The Wolfgang and Amadeus Automatic Photoelectric Telescopes: A "Kleine-Nacht-Musik" during the first five years of routine operation
- Author(s)
- Thomas Granzer, Peter Reegen, Klaus Günter Strassmeier
- Abstract
We present a summary of five years of continuous operation of the University of Vienna twin Automatic Photoelectric Telescopes (APTs) - Wolfgang and Amadeus. These two telescopes are part of the Fairborn Observatory facility located in the Sonoran desert close to Washington Camp in southern Arizona. The detection and distinction procedure between weather-induced data-quality loss and systematic data-quality loss turned out to be a crucial task. Therefore, special emphasis is laid on the data quality monitoring tools developed throughout the years. Furthermore, we summarize the scientific highlights from the first five years of operation. ΠWiley-VCH Verlag Berlin GmbH, 2001.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam
- Journal
- Astronomische Nachrichten
- Volume
- 322
- Pages
- 325-332
- No. of pages
- 8
- ISSN
- 0004-6337
- Publication date
- 2001
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/0c82b4ee-ab26-4af5-b34b-270ad4808a6a