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Autor:
Ramotholo Sefako, Roufurd Julie, Amanda A. Sickafoose, Willie Koorts, Freya Bovim, Carel van Gend, James O'Connor, Pieter Swanevelder, Egan Loubser, Craig Sass, Stephen Potter, N. Erasmus, Keegan Titus, Hitesh Gajjar, Briehan Lombaard, Hannah L. Worters
Publikováno v:
Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI.
We present an overview of the Intelligent Observatory (IO) and the architecture used at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) to develop instrument and telescope control and monitoring software. The IO aims to link and coordinate the usag
Publikováno v:
Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VII.
Autor:
Amanda A. Sickafoose, Michael Rust, Pieter Swanevelder, Anamparambu N. Ramaprakash, Briehan Lombaard, Egan Loubser, Sakya Sinha, Pravin Chordia, Keegan Titus, Hitesh Gajjar, James O'Connor, Bhushan Joshi, Dave Carter, Carel van Gend, Sujit Punnadi, Craig Sass, Mahesh P. Burse, Hannah L. Worters, Willie Koorts
Publikováno v:
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII.
The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) is currently developing WiNCam, the Wide-field Nasmyth Camera, to be mounted on Lesedi, the observatory’s new 1-metre telescope. This paper discusses the design and results for the remotely-operated
Autor:
Paul Rabe, Jonathan Love, Keith Browne, Martin Wilkinson, Hitesh Gajjar, Eben P. Wiid, Janus D. Brink, J. Christiaan Coetzee
Publikováno v:
Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VII.
The SALT Building Management System (BMS) was designed to control sub-system cooling and environmental control in the telescope chamber as part of ensuring optimal science data quality. With over 400 inputs and output points for monitoring and contro
Autor:
Jayanta Deb Mondol, Hitesh Gajjar
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. 10:579-589
The transport sector contributes significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in South Africa, due to the growth of the economy and population. This study considers the potential impact of introducing alternative vehicle technologies such as electric,
Autor:
Keith Browne, John W. Menzies, Jonathan Love, Hitesh Gajjar, Ockert J. Strydom, David A. H. Buckley, Chris Coetzee, Deon Bester
Publikováno v:
SPIE Proceedings.
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is a 10-m class 91-segment fixed altitude telescope located at Sutherland, South Africa. The segment alignment is maintained by inductively coupled sensors mounted on Sitall brackets beneath the segments. A
Publikováno v:
SPIE Proceedings.
The Southern African Large Telescope has till recently operated without active closed loop control of its Primary Mirror. The reason for this was that there were no suitable edge sensor system available on the market. Recently a system became availab
Autor:
Hitesh Gajjar, Stéphane Royet, Christian Neel, David A. H. Buckley, Philippe Parbaud, John W. Menzies
Publikováno v:
SPIE Proceedings.
The development of an inductive edge sensor is in process for the control of the Southern African Large Telescope’s (SALT)1 segmented mirror primary. The original capacitive edge sensing system was not capable of maintaining the figure of the prima
Publikováno v:
SPIE Proceedings.
At the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), in collaboration with FOGALE Nanotech, we have been testing the recently-developed new generation inductive edge sensors. The Fogale inductive sensor is one technology being evaluated as a possible repl