The Huntsman Telescope: lessons learned from building an autonomous telescope from COTS components

Anthony Horton; Lee Spitler; Wilfred Gee; Fergus Longbottom; Jaime Alvarado-Montes; Amir Bazkiaei; Sarah Caddy; Steven Lee

doi:10.1117/12.2539579

3 January 2020 The Huntsman Telescope: lessons learned from building an autonomous telescope from COTS components

Anthony Horton, Lee Spitler, Wilfred Gee, Fergus Longbottom, Jaime Alvarado-Montes, Amir Bazkiaei, Sarah Caddy, Steven Lee

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Proceedings Volume 11203, Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019; 1120306 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2539579
Event: ANZCOP, 2019, Melbourne, Australia

Abstract

The Huntsman Telescope* is a wide field imager based on the successful Dragonfly Telescope concept.¹ It consists of an array of co-aligned telephoto DSLR lenses with cooled CCD cameras. The ten 140 mm apertures have a combined collecting area equivalent to a 0.5 m class telescope but have lower stray light levels than a typical telescope of this size.^{1, 2} Its primary purpose is low surface brightness imaging of nearby galaxies, and it also observes exoplanet transits and other optical transients.

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Anthony Horton, Lee Spitler, Wilfred Gee, Fergus Longbottom, Jaime Alvarado-Montes, Amir Bazkiaei, Sarah Caddy, and Steven Lee "The Huntsman Telescope: lessons learned from building an autonomous telescope from COTS components", Proc. SPIE 11203, Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019, 1120306 (3 January 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2539579

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