A Low-Cost Automatic Telescope and Modular Photo-polarimeter
Abstract
The low-cost Hall-sensor solution to the problem of positioning the telescope/photopolarimeter proved to be accurate and, once the installation problems were overcome, reliable. But this was not achieved without a cost in complexity of software and in requirements for a fast microprocessor. This approach can then provide a low-cost, highly reliable solution for an automated positioning system.
- Publication:
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New Generation Small Telescopes
- Pub Date:
- 1987
- Bibcode:
- 1987ngst.symp..307G