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....that these telescopes are fully automatic. While the majority of existing ground based automatic telescopes are used for aperture photomerry, automation support for spectroscopy and imaging has been increasing (primarily due to the efforts of R. Kent Honeycurt and Don Epand [3] Genet and Hayes [6] describe automatic photoelectric telescopes in some detail. For the sort of telescope we are considering, the language used to define observation requests is the Automatic Telescope Instruction Set, or ATIS [3] In ATIS a group is the primitive unit to be scheduled and executed. A group is a ....

Genet, R.M., and Hayes, D.S. 1989. Robotic Observatories: A Handbook of Remote-Access Personal-Computer Astronomy. AutoScope Corporation, Ft. Collins, CO.

....oversubscription is eliminated fairly, and the astronomers scientific goals are served. In our application domain, the telescopes are land based and fully automatic; a telescope control computer opens the observatory at twilight and collects data through the night without human assistance [4]. We are implementing an overall automated management system [2; 3] to enable participating astronomers to submit observation requests and obtain results from a remotely located telescope, via electronic communication networks, without the necessity of human intervention. In addition to the ....

Genet, R.M., and Hayes, D.S. 1989. Robotic Observatories: A Handbook of Remote--Access Personal--Computer Astronomy. AutoScope Corp., Ft. Collins, CO.

....the majority of existing ground based automated telescopes are used for aperture photometry, automation support for spectroscopy and imaging has been increasing (primarily due to the efforts of R. Kent Honeycutt and Don Epand) Hall and Genet (1988) give an excellent overview of photometry, and Genet and Hayes (1989) describe automatic photoelectric telescopes in some detail. 1 The language used to define observation requests is the Automatic Telescope Instruction Set, or atis (Boyd, et al. 1993) In atis, a group is the primitive unit to be scheduled and executed. A group is a sequence of telescope ....

....dynamically reschedule due to a change in the quality of observing conditions or due to an urgent observation request received during the night. 3. Advanced Scheduling First, we briefly describe how atis groups are presently scheduled by the atis group selection rules (for more details, see Genet Hayes, 1989); this is also the default behavior of an atis93 compatible telescope controller if the apa does not send a schedule. We next contrast this method of scheduling with the method used by the apa and explain how the apa generated schedules are used during the telescope controller s group ....

Genet, R.M., and Hayes, D.S. 1989. Robotic Observatories: A Handbook of Remote--Access Personal--Computer Astronomy. AutoScope Corporation, Mesa, AZ.

....unattended for significant periods (up to a number of months) These telescopes execute commands provided by an astronomer in such a way that the astronomer is not required to participate in the execution of the observing program. It is in this sense that these telescopes are fully automatic. (Genet and Hayes, 1989, describe automatic photoelectric telescopes in some detail. While the majority of existing ground based automatic telescopes are used for aperture photometry, automation support for spectroscopy and imaging has been increasing (primarily due to the efforts of R. Kent Honeycutt and Don Epand; ....

....version, atis93, also includes commands to obtain ccd camera images. In addition to specifying the syntax and semantics for observation requests and results, the atis standard provides a set of group selection rules that are used to determine the execution order of groups during the night (see Genet and Hayes, 1989). The group selection rules provided by atis essentially implement a first to set in the west policy: at any given point in time the telescope observes the star that will set next. Other group selection rules provided by the atis standard deal with factors such as priority and execution count, ....

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Genet, R.M., and Hayes, D.S. 1989. Robotic Observatories: A Handbook of Remote-Access Personal-Computer Astronomy. AutoScope Corporation, Ft. Collins, CO.

....that these telescopes are fully automatic. While the majority of existing ground based automatic telescopes are used for aperture photometry, automation support for spectroscopy and imaging has been increasing (primarily due to the efforts of R. Kent Honeycutt and Don Epand [3] Genet and Hayes [6] describe automatic photoelectric telescopes in some detail. For the sort of telescope we are considering, the language used to define observation requests is the Automatic Telescope Instruction Set, or atis [3] In atis, a group is the primitive unit to be scheduled and executed. A group is a ....

Genet, R.M., and Hayes, D.S. 1989. Robotic Observatories: A Handbook of Remote-Access Personal-Computer Astronomy. AutoScope Corporation, Ft. Collins, CO.

.... key aspects of the problem; more details are available elsewhere [4; 6] In this application domain, the telescopes are land based and fully automatic; a telescope control computer opens the observatory at twilight and collects data through the night without human assistance (see Genet and Hayes [8] for details) We are implementing an overall automated management system [6] to enable participating astronomers to submit observation requests and obtain results from a remotely located telescope. This interaction occurs via electronic communication networks, without the necessity of human ....

Genet, R.M., and Hayes, D.S. 1989. Robotic Observatories: A Handbook of Remote--Access Personal--Computer Astronomy. AutoScope Corporation, Mesa, AZ.

....Our domain involves the management and scheduling of ground based, remotely located, fully automatic telescopes. With fully automatic telescopes, the astronomer does not have to be at the observatory and, furthermore, does not have to engage in teleoperation. Fully automatic telescopes (see [ Genet Hayes, 1989 ] can operate unattended for weeks or months. The Automatic Telescope Instruction Set, or atis, Boyd et al. 1993 ] is used to define observation requests. In atis, a group is a command packet containing a sequence of telescope movement commands and instrument commands. A group is the ....

R.M. Genet and D.S. Hayes. Robotic Observatories: A Handbook of Remote--Access Personal--Computer Astronomy. The AutoScope Corporation, Ft. Collins, CO. 1989.

....conclude with some general remarks. The Domain Just In Case scheduling has been developed for a real telescope scheduling domain. This section outlines only key aspects of the domain; more details are available elsewhere: Bresina, et al. 1993) Bresina et al. in press) Genet (1994) and Genet Hayes (1989). In this domain, telescope users electronically submit observation requests to a central location for subsequent scheduling. The requests contain hard constraints, defined by basic physics, and a number of soft preferences. The most important hard constraint is an observing window. Each ....

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