Bibcode
Sosa, Nicolas A.; Moreno, Heidy; Gonzalez, Juan C.; Hammersley, Peter; Martin, Carlos; Espinosa, Jose M.; Rodriguez-Ramos, Luis F.; Mack, Brian
Referencia bibliográfica
Proc. SPIE Vol. 2479, p. 152-159, Telescope Control Systems, Patrick T. Wallace; Ed.
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6
1995
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Descripción
The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) is taking preliminary
steps towards the building of an 8-m class optical-infrared telescope to
be placed at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos (ORM) on the
island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain. This paper presents a
brief description of the preliminary conceptual design of the control
system for the telescope and its instrumentation in all planned modes of
observation and configurations. An outline of the devices that are to be
controlled and the functions that are to be performed is presented,
together with a description of the system architecture. The system will
be distributed and highly modular, and will allow for an easy and
efficient exchange of instruments, focal stations and observing modes.
It will also be designed so that technological upgrades can be
implemented at low cost and minimum down-time.