@inproceedings{eff469113b5a45f7aaa3ac00567465dc,
title = "Implementation of the software system for the skyMapper automated survey telescope",
abstract = "This paper describes the software systems implemented for the wide-field, automated survey telescope, SkyMapper. The telescope is expected to operate completely unmanned and in an environment where failures will remain unattended for several days. Failure analysis was undertaken and the control system extended to cope with subsystem failures, protecting vulnerable detectors and electronics from damage. The data acquisition and control software acquires and stores 512 MB of image data every twenty seconds. As a consequence of the short duty cycle, the preparation of the hardware subsystems for the successive images is undertaken in parallel with the imager readout. A science data pipeline will catalogue objects in the images to produce the Southern Sky Survey.",
keywords = "Automated data pipeline, Automated survey telescope",
author = "A. Vaccarella and T. Preston and A. Czezowski and Keller, {S. C.} and Schmidt, {B. P.} and Young, {P. J.}",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1117/12.788450",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780819472298",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy II",
note = "Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy II ; Conference date: 26-06-2008 Through 28-06-2008",
}