Research Catalog

Title

Telescope control systems : 19-21 April 1995, Orlando, Florida / Patrick T. Wallace, chair/editor ; sponsored and published by SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering.

Publication

Bellingham, Wash., USA : SPIE, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Wallace, Patrick T.
• Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers.

Description

ix, 470 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Proceedings / SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering ; v. 2479

Uniform Title

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering ; v. 2479.

Subject

• Telescopes > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references and author index.

Contents

• Controlling the UKIRT upgrades program / N. P. Rees and S. Hippler -- Control system developments for the Isaac Newton Group of telescopes / M. Fisher, J. D. Wilkes and C. S. Amos -- SKY system for az/el telescope control / A. Conrad -- Remote observing from the bottom up: the architecture of the WIYN telescope control system / J. W. Percival -- Control system for the William Herschel Telescope: performance and recent developments / R. A. Laing -- WIYN telescope graphical user interfaces / D. Mills -- DRAMA: an environment for distributed instrumentation software / J. A. Bailey, T. Farrell and K. Shortridge -- Telescope control system of the Nobeyama Radio Observatory / K.-I. Morita, N. Nakai, M. Ohishi and T. Takahashi -- Architecture of the Effelsberg control system / A. Jessner -- Solar radio telescopes at ETH Zurich / W. Stehling -- Common architecture in the flight software for STIS and NICMOS / I. Becker --
• Flexible configuration for the Lyman FUSE fine-error sensor / R. Lowles and J. P. Hackett -- Managing an internationally distributed software project / R. J. McGonegal -- VLT telescope control software: an overview / K. Wirenstrand -- Software infrastructure for the Keck II telescope / W. Lupton -- Initial proposal for the ORM 8-m telescope control system design / N. A. Sosa, H. Moreno, J. C. Gonzalez, P. Hammersley, C. Martin, J. M. Rodriguez-Espinosa, L. F. Rodriguez-Ramos and B. Mack -- TNG control system: computer architecture, interfacing, and synchronization / C. Bonoli, D. Mancini, F. Bortoletto, L. Corcione, M. D'Alessandro, P. Schipani and R. Stefani -- Time reference system of the VLT / M. Ravensbergen and K. Wirenstrand -- Role of scenarios and walk-throughs in telescope design / S. Wampler -- Modeling control systems for primary mirror supports / M. Fisher, J. Haque, J. D. Wilkes, C. S. Amos and D. J. Steel --
• Command completion within an EPICS database / P. M. McGehee, S. Wampler and K. K. Gillies -- Performance predictions for the Gemini 8-m telescopes / R. J. McGonegal -- Servo simulation and modeling for the Gemini 8-m telescopes / M. K. Burns -- Design of a proximate time optimal servo for the JCMT chopping secondary / S. E. Brooke -- Italian National Galileo Telescope (TNG) control system: hardware, software, and methods adopted to improve the performance of the fully digital drive system / D. Mancini -- Optical telescope drive system modeling / D. Mancini and E. Cascone -- Simple, robust digital controller for the Onsala 20-m radio telescope / M. Olberg, C. Lindeborg, A. Seyf and C. F. Kastengren -- LEST dynamics: a simulation / H. Jakobsson -- Disturbance rejection of the WIYN telescope position control servosystem / S. Ellington --
• Automated tuning of the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland array receivers / N. A. Thatte, R. L. Plambeck, J. B. Lugten, W. Hoffman, L. Urry, D. Thornton and W. J. Welch -- Servosystem of the EISCAT Svalbard antenna / T. Andersen -- VLT tracking and guiding software / B. Gilli -- Encoders for the altitude and azimuth axes of the VLT / M. Ravensbergen, R. Merino and C. P. Wang -- High-resolution encoding using redundant edge detection / L. Saddlemyer and G. F. McLean -- Evaluation of precision tilt sensors for measuring telescope position / R. I. Kibrick, L. B. Robinson and D. J. Cowley -- Telescope alignment: is the zero-coma condition sufficient? / R. K. Bhatia -- WIYN telescope active optics system / N. Roddier, D. R. Blanco, L. W. Goble and C. A. Roddier -- Control software development for a large adaptive optical system / W. H. Corrigan, M. E. Furber, D. F. Ramirez and C. D. Cox -- Active optics system for the CTIO 4-m telescope / G. Schumacher, J. Baldwin, G. Perez and E. Mondaca --
• Image improvement of CFHT's primary mirror: primary mirror autocollimation / E. G. Stokes, D. J. Cowley, C. Cavedoni and T. T. Young -- Image improvement of CFHT's primary mirror: primary mirror cooling / E. G. Stokes, R. Atapattu and R. Hendrix -- Potential precision of segmented mirror figure control / V. I. Sidorov -- Synthesis of optimal regulators for segmented mirror figure control / N. A. Lavrov and V. I. Sidorov -- Mirror support smart actuator / M. R. Williams, M. Pi, J. C. Gonzalez, B. Mack, C. Martin and L. F. Rodriguez-Ramos -- Interactive tool to aid in proposal preparation for the Hubble Space Telescope / A. Bose, G. Miller and A. Gerb -- Computer-assisted proposal submission systems / D. J. Asson -- Observation scheduling and data acquisition with the Subaru control system / J. Noumaru, G. Kosugi, T. Sasaki, T. Aoki, J. Kawai and A. Kidou -- Telescope control systems conference summary / R. J. McGonegal.

ISBN

0819418323

LCCN

94074662

OCLC

ocm32870251

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries