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astro-ph.IM2016★ 14 cited
The Next Generation Transit Survey - Prototyping Phase
James McCormac, Don Pollacco, Peter Wheatley +16
We present the prototype telescope for the Next Generation Transit Survey, which was built in the UK in 2008/09 and tested on La Palma in the Canary Islands in 2010. The goals for…
astro-ph.IM2013★ 56 cited
DONUTS: A science frame autoguiding algorithm with sub-pixel precision, capable of guiding on defocused stars
J. McCormac, D. Pollacco, I. Skillen +3
We present the DONUTS autoguiding algorithm, designed to fix stellar positions at the sub-pixel level for high-cadence time-series photometry, which is also capable of autoguiding…