Technical and software upgrades completed and planned at OARPAF
Date Issued
2020
Author(s)
Abstract
We present technical, instrumental, and software upgrades completed and
planned at astronomical observatory called "Osservatorio Astronomico Regionale
Parco Antola, Fascia" (OARPAF), hosting an 80cm, alt-az Cassegrain-Nasmyth
telescope. The observatory, located in the Ligurian Apennines, can currently be
operated either for scientific (photometry camera) or amateur (ocular)
observations, by switching the tertiary mirror between the two Nasmyth foci
using a manual handle. The main scientific observational topics are related up
to now to exoplanetary transits, QSOs, and gravitationally lensed quasars, and
results are being recently published. A remotization and robotization strategy
of the entire structure (telescope, dome, instruments, sensors and monitoring)
have been set up and it is in progress. We report the current upgrades, mainly
related for what concerns the "hardware" side to the robotization of the dome.
On the instrumentation side, a new modular support for instruments with
spectrophotometric capabilities is on a preliminary design phase, improving the
telescope performances and broadening the potential science fields. In this
framework, the procurement of spectrophotometric material has started. On the
software side, an innovative web-based software relying on websockets and
node.js can already be used to control the camera, and it will be extended to
manage the other components of the instrument, of the observatory, and of the
image database storage.
Coverage
VI Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories
All editors
Castro-Tirado, Alberto J.; Pandey, Shashi B.; Caballero-García, María Dolores
Volume
Vol. 53
Start page
14
Conferenece
VI Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories
Conferenece place
Mazagón, Huelva (Spain)
Conferenece date
September 30 - October 4, 2019
Issn Identifier
1405-2059
Ads BibCode
2021RMxAC..53...14R
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open.access
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