REM: Automatic for the People

We present the result of a year-long effort to think, design, build, realize, and manage the robotic, autonomous REM observatory, placed since June 2003 on the cerro La Silla, ESO Chile. The various aspects of the management and control are here surveyed, with the nice ideas and the wrong dead ends...

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Published in:Advances in astronomy 2010-01, Vol.2010 (1)
Main Authors: Molinari, Emilio, Covino, Stefano, D'Alessio, Francesco, Fugazza, Dino, Malaspina, Giuseppe, Nicastro, Luciano, Stefanon, Mauro, Testa, Vincenzo, Tosti, Gino, Vitali, Fabrizio
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Language:English
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Astronomy
Cameras
Design
Optics
Satellites
Telescopes
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Summary:We present the result of a year-long effort to think, design, build, realize, and manage the robotic, autonomous REM observatory, placed since June 2003 on the cerro La Silla, ESO Chile. The various aspects of the management and control are here surveyed, with the nice ideas and the wrong dead ends we encountered under way. Now REM is offered to the international astronomical community, a real, schedulable telescope, automatic for the People.
ISSN:1687-7969
1687-7977
DOI:10.1155/2010/253675