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Upgrading of the Lick-Gaertner Automatic Measuring System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

L.B. Robinson
Affiliation:
Lick Observatory, Santa Cruz, Calif., U.S.A.
S. Vasilevskis
Affiliation:
Lick Observatory, Santa Cruz, Calif., U.S.A.

Abstract

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The Automatic Measuring System (Lick Obs. Bull., No. 598, 1971) was built according to a design developed in 1959. Technological advances since then, particularly in small computers and in electronic component reliability, offered an opportunity for a substantial upgrading of the system. Most of the electronic circuitry has been replaced using modern components, and a PDP-8 computer has been added to the system. Punched card equipment has been replaced by magnetic tapes.

Type
Session G: Astrometric Techniques
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974