W O L F G A N G - A M A D E U S
The University of Vienna Twin Automatic Photoelectric Telescope





Wolfgang
Amadeus
Mozart

austrian composer
1756 - 1791

Wolfgang
and
Amadeus

austrian APTs
1996 -




Abstract:

We operate two robotic 75-cm telescopes for photoelectric photometry at Fairborn Observatory in the Sonoran desert near Tucson, Arizona. Not only are the telescopes automatic, but the observatory itself is automatic. A site-control computer monitors weather sensors, operates the observatory roof, and provides a nightly report to the observatory staff, who are located in Vienna.

Full operation of both telescopes commenced in fall 1996 after the telescopes and the logistics were moved to the new site of Fairborn Observatory at Washington Camp about sixty miles south of Tucson, Arizona.


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Principal Investigator:   kstrassmeier@aip· de
APT Conductor:   tgranzer@aip· de
www design:   wasi@aip· de
Last modified: October 11, 2002
April 1997