Design of a New Telescope Control System for Use in Astronomical Transient Events
Abstract: Robotic autonomous
telescopes provide highlevel control by selecting astronomical targets for
observation, and they usually run under the control of a scheduler. TalonVIEW
is a newly designed robotic autonomous telescope control system (TCS) for 16
inches telescope mount for use in astronomical transient events. The telescope
control algorithm was implemented in PXI chassis written in GProgramming
(LabVIEW) on realtime operating system(PharLab) from scratch. A new TCP/IP
library was also implemented in Talon software to communicate with Pharlab in
PXI chassis. Initial setup without any permanent pier and polar alignment
showed that the pointing error of the telescope has been obtained as 2.22
arcminutes (132 arcseconds) in RA axis (horizontal axis of the image) and 25
arcseconds in Dec axis (vertical axis of the image), and tracking error has
been observed as 4.8 arcseconds per second.
Keywords: Autonomous Robotic
Telescopes, Astronomical Transient Events, G-Programming Telescope Control
Software
Author: Selcuk Helhel, Murat
Dindar, Ekrem Kandemir, Saniye Dindar, Tuncay Ozisik
Journal Code: jptkomputergg160205
