TUY 40 Telescope Control System based on LabVIEW
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (ICCESEN), Antalya, Turkey, 25 - 29 October 2014, vol.1, no.1, pp.1, (Full Text)
- Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
- Volume: 1
- City: Antalya
- Country: Turkey
- Page Numbers: pp.1
- Akdeniz University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
Events and transients are becoming more and more crucial in modern astronomy such as supernovae, gamma – ray bursts and so on. VOEvent messages have all information to make the follow – up observations for transients and events which forces the scientists to make robotic observations. Robotic autonomous telescopes usually run under the control of a scheduler, which provides high – level control by selecting astronomical targets for observation. TUY 40 is a new robotic autonomous telescope control system designed by TÜBİTAK National Observatory. TUY 40 is based on 16” Meade LX-200 telescope mount and optical tube without any Meade electronic components. The telescope control software (TCS) developed on open – source OCAAS software and LabVIEW is presented. The algorithm for telescope control (slewing, tracking, homing etc.) was implemented in National Instruments PXI chassis written in LabVIEW real – time software from scratch. OCAAS is an open – source software based on the GNU/C UNIX platform. A new TCP/IP library was implemented within OCAAS software to communicate with hard real – time TCS in LabVIEW PXI chassis via TCP/IP.