TRICERASCOPE: An Update on the Triple Threat Robotic Telescope of the College of Southern Nevada

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Jan 2009

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #474.11; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.429

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With over 35000 students and three primary campuses, the College of Southern Nevada is the largest college or university in the state, with about one-third of the total state college enrollment. It is also the largest provider of astronomy education, with a total of over forty sections of introductory astronomy classes and labs in the Fall of 2008, six full time astronomy faculty, and a busy planetarium which was recently upgraded to a digital projector. Unfortunately, it is also located in the light pollution capital of human space, Las Vegas, Nevada. But to counterbalance that somewhat, we do have over 300 clear, sunny days per year. This led us to develop Tricerascope, our triple threat robotic telescope. Given the busy teaching schedules of our faculty, Tricerascope was designed to use, as much as possible, commercial, off-the-shelf technology. The primary hardware consists of a Coronado Solarmax 60 Halpha telescope with a bandpass of < 0.7 Angstroms, and a TeleVue-60 APO refractor equipped with a white-light Baader AstroSolar filter. The solar telescopes themselves are piggy-backed on an eight inch Meade LX200 GPS which resides in a Technical Innovations RoboDome. In the past three years we have significantly upgraded the cameras used on all three telescopes as well as the telescope control software. We will detail those upgrades here and show example daytime solar images along with a few nighttime Halpha images from the Meade SCT

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