Controlling and Monitoring the 0.9-Meter Telescope

Controlling and Monitoring Controlling and Monitoring the 0.9-Meter Telescopethe 0.9-Meter Telescope

Katherine HallKatherine HallUniversity of University of Hawaii-HiloHawaii-Hilo

UH-Hilo 0.9m – HUH-Hilo 0.9m – Hōōkkūū Ke`aKe`a

John HamiltonJohn HamiltonJay SlivkoffJay Slivkoff

The OverviewThe Overview

The Project The Project The DesignThe Design The ResultsThe Results The The

ConclusionConclusion

Photo courtesy of IfAShows current 24in

Location, Location, Location, Location, LocationLocation

Photo courtesy of Jay SlivkoffShows current 24in

Acronyms UsedAcronyms Used

FTP – File Transfer FTP – File Transfer ProtocolProtocol

XAMPP – X (any amount XAMPP – X (any amount of number of of number of Operating Systems Operating Systems (OS)) Apache, MySQL, (OS)) Apache, MySQL, PHP, PerlPHP, Perl

TCS – Telescope TCS – Telescope Control SystemControl System

LabVIEW – Laboratory LabVIEW – Laboratory Virtual Instrument Virtual Instrument Engineering WorkbenchEngineering WorkbenchPhoto courtesy of IfA

Shows current 24in

My ProjectMy Project

WebCam installed on WebCam installed on UH 88in UH 88in Historical ArchivesHistorical Archives Monitoring weatherMonitoring weather

LabVIEWLabVIEW Used for creating a Used for creating a user-friendly TCSuser-friendly TCS

Ideal for student Ideal for student usageusage

FreeAgent ProFreeAgent Pro External hard driveExternal hard drive Storage of images Storage of images for archivesfor archives The current 24in telescope as viewed through the

department webcam. Taken by Katherine Hall

Quick FactsQuick FactsUH-Hilo 24in

Manually OperatedTime Consuming

Instrumentation Testing

Quick FactsQuick FactsUH-Hilo 24in

Manually OperatedTime Consuming

Instrumentation Testing

UH-Hilo 0.9m

Today’sTechnology

Controlled on Campus

UH FacultyResearchers + Students

Webcam ControlsWebcam Controls

LabVIEW Controls

ConclusionConclusion

Programmed Webcam for Programmed Webcam for recording and uploading recording and uploading imagesimages

User-friendly Control User-friendly Control PanelPanel

HHōōkkūū Ke`a Manual Ke`a Manual Back-ups of all images Back-ups of all images

from webcam on FreeAgent from webcam on FreeAgent ProPro

Looking out over Mauna Kea with webcam.Taken by Katherine Hall

ReferencesReferences

Natural Instruments Corporation. Natural Instruments Corporation. NI Developer ZoneNI Developer Zone. [updated 24 . [updated 24 June 2008; cited 27 June 2008]. < June 2008; cited 27 June 2008]. < http://zone.ni.com/dzhp/app/mainhttp://zone.ni.com/dzhp/app/main>>

Emrys Design. Emrys Design. WebCam Tutorial.WebCam Tutorial. 26 26 June 2008. June 2008. http://www.littlebeasts.com/webcamhttp://www.littlebeasts.com/webcam-tutorial/web-cam-tutorial.html-tutorial/web-cam-tutorial.html

Solano, Jessica. Solano, Jessica. UH-Hilo LabVIEW UH-Hilo LabVIEW Manual.Manual. July 2007. July 2007.

AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements

Jay Slivkoff, John Hamilton, Sunny Jay Slivkoff, John Hamilton, Sunny Walker and Robert FoxWalker and Robert Fox

The Physics & Astronomy Department at The Physics & Astronomy Department at UH-HiloUH-Hilo

Sarah Anderson, Lisa Hunter, Lynne Sarah Anderson, Lisa Hunter, Lynne Raschke, Scott Seagroves, Hilary Raschke, Scott Seagroves, Hilary O’Bryan and Akamai InternsO’Bryan and Akamai Interns

Funding provided through the Center of Funding provided through the Center of Adaptive Optics, a National Science Adaptive Optics, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Foundation Science and Technology Center (STC), Center (STC),