Running MONET and SALT with Remote Telescope Markup Language 3.0
Abstract
Complex robotic and service observations in heterogenous networks of telescopes require a common telescopic lingua franca for the description and transport of observing requests and results. Building upon the experience gained within the Hands-On Universe (HOU) and advanced amateur communities with Remote Telescope Markup Language (RTML) Version 2.1 (http://sunra.lbl.gov/rtml), we have implemented a revised RTML syntax (Version 3.0) which is fully capable of
- running the two 1.2m MONET robotic telescopes for a very inhomogeneous clientel from 3 research institutions and high school classes all over the world; - connecting MONET to the HOU telescope network; - connecting MONET as a trigger to the 11m SALT telescope; - providing all the objects needed to perform and document internet-based user support, ranging all the way from proposal submission and time-allocation to observation reports.- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #202
- Pub Date:
- May 2003
- Bibcode:
- 2003AAS...202.3809H