Pointing model of new Pi of the Sky detector in Spain

Mikołaj Ćwiok; Lech Mankiewicz; Rafał Opiela; Małgorzata Siudek; Marcin Sokołowski; Aleksander Filip Żarnecki

doi:10.1117/12.905611

6 October 2011 Pointing model of new Pi of the Sky detector in Spain

Mikołaj Ćwiok, Lech Mankiewicz, Rafał Opiela, Małgorzata Siudek, Marcin Sokołowski, Aleksander Filip Żarnecki

Proceedings Volume 8008, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2011; 80080X (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.905611
Event: Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2011, 2011, Wilga, Poland

Abstract

At the end of 2010 the new detector of the Pi of the Sky project was installed in the INTA El Arenosillo Observatory∗ near Huelva, Spain, at the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The robotic telescope consisting of 4 CCD cameras on one parallactic mount was installed in the telescope dome of the BOOTES experiment from IAA. It can monitor about 0.5 steradians of the sky (40x40 degrees) with 10 s time resolution. The device is fully autonomous, designed to work without human supervision. After successful installation it had to be tested and optimally positioned before it started taking data. In this paper we describe in details deteremination of the Pointing Model for the new detector.

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Mikołaj Ćwiok, Lech Mankiewicz, Rafał Opiela, Małgorzata Siudek, Marcin Sokołowski, and Aleksander Filip Żarnecki "Pointing model of new Pi of the Sky detector in Spain", Proc. SPIE 8008, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2011, 80080X (6 October 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.905611

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