4 papers
Searching for Exoplanets Born Outside the Milky Way: VOYAGERS Survey Design
Robert Aloisi, Andrew Vanderburg, Melinda Soares-Furtado +44
Observations over the past few decades have found that planets are common around nearby stars in our Galaxy, but little is known about planets that formed outside the Milky Way. We…
Final design of Cerberus, a three-headed instrument for the OARPAF telescope
Davide Ricci, Lorenzo Cabona, Davide Greggio +3
Cerberus will be a new scientific instrument for the alt-az, 1m-class OARPAF telescope in Northern Italy. Currently, the telescope operates with a CCD camera used for imaging and p…
Toward the remotization and robotization of the OARPAF telescope
Davide Ricci, Lorenzo Cabona, Silvano Tosi +1
OARPAF (Osservatorio Astronomico Regionale Parco Antola Comune di Fascia, Italy) hosts an 80cm Astelco telescope with a Gambato Dome, SBIG-STX camera, Davis weather station, and SB…
Easy remote observations using web interfaces: controlling an Italian telescope from Japan, and more
Davide Ricci, Lorenzo Cabona, Bernardo Salasnich +5
Remote observations are often limited by user interfaces, which seem frozen to another computer era: low performances, outdated programming languages, command-line scripting, high…