Dome side ports

To improve the ventilation of the dome during the night, the telescope building has side ports that consists of 4 sets of 2 doors. For reasons of safety and the general objective of automating telescope operations as much as possible we are motorising the side-ports. A lot of progress was made, where most of the mechanical and electronic parts have been installed, and the computer system commanding the system has been setup. A more flexible, custom made system has been developed to control the side-ports in a more efficient way, but the idea is to first control the system using the controllers supplied with the motors.



Thomas Augusteijn 2014-08-27