Workshop on Automation and Robotic Operation
of Moderate-Sized Telescopes
for Speckle Interferometry
held at the U.S. Naval Observatory, 2-3 June 2014
A small workshop was held at USNO in early June 2014, bringing together people interested in automating telescopes
for speckle interferometric observations of double stars. The planned levels of automation vary, from warm-room
operation of the USNO 26inch refractor and speckle camera to fully robotic observations using specialized telescopes
at remote sites. Talks presented at the workshop are linked below, together with a poster describing the current
status of the PISCO speckle program.
Sunday evening:
Monday morning:
Monday afternoon:
Monday evening:
- Observatory tour, telescope and observing demo
B. Mason & W. Hartkopf
Tuesday morning:
Tuesday afternoon: