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DATA BACK-UP ROUTER WEATHER STATION MOUNTCCDSERVICESMOUNTCCDSERVICESMOUNTCCDSERVICES 16 INCH 20 INCH DOME WIDE FIELD PRIMARY PC IMAGES WEATHER DATA.

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4 DATA BACK-UP ROUTER WEATHER STATION MOUNTCCDSERVICESMOUNTCCDSERVICESMOUNTCCDSERVICES 16 INCH 20 INCH DOME WIDE FIELD PRIMARY PC IMAGES WEATHER DATA ACCESS TO OBSERVATORIES VNC REMOTE CONTROL ACP WEB BROWSER CONTROL FTP DATA ACCESS NETWORK SWITCH

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9 Safety considerations Hardwired limit switches for telescopes axis and focus motion over travel (do not trust mount software alone!) Multiple Hardwired limit switches for observatory roof control. Hardwired interlocks from weather station to close the observatory in the event that the weather station PC, or software locks up Emergency power backup to close the roof in the event the mains power fails (Gel Cell and relay system) Emergency stop for roof and telescope motion. Mirror cover to automatically close, to keep the sun off the mirror in the event the roof does not close.

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13 Software VNC (remote access) ACP (Observatory control) MaximDL (CCD control) Auxiliary controller (Services control: Visual Basic) DATWeather (Weather station: Visual Basic) AMCAP (webcam monitoring) Cartes du Ciel (local sky view) SciTech Controller/Meade Autostar (Telescopes) Filezilla/WinSCP (FTP data transfer)

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17 Data Dome:74,000 images = 80 GB (Last 4 years) Wide Field:50,000 images = 259 GB (Last 3 years) 16F4:380 images = 300 MB (Last 0 years) 2 Telescopes on a good night if clear >1200 images = >3 GB data! Average of 84 images every night over the last 4 years, but most nights are cloudy! (< 10% clear?) Imagine the numbers if every night was clear!! When all 3 Telescopes are on sky, they could do approx 2000 objects (lots of data) per night, every night.....if it‘s clear...which often it’s not!

18 In Development Auto restart observational plan when weather becomes ‘SAFE’ again the same night (works on 16F4) Accurate Dew point measurements and temperature control of optics (work started on Arduino development) Greater access to data by LAS members (Google Drive?) LAS members to submit observational plans Transient Astronomy capability (GRB follow up etc) ACP7 Automatically detect Supernova in images (not easy!) Upgrade Telescope in the Dome (Upgrade to 30 inch primary with instrument rotator: New CCD, Planetary camera, Medium Res Spectrograph and eyepiece capability) Future

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