Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997pasp..109..697s&link_type=abstract
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, v.109, p.697-706
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
98
Telescopes
Scientific paper
We describe the University of Vienna twin automatic photoelectric telescope (APT) located at the new Fairborn Observatory at Washington Camp in southern Arizona. Not only are the telescopes fully automatic, also the observatory itself is automatic. A site-control computer monitors weather sensors and operates the roof while the telescope control computer operates the photometer and accepts input files from and provides nightly observations to the astronomer; no direct operating personnel is needed. Both telescopes have 0.75-m primary mirrors, a CCD finder camera, and an environmentally controlled single-channel photoelectric photometer with filter combinations optimized for use in the blue (Wolfgang) and in the red (Amadeus) wavelength for asteroseismology of non-radially pulsating variables, and for monitoring asymtotic-giant-branch stars. Some first results are presented. (SECTION: Astronomical Instrumentation)
Boyd Louis J.
Epand Donald H.
Granzer Th.
Strassmeier Klaus G.
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