|
Telescope control and robotics |
|
Development of robotic telescopes and instruments, implementation of innovative software solutions for data reduction, archiving and "gridification".
The robotic telescopes STELLA, RoboTel, and ICE-T are controlled from the Media and Communication Center (MCC).
|
 |
 |
AGW at LBT |
 |
Acquisition, Guiding and
Wavefront sensing unit for the Large Binocular Telescope, Mt. Graham, Arizona. It will collect the light with two 8.4m mirrors.
|
|
|
STELLA |
 |
Robotic telescopes for stellar activity. Instruments are an Echelle spectrograph and a wide-field imaging photometer.
|
|
|
RoboTel |
 |
RoboTel is a smaller copy of STELLA. It serves as a robotic test telescope as well as for educational purposes.
|
|
|
MCC |
 |
Media and Communication Center on the AIP campus focusing on robotic telescopes and instruments
|
|
|
ARENA |
 |
Antarctic Research, a European Network for Astrophysics, aimed at fostering optical and
infrared astronomy in Antartica, and primarily at Dome C Concordia
|
|
|
ICE-T |
 |
International Concordia Explorer Telescope for wide-field high-precision photometry from the Antarctic
|
