General Philosophy for the Control and Data Reduction for the Anglo-Australian and William Herschel Telescopes' Echelle Spectrographs

C. J. Hirst; D. D. Walker; F. Diego; A. C. Fish; A. Charalambous

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General Philosophy for the Control and Data Reduction for the Anglo-Australian and William Herschel Telescopes' Echelle Spectrographs

C. J. Hirst, D. D. Walker, F. Diego, A. C. Fish, A. Charalambous

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Two almost identical échelle spectrographs are under construction: for the 3.9m Anglo-Australian (AAT) and the 4.2m William Herschel (WHT) telescopes. The versatility of the optical design requires the simultaneous control of many mechanical functions, so a high level of automation under computer control is essential. The control and data reduction software packages will be highly interactive and will be implemented at the observatories and at home institutions, allowing prospective users to test the feasibility of proposed observing programs. Then, at the observatory, the accumulating data can be preliminarily reduced allowing real-time decisions to be made. The data reduction package should find applications to échelle data generally and the control system may easily be adapted to other instruments.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Instrumentation in Astronomy VI
Editors	David L. Crawford
Publisher	SPIE
Pages	721-729
Number of pages	9
Volume	0627
ISBN (Print)	9780892526628
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.968152
Publication status	Published - 13 Oct 1986
Externally published	Yes
Event	1986 Astronomy Conferences - Tucson, United States Duration: 1 Mar 1986 → 2 Mar 1986 Conference number: 4

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Publisher	SPIE
Volume	0627
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	1986 Astronomy Conferences
Country/Territory	United States
City	Tucson
Period	1/03/86 → 2/03/86

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Hirst, C. J., Walker, D. D., Diego, F., Fish, A. C., & Charalambous, A. (1986). General Philosophy for the Control and Data Reduction for the Anglo-Australian and William Herschel Telescopes' Echelle Spectrographs. In D. L. Crawford (Ed.), Instrumentation in Astronomy VI (Vol. 0627, pp. 721-729). (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 0627). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.968152

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General Philosophy for the Control and Data Reduction for the Anglo-Australian and William Herschel Telescopes' Echelle Spectrographs. / Hirst, C. J.; Walker, D. D.; Diego, F. et al.

Instrumentation in Astronomy VI. ed. / David L. Crawford. Vol. 0627 SPIE, 1986. p. 721-729 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 0627).

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