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What is the Bradford Robotic Telescope?

Using the Bradford Robotic Telescope & VPhot for Variable Star Photometry Richard ''Doc'' Kinne Astronomical Technologist AAVSO. What is the Bradford Robotic Telescope?. A remote, robotic telescope. Operated by the University of Bradford, England Located in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

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What is the Bradford Robotic Telescope?

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  1. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 Using the Bradford Robotic Telescope & VPhot for Variable Star PhotometryRichard ''Doc'' KinneAstronomical TechnologistAAVSO

  2. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 What is the Bradford Robotic Telescope? • A remote, robotic telescope. • Operated by the University of Bradford, England • Located in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain • www.telescope.org

  3. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 Equipment Available • Constellation CameraFLI MaxCam CM2-1 w 1k x1k pixel chip. Opticals are a Nikon 16mm f2.8 lens. • Coverage: 40 sq. degrees • Filters • Red, Green, Blue (RGB system), ND2, Clear

  4. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 Equipment Available • Cluster CameraFLI MaxCam CM2-1 w 1k x1k pixel chip. Opticals are a Nikon 200mm f2.8 lens. • Coverage: ~4.3 sq. degrees • Filters • Red, Green, Blue (RGB system), ND3, Clear

  5. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 Equipment Available • Galaxy Camera!Camera FLI MicroLine 1k x1k chip. Each pixel at 13um sq.Opticals: A Schmidt-Cassegrain Celestron C14 w an effective focal length of 1877mm at f5.3 • Coverage: ~24 arc min. • Filters: Johnson BVRI, OIII, ND3, HA • Yea, This is the One!

  6. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 Setting up a Job

  7. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 Setting up an Object

  8. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 Selecting a Scope

  9. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 Selecting Exposure Time & Filter

  10. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 Interlude – Waiting for the Job • Strengths of the Bradford Robotic Telescope • Simple Interface – meant for education. • Excellent to monitor LPV. • Weaknesses of the Bradford Robotic Telescope • It is not an interactive scope. • You have no control over queue wait time. • Not good for monitoring CVs or quickly following up on on anything. • Cannot do time series.

  11. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 Retrieving your Job – You've Got Mail!

  12. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 Job Details

  13. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 Job Details

  14. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 VPhot

  15. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 Vphot – Uploading Images

  16. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 VPhot – Quick Upload

  17. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 VPhot - Uploading

  18. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 VPhot – The Uploaded Image

  19. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 VPhot – Image Analysis

  20. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 VPhot – Image Analysis

  21. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 VPhot – Image Analysis

  22. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 VPhot – The Photometry Report

  23. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 VPhot – The AAVSO Report

  24. #TYPE=EXTENDED #OBSCODE=KQR #SOFTWARE=VPhot 3.1 #DELIM=, #DATE=JD #OBSTYPE=CCD #NAME,DATE,MAG,MERR,FILT,TRANS,MTYPE,CNAME,CMAG,KNAME,KMAG,AMASS,GROUP,CHART,NOTES RV Tau,2455563.52330,9.597,0.085,V,NO,ABS,ENSEMBLE,na,126,12.625,na,na,4620VM,From the BRT Downloaded to your Computer – aavso_report.txt AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011

  25. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 To WebObs, Star Boy!

  26. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 WebObs – Upload the File

  27. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 WebObs – Review the Observation

  28. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 WebObs – SUCCESS!

  29. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 Thanks! • Mike Simonsen – for CCD concept assistance. • Dr. Arne Henden – for filter concept assistance. • Dr. Aaron Price, Kate Davis, & Will McMain – for WebObs and the AAVSO Website • Geir Klingenberg & Michael Kran – for VPhot! • The BRT Team – for maintaining and keeping the Bradford Robotic Scope available and open!

  30. AAVSO Spring Meeting, 2011 Special Thanks! • Gary Poyner, FRAS – For introducing me to the Bradford Robotic Telescope in particular, and robotic telescope observing in general.Thanks, Mate!

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