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24 September 2012 The improvement of CCD auto-guiding system for 2.5m telescope
Liyan Chen, Zhenchao Zhang, Hang Wang
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Abstract
The CCD Auto-Guiding Star System is a significant part in the telescope control system for minimizing the tracking errors, and acquiring high-resolution data. In this paper, the improved algorithms of the off-axis CCD Auto-Guiding Star System is designed and applied. Especially the de-rotator algorithm is added for the large-field Alt-Az Telescope to keep stars at original positions. The software that can communicate with the CCD camera is designed to collect, analyze and process data, and then sent data to Alt-Az control system in real time less than 160ms. The algorithms to calculate centriod of stars are novel. The experimental results were high-resolution and reliable for system, the RMS of star offset vector can arrive 0.03 pixel. In addition, experiments showed that the software could work steadily in long time. Now the CCD Auto-guiding software has been applied on the f/8 reflecting Alt-Az telescope with 2.5m aperture, 1-degree field of view.
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Liyan Chen, Zhenchao Zhang, and Hang Wang "The improvement of CCD auto-guiding system for 2.5m telescope", Proc. SPIE 8451, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy II, 84512K (24 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925642
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KEYWORDS
Stars

Charge-coupled devices

Telescopes

Data processing

Control systems

Detection and tracking algorithms

Image processing

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