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The Cerro Tololo Data System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Barry M. Lasker
Barry M. Lasker*
Affiliation:
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory*

Extract

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As early as 1968, increases in the complexity of photoelectric observing programs and the variety of sophisticated photometric instruments in use at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory necessitated the acquisition of a digital data-recording and instrumentation-control system. The diversity of projects to be done with such a system and the obvious need of provisions for extensive future modification and expansion made apparatus oriented around hard-wired logic clumsy and uneconomical. Clearly, the heart of the system was to be a digital computer.

Type
Part I. Control of Telescopes
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 11: Automation in Optical Astrophysics , 1971 , pp. 12 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Observatory 1971