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TEST The Tautenburg Exoplanet Search Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2008

Philipp Eigmüller  and
Jochen Eislöffel
Philipp Eigmüller
Affiliation:
Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Sternwarte 5, DE-07778, Tautenburg, Germany
Jochen Eislöffel
Affiliation:
Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Sternwarte 5, DE-07778, Tautenburg, Germany
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Abstract

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The Tautenburg Exoplanet Search Telescope (TEST) is a robotic telescope system. The telescope uses a folded Schmidt Camera with a 300mm main mirror. The focal length is 940mm and it gives a 2.2° × 2.2° field of view. Dome, mount, and CCD cameras are controlled by a software bundle made by Software Bisque. The automation of the telescope includes selection of the night observing program from a given framework, taking darks and skyflats, field identification, guiding, data taking, and archiving. For the search for transiting exoplanets and variable stars an automated psf photometry based on IRAF and a lightcurve analysis based on ESO-Midas are conducted. The images and the results are managed using a PostgreSQL database.

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Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S253: Transiting Planets , May 2008 , pp. 340 - 342
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

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