Simonyi Survey Telescope M1M3 control system

Petr Kubánek; Doug Neill; Te-Wei Tsai; Dave Mills; Tiago Ribeiro; Felipe Daruich; Oliver Wiecha

doi:10.1117/12.2629784

29 August 2022 Simonyi Survey Telescope M1M3 control system

Petr Kubánek, Doug Neill, Te-Wei Tsai, Dave Mills, Tiago Ribeiro, Felipe Daruich, Oliver Wiecha

Proceedings Volume 12189, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII; 121890H (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629784
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Abstract

The Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope M1M3 is a lightweight honeycomb 8.4 meter Ohara E- 6 borosilicate glass mirror, cast by the University of Arizona (UofA) Mirror Lab. It combines primary and tertiary mirror surfaces, hence its acronym. Its control software might be referenced as a 3rd generation UofA mirror active control system - after the Multiple Mirror Telescope’s (MMT) and the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory’s (LBTO). The control software uses a combination of LabVIEW Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA),1 C++ (”back office”), and Python/Web (Graphical User Interface (GUI)/Engineering User Interface (EUI) to control the mirror. With the telescope’s first light expected soon, details of control software evolution, performed changes, as well as new development and status are described.

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Petr Kubánek, Doug Neill, Te-Wei Tsai, Dave Mills, Tiago Ribeiro, Felipe Daruich, and Oliver Wiecha "Simonyi Survey Telescope M1M3 control system", Proc. SPIE 12189, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII, 121890H (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629784

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