in the order determined by the scheduler. The telescope will be equipped with a CCD camera and will be accessible via the internet.http://ocean.kisti.re.kr/downfile/volume/kosss/OJOOBS/2000/v17n2/OJOOBS_2000_v17n2_211.pdfINSTRUMENTATIONAUTOMATIC TELESCOPE |
| spellingShingle | Wonyong Han Peter Mack Jang-Hyun Park Ho Jin Woo-Baik Lee Chung-Uk Lee Design Concept for the Retrofit KAO 1m Robotic Telescope Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences INSTRUMENTATION AUTOMATIC TELESCOPE |
| title | Design Concept for the Retrofit KAO 1m Robotic Telescope |
| title_full | Design Concept for the Retrofit KAO 1m Robotic Telescope |
| title_fullStr | Design Concept for the Retrofit KAO 1m Robotic Telescope |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design Concept for the Retrofit KAO 1m Robotic Telescope |
| title_short | Design Concept for the Retrofit KAO 1m Robotic Telescope |
| title_sort | design concept for the retrofit kao 1m robotic telescope |
| topic | INSTRUMENTATION AUTOMATIC TELESCOPE |
| url | http://ocean.kisti.re.kr/downfile/volume/kosss/OJOOBS/2000/v17n2/OJOOBS_2000_v17n2_211.pdf |
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