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The Taurus Observatory at DAV - The Sign of the Ox |
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This website is hosted on a tiny Parallax Pink webserver which resides at the observatory. It's connected to a BOE board with a BasicStamp 24P microcontroller with a Sensirion Temp/Humidity sensor which is providing the temperature and humidity information. I control the AC power on 16 different devices by the use of 2 DLI Web Power Switches |
Future Projects:
Eventually I would like to make this observatory completely usable from a remote location and perhaps even fully automated. Think of the observatory as just a big (expensive) robot! I'm using a iMAC PC in my control room with external monitor to talk to my telescope and camera server and the other computers in the observatory. My main server is a "headless" Compaq server running Vista (yuck). It's main function is to control both the Meade LX200GPS telescope and CCD camera. I use a Toshiba laptop in the observing area when I'm first setting up the telescope and camera and to run a webcamera and other misc. things. I'm starting to experiment with an ACER Aspire One Netbook to control the new Celestron C11 scope and CGE mount. |
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