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Controlling and Monitoring the 0.9-Meter Telescope

Katherine Hall University of Hawaii-Hilo UH-Hilo 0.9m – H ō k ū Ke`a John Hamilton Jay Slivkoff. Controlling and Monitoring the 0.9-Meter Telescope. The Overview. The Project The Design The Results The Conclusion. Photo courtesy of IfA Shows current 24in.

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Controlling and Monitoring the 0.9-Meter Telescope

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  1. Katherine Hall University of Hawaii-Hilo UH-Hilo 0.9m – Hōkū Ke`a John Hamilton Jay Slivkoff Controlling and Monitoring the 0.9-Meter Telescope

  2. The Overview • The Project • The Design • The Results • The Conclusion Photo courtesy of IfA Shows current 24in

  3. Location, Location, Location Photo courtesy of Jay Slivkoff Shows current 24in

  4. Acronyms Used • FTP – File Transfer Protocol • XAMPP – X (any amount of number of Operating Systems (OS)) Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl • TCS – Telescope Control System • LabVIEW – Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench Photo courtesy of IfA Shows current 24in

  5. My Project • WebCam installed on UH 88in • Historical Archives • Monitoring weather • LabVIEW • Used for creating a user-friendly TCS • Ideal for student usage • FreeAgent Pro • External hard drive • Storage of images for archives The current 24in telescope as viewed through the department webcam. Taken by Katherine Hall

  6. Quick Facts

  7. Quick Facts

  8. Webcam Controls

  9. LabVIEW Controls

  10. Conclusion • Programmed Webcam for recording and uploading images • User-friendly Control Panel • Hōkū Ke`a Manual • Back-ups of all images from webcam on FreeAgent Pro Looking out over Mauna Kea with webcam. Taken by Katherine Hall

  11. References • Natural Instruments Corporation. NI Developer Zone. [updated 24 June 2008; cited 27 June 2008]. < http://zone.ni.com/dzhp/app/main> • Emrys Design. WebCam Tutorial. 26 June 2008. http://www.littlebeasts.com/webcam-tutorial/web-cam-tutorial.html • Solano, Jessica. UH-Hilo LabVIEW Manual. July 2007.

  12. Acknowledgements • Jay Slivkoff, John Hamilton, Sunny Walker and Robert Fox • The Physics & Astronomy Department at UH-Hilo • Sarah Anderson, Lisa Hunter, Lynne Raschke, Scott Seagroves, Hilary O’Bryan and Akamai Interns • Funding provided through the Center of Adaptive Optics, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center (STC),

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