Applications Of Microcomputers In Optical Astronomy

R. K. Honeycutt; J. E. Kephart; A. A. Henden

doi:10.1117/12.957109

3 May 1979 Applications Of Microcomputers In Optical Astronomy

R. K. Honeycutt, J. E. Kephart, A. A. Henden

Proceedings Volume 0172, Instrumentation in Astronomy III; (1979) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957109
Event: Instrumentation in Astronomy, 1979, Tucson, United States

Abstract

Several applications of microcomputers have been implemented at the Goethe Link Observatory of Indiana University. A dedicated microprocessor acquires encoder information on telescope position and time, processes the data, and displays time, coordinates, airmass, etc. on a video screen. An inexpensive image analysis system to aid in the reduction and interpretation of astronomical vidicon images has also been completed. Grey-scale and color image display, frame registration, image enhancement, hard-copy and other features have been implemented in 8080 FORTH for this system. Instrumentation control and data acquisition applications include a high speed photometer and a S-1 I-SIT vidicon data acquisition system.

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R. K. Honeycutt, J. E. Kephart, and A. A. Henden "Applications Of Microcomputers In Optical Astronomy", Proc. SPIE 0172, Instrumentation in Astronomy III, (3 May 1979); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957109

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