Re: On Line Astronomy

[Doug Welch <welch@physics.mcmaster.ca>]

Tom et al,

Are you aware of the "observatory" project on SourceForge? Seems
like it would allow you to do most of what you intend to do with this
idea!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/observatory

Cheers,
Doug

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 00:34, droege@snapmail.us wrote:
> Now that I am "on line" I think it would be fun to set up one of the
> telescopes that is under contruction as a real time data collection
> machine.
> 
> I am getting set up so that we can run Rob Creager's software over the
> internet.  The first project will be to run the test bench.  Then we will
> run TOM1.  If this all can be made to work, then I can devote TOM5 to
> being available over the internet to be scheduled as users desire.
> 
> I see no reason why someone could not manage everything remotely.  Set up
> the schedule, take data, and process it all from a remote location.
> 
> Anyone out there want to help to make this possible?
> 
> Tom Droege