The Huntsman Telescope: Lessons learned from building an autonomous telescope from COTS components

Anthony Horton, Lee Spitler, Wilfred Gee, Fergus Longbottom, Jaime Alvarado-Montes, Amir Bazkiaei, Sarah Caddy, Steven Lee

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    Abstract

    The Huntsman Telescope∗ is a wide field imager based on the successful Dragonfly Telescope concept.1 It consists of an array of co-aligned telephoto DSLR lenses with cooled CCD cameras. The ten 140 mm apertures have a combined collecting area equivalent to a 0.5 m class telescope but have lower stray light levels than a typical telescope of this size.1, 2 Its primary purpose is low surface brightness imaging of nearby galaxies, and it also observes exoplanet transits and other optical transients.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAdvances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019
    EditorsSimon Ellis, Celine d'Orgeville
    PublisherSPIE
    ISBN (Electronic)9781510631465
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020
    EventAdvances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019 - Melbourne, Australia
    Duration: 9 Dec 201912 Dec 2019

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
    Volume11203
    ISSN (Print)0277-786X
    ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

    Conference

    ConferenceAdvances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019
    Country/TerritoryAustralia
    CityMelbourne
    Period9/12/1912/12/19

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