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Dear Mr. BingSze,bingsze 寫:........唔知
有冇些現成的..................
Yes.
It happens that we just have one. This is a RCOS 16 inch RC telescope riding on a Paramount. It is robotic ready.
We have been testing it nearly every night since August and it is running stable so far.
Please take a look at attached picture. This telescope is scheduled to be installed onto our roof inside an observatory dome upon January 2009. This will be a totally robotic telescope inside a totally robotic dome, if everything runs according to our plan
Best regards
Chan Yuk Lun
Best regards
Chan Yuk Lun
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- The 16 inch RCOS riding on a Paramount, under testing. It has been robotically maneuvered since August almost every night.
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Wow what a beast!
I'm most interested to know what's the mount controlling software (the Sky6?) in particular any difficulties in between sessions when you have parked the scope last night and now need to acquire a new target.
For any remote observatory, I guess the mount has to be very accurate like Paramount / Takahashi EMs otherwise there might be a need to provide a second wide field CCD just in case the mount misses the target, then you still have a clue of which part of the sky you're generally pointing to. You know the imaging CCD field of view is usually very small.
Sorry for being long winded - is the current remote control set up uilizing a scheme like "PC Anywhere" or is included in the proprietary software so that you can access from anywhere?
Many thanks.
I'm most interested to know what's the mount controlling software (the Sky6?) in particular any difficulties in between sessions when you have parked the scope last night and now need to acquire a new target.
For any remote observatory, I guess the mount has to be very accurate like Paramount / Takahashi EMs otherwise there might be a need to provide a second wide field CCD just in case the mount misses the target, then you still have a clue of which part of the sky you're generally pointing to. You know the imaging CCD field of view is usually very small.
Sorry for being long winded - is the current remote control set up uilizing a scheme like "PC Anywhere" or is included in the proprietary software so that you can access from anywhere?
Many thanks.
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- 夸克星
- 文章: 3847
- 註冊時間: 週四 09 10月, 2003 21:06
Dear Mr. 45,A/45 寫:Wow what a beast!
I'm most interested to know what's the mount controlling software (the Sky6?) in particular any difficulties in between sessions when you have parked the scope last night and now need to acquire a new target.
For any remote observatory, I guess the mount has to be very accurate like Paramount / Takahashi EMs otherwise there might be a need to provide a second wide field CCD just in case the mount misses the target, then you still have a clue of which part of the sky you're generally pointing to. You know the imaging CCD field of view is usually very small.
Sorry for being long winded - is the current remote control set up uilizing a scheme like "PC Anywhere" or is included in the proprietary software so that you can access from anywhere?
Many thanks.
The Paramount is now being controlled by TheSky Version 5, under Window XP O/S. Originally TheSky 5 cannot run under XP but we have downloaded the upgrades from Software Bisque and this enables the software being capable of operating smoothly even under the XP.
The robotic part is a direct application of Windows Remote XP, included inside the Window XP Professional O/S.
At the momenmt we still have no idea of the pointing accuracy of the Paramount. The wholesetup is being tested indoors. For star trails I'm sfraid that we have to wait until Jan 2009.
The whole system is still under devlopment. What you have seen in the attached picure is just part of the whole scenario. Many items are waited to be added - a remote telesocpe cover, a remote control flip mirror system, CCD camera, software developed for remote power control, remote lamp, survellence camera, weather station to automatically shut down the observtory in case of sudden rainfall, parallel port interface ........just to mention a few.
We are now discovering that a robotic observatory is not as simple as we what we first thought of. It is not just plugging a wire into the LAN socket......way far from it.
Best regards
Chan Yuk Lun
Dear Chan Sir,
Thanks very much for your info. This is no simple work really! I guess I'm at the level of fully computer controlling the scope at the spot, i.e. GOTO, focusing, image acquisition etc. without touching the scope. Next step is to put the setup inside an openable shelter and then operating it remotely.
Best regards.
Thanks very much for your info. This is no simple work really! I guess I'm at the level of fully computer controlling the scope at the spot, i.e. GOTO, focusing, image acquisition etc. without touching the scope. Next step is to put the setup inside an openable shelter and then operating it remotely.
Best regards.
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