TEST - The Tautenburg Exoplanet Search Telescope

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2008-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/0807.4844v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Proc. of'Transiting Planets', IAU Symposium 253

Scientific paper

10.1017/S1743921308026598

The Tautenburg Exoplanet Search Telescope (TEST) is a robotic telescope system. The telescope uses a folded Schmidt Camera with a 300mm main mirror. The focal length is 940mm and it gives a 2.2 square degree field of view. Dome, mount, and CCD cameras are controlled by a software bundle made by Software Bisque. The automation of the telescope includes selection of the night observing program from a given framework, taking darks and skyflats, field identification, guiding, data taking, and archiving. For the search for transiting exoplanets and variable stars an automated psf photometry based on IRAF and a lightcurve analysis based on ESO-Midas are conducted. The images and the results are managed using a PostgreSQL database.

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