RTS2 — Remote Telescope System, 2nd Version

Kubánek, P.; Jelínek, M.; Nekola, Martin; Topinka, M.; Štrobl, J.; Hudec, R.; Sanguino, T. de J. Mateo; Postigo, A. de Ugarte; Castro‐Tirado, Alberto J.

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“…A dedicated air cooler was also installed to supply cool air to the built-in camera fan. The camera along with mechanical shutter was controlled using the latest version of the RTS2 software (Kubánek et al 2004), which is identical to the one used to control the operation of actual telescopes. The idea of the calibration experiment was to acquire a number of images with different exposures and then study the dependence of the signal level on exposure time.…”

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Testing the nonlinearity of the Moravian Instruments G4‐16000 CCD camera

et al. 2018

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In this paper, we present the results of characterizing the properties of the Moravian Instruments G4‐16000 CCD cameras, based on the Kodak KAF‐16803 chip. Such cameras are widely used in several robotic telescope projects, as well as by amateurs. We demonstrate both large light response nonlinearity (up to tens of percents) and significant bias level instability of these cameras, and outline possible ways of overcoming these problems.

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Testing the nonlinearity of the Moravian Instruments G4‐16000 CCD camera

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“…The entire observatory is driven by the RTS2 observatory management system Kubánek et al (), the mount was robotized locally with REMOTES (Jakubec et al ) controller and servo motor drives, controlled by RTS2.…”

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Applying weighted image coaddition to observations of GRB optical afterglows at the D50 telescope in Ondřejov

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One of the primary observational objectives of the 0.5 m robotic telescope of Ondřejov observatory is the ground-based follow-up of gamma-ray burst triggers.This independent robotic observatory has been in operation since 2008 and has followed up more than a hundred events localized by the Swift or INTEGRAL satellites. We describe the use of the weighted coaddition of astronomical images while applying this method to observations of GRB optical afterglows. We present optical photometric observations of the detected optical afterglows. The collection contains several faint optical afterglows, in some cases a lightcurve is available, in some cases only a single point detection has been achieved. A brief collection of available information is presented for each of the events together with our fitting and analysis.

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“…is is an open source package with the aim to create a modular environment for complete observatory control 6 and is oriented to distributed telescope network 7 It enables script-driven operation, and permits automatic fast reaction to emerging targets of opportunity.…”

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First results of the Test-Bed Telescopes (TBT) project: Cebreros telescope commissioning

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The TBT project is being developed under ESA's General Studies and Technology Programme (GSTP), and shall implement a test-bed for the validation of an autonomous optical observing system in a realistic scenario within the Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The goal of the project is to provide two fully robotic telescopes, which will serve as prototypes for development of a future network.The system consists of two telescopes, one in Spain and the second one in the Southern Hemisphere. The telescope is a fast astrograph with a large Field of View (FoV) of 2.5 x 2.5 square-degrees and a plate scale of 2.2 arcsec/pixel. The tube is mounted on a fast direct-drive mount moving with speed up to 20 degrees per second. The focal plane hosts a 2-port 4K x 4K back-illuminated CCD with readout speeds up to 1MHz per port. All these characteristics ensure good survey performance for transients and fast moving objects.Detection software and hardware are optimised for the detection of NEOs and objects in high Earth orbits (objects moving from 0.1-40 arcsec/second). Nominal exposures are in the range from 2 to 30 seconds, depending on the observational strategy. Part of the validation scenario involves the scheduling concept integrated in the robotic operations for both sensors. Every night it takes all the input needed and prepares a schedule following predefined rules allocating tasks for the telescopes. Telescopes are managed by RTS2 control software, that performs the real-time scheduling of the observation and manages all the devices at the observatory. 1 At the end of the night the observing systems report astrometric positions and photometry of the objects detected.The first telescope was installed in Cebreros Satellite Tracking Station in mid-2015. It is currently in the commissioning phase and we present here the first results of the telescope. We evaluate the site characteristics and the performance of the TBT Cebreros telescope in the different modes and strategies. Average residuals for asteroids are under 0.5 arcsecond, while they are around 1 arcsecond for upper-MEO * and GEO † satellites. The survey depth is dimmer than magnitude 18.5 for 30-second exposures with the usual seeing around 4 arcseconds.

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RTS2 — Remote Telescope System, 2nd Version

Cited by 29 publications

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Testing the nonlinearity of the Moravian Instruments G4‐16000 CCD camera

Testing the nonlinearity of the Moravian Instruments G4‐16000 CCD camera

Applying weighted image coaddition to observations of GRB optical afterglows at the D50 telescope in Ondřejov

First results of the Test-Bed Telescopes (TBT) project: Cebreros telescope commissioning

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