Research Catalog

Title

Robotic telescopes : current capabilities, present developments, and future prospects for automated astronomy : proceedings of a symposium held as part of the 106th annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Flagstaff, Arizona, 28-30 June 1994 / edited by Gregory W. Henry and Joel A. Eaton.

Publication

San Francisco : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Henry, Gregory W.
• Eaton, Joel A.
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Annual Meeting (106th : 1994 : Flagstaff, Ariz.)

Description

xv, 270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 79

Uniform Title

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 79.

Alternative Title

Robotic telescopes and automated astronomy

Subjects

• Telescopes > Automatic control > Congresses
• Computerized instruments > Congresses
• Robotics > Congresses

Note

• "A symposium on Robotic Telescopes and Automated Astronomy was held ..."--Preface.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Conference Summary: Looking Inward / Virginia Trimble -- The Phoenix 10 Automatic Photometric Telescope: An Update / Michael A. Seeds -- APT Observations of Small-Amplitude Red Variables: Science and Psychology / John R. Percy and Winnie Au -- The Four College Consortium APT: The First Four Years / Robert J. Dukes, Jr., William R. Kubinec, Harold L. Nations, Saul J. Adelman, Diane P. Smith, Edward F. Guinan and George P. McCook -- The Fairborn/TSU Robotic Telescope Operations Model / Gregory W. Henry -- The Development of Precision Robotic Photometry / Gregory W. Henry -- Variable Stars in the Hertzprung-Russell Diagram / Douglas S. Hall -- Integrated Telescope and CCD Control on a PC / Norman L. Markworth -- The Berkeley Automatic Imaging Telescope: An Update / Richard R. Treffers, Alexei V. Filippenko, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Young Paik and Michael W. Richmond -- The Micro-Observatory: An Automated Telescope for Education / P. Steven Leiker, Philip M. Sadler and Kenneth Brecher.
• Flexible Scheduling of Automatic Telescopes over the Internet / Mark Drummond, John Bresina, Will Edgington, Keith Swanson, Greg Henry and Ellen Drascher -- Automated Telescope Monitoring and Diagnosis / Christine M. Monahan, F. A. Patterson-Hine and David L. Iverson -- Diagnostic Algorithms and Health Monitoring of Automatic Telescopes / Kenneth M. Valentine, Michael A. Donahue and Robert W. Valentine -- Operations Issues for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope / Phillip W. Kelton and Mark E. Cornell -- Automating Mission Scheduling for Space-Based Observatories / Nicola Muscettola, Barney Pell, Othar Hansson and Sunil Mohan -- Scheduling the IUE Satellite with Constraint Logic / Bruce McCollum and Mark Graves -- Planning and Scheduling for the Hubble Space Telescope / Glenn E. Miller -- Advances in Autonomous Operations for the EUVE Science Payload and Spacecraft / T. Morgan and R. F. Malina.
• The South Pole Infrared Explorer (SPIREX): Near Infrared Astronomy at the South Pole / Bernard J. Rauscher, Mark Hereld, Hien Nguyen and Scott Severson -- Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector AMANDA: First Data and Outlook / John Lynch -- Small Telescopes and NOAO's New Venture / David L. Crawford -- The Rationale for an Automatic Spectroscopic Telescope / Joel A. Eaton -- A Proposal for a Fiber-Fed Echelle Spectrograph for a Southern-Hemisphere Robotic Telescope / J. B. Hearnshaw -- Network of Oriental Robotic Telescopes / Francois Rene Querci, Monique Querci, Samir Kadiri and Zouhair Benkhaldoun -- Astronomy from the Moon / Jack O. Burns -- A Practical and Affordable Telescope for the Moon / Peter C. Chen, R. J. Oliversen, H. Hojaji, K. B. Ma, M. Lamb and W. K. Chu.

ISBN

0937707988

LCCN

95076336

OCLC

ocm32542071

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries