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Automatic photoelectric telescopes: status and potentials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

David L. Crawford*
Affiliation:
Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, P. O. Box 26732 Tucson, AZ 85726 USA

Abstract

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Automatic photoelectric telescopes now exist. They are currently doing precision photometry of variable stars, fully automatically. More such telescopes will exist in the near future, and they will be doing automatic photometry of all sorts.

Type
I. Telescopes and Instrumentation
Copyright
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