Providing data acquisition software for new, high- performance detectors
Read moreControl software for the Cryogenic Infra-red Spectropolarimeter at the University of Hawaii
Read moreObservatory Sciences has completed its first major project based on TANGO software.
Read moreCommissioning of a Spanish 2.5 metre telescope control system.
Read moreObservatory Sciences consultants Chris Mayer and Alan Greer spent January 2013 at the site commissioning the telescope control system for the Multi-Application Solar Telescope (MAST) located in Rajasthan, India.
Read moreReduced costs and accelerated development are key benefits of using commercial-off-the-shelf software for telescope control.
Read moreObservatory Sciences is contracted to provide the control system for a 2.5m wide-field survey telescope based in Spain. The T250 telescope is being built by AMOS in Belgium for the OAJ (Observatorio Astrofisico de Javalambre).
Read moreThe facilities and infrastructure for the Discovery Channel Telescope at a new site in Arizona, USA, are due for completion in 2011, with telescope control software written by Observatory Sciences Ltd.
Read moreSummer 2009 saw Observatory Sciences consultants delivering EPICS training to the CODAC (COntrol, Data Access and Communication) Group at ITER in Southern France.
Read moreObservatory Sciences has begun development work on the control system software for two new telescopes which will be based in India, providing world class observing facilities in the country for ground-based optical astronomy.
Read moreObservatory Sciences is producing the software to control an array of telescopes being built on Magdalena Ridge, New Mexico which will provide ultra high resolution astronomical images.
Read moreA software study for the upgrade of controls for the Hobby-Eberly telescope by consultants from Observatory Sciences is part of a project to help our understanding of the evolution of dark energy.
Read moreObservatory Sciences has undertaken a study, under contract to the European Southern Observatory, to review software options for the controls of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT).
Read moreThe Diamond Light Source synchrotron is now in full operation, but the work of Observatory Sciences consultants Andy Foster and Alan Greer goes on, commissioning further beamlines at the impressive scientific facility - the largest to be built in the UK for over 30 years.
Read moreConsultants from Observatory Sciences assist Accel Instruments with beamline software for the Australian Synchrotron in Melbourne.
Read moreObservatory Sciences has completed the design study for the Observatory Control System for the innovative new Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which is set to redefine the expectations of astronomers and scientists for observational data.
Read moreObservatory Sciences consultants have spanned four continents working on the cutting-edge technology of a new Adaptive Optics system for the Gemini Observatory.
Read moreAn Observatory Sciences / Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory team is designing the telescope control system. The work covers both the control and pointing of the main telescope plus the coordination of all the telescope subsystems.
Read moreThe adaptive optics system (Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics, MCAO) is a new capability being developed for Gemini North and South. It is a major new instrument that will provide significant advances in overcoming the problems of atmospheric turbulence. Observatory Sciences is involved in both the design and the production of the software for this system.
Read moreObservatory Sciences carried out an initial study and then performed the upgrade of the NAOMI software, including commissioning at the telescope.
Read moreObservatory Sciences is designing, developing and implementing the software to adjust the position and shape of the VISTA telescope’s primary (M1) mirror.
Read moreObservatory Sciences provided software effort for production, testing and commissioning of the bHROS software.
Read moreObservatory Sciences has an on-going contract to provide software consultancy and support to the Gemini Observatory.
Read moreObservatory Sciences was responsible for all aspects of the production of the high-level control software for the Calibration Units for each of the Gemini telescopes based in Hawaii and Chile.
Read moreObservatory Sciences provided new position encoders for the telescope, along with bespoke software, thus providing easy monitoring of the telescope's position via a computer monitor.
Read moreAs designers and developers of the main Telescope Control System software, our personnel had the in-depth knowledge and experience of the TCS as well as relevant expertise to develop these interfaces.
Read moreWe worked closely with the UK ATC team producing control software for the Gemini Multiple Object Spectrograph.
Read moreThe Gemini Observatory is an international $180m project, operating twin 8.1 metre reflecting telescopes, one sited in Hawaii and the other in Chile, which together provide complete sky coverage. With overall responsibility for management of the project, we designed and developed the software which controls the telescopes.
Read moreObservatory Sciences developed networked, cross-platform software as part of a new data acquisition system to enable data acquired from the existing VAX control systems to be incorporated in the data files of the new system.
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