1. SAURON: The Wallace Observatory Small AUtonomous Robotic Optical Nightwatcher.
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M. Kosiarek, M. Mansfield, T. Brothers, H. Bates, R. Aviles, O. Brode-Roger, M. Person, and M. Russel
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SPACE telescopes , *COMPUTER software , *BINARY stars - Abstract
The Small AUtonomous Robotic Optical Nightwatcher (SAURON) is an autonomous telescope consisting of an 11-inch Celestron Nexstar telescope on a SoftwareBisque Paramount ME II in a Technical Innovations ProDome located at the MIT George R. Wallace, Jr. Astrophysical Observatory. This paper describes the construction of the telescope system and its first light data on T-And0-15785, an eclipsing binary star. The out-of-eclipse R magnitude of T-And0-15785 was found to be 13.3258 ± 0.0015 R magnitude, and the magnitude changes for the primary and secondary eclipses were found to be 0.7145 ± 0.0515 and 0.6085 ± 0.0165 R magnitudes, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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