1m SPIE 2010 poster

Poster to presented at 2010 SPIE conference:

LCOGT Telescope Network Capabilities (pdf, 627kB) by A. Pickles, W. Rosing, T.M. Brown, J. de Vera, M. Dubberley, B. Haldeman, S. Hausler, R. Haynes, A. Hjelstrom, R. Lobdill, D. Mullins, V. Posner, J. Tufts, Z. Walker + LCOGT staff

Network Summary

• TAC layer to receive science applications and assign network time
  • Educational time is assigned in parallel.
• Scheduling layer to assign targets to nodes at each site.
  • updated monthly, weekly, daily, and more frequently for ToO.
  • Operations layer to manage all sites:
  • weather, enclosures, telescopes, instruments
• jTCS layer with astrometric kernel (Tpoint) for each telescope node
  • manage drives, servos, collimation/focusThe point at which a lens or mirror forms an image of a distant point of light. blackfins etc.
• Data layer For LCOGT the telescope IS the network.
  • flash processing at each site for initial Quality Assurance
  • data transfer to Santa Barbara (SBA)
  • pipeline processing and data serving to PIs and (after 12 months) to world.