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This repository contains code for use at Manastash Ridge Observatory (MRO). It provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI), Bifrost, built in Python 2.7 for controlling the primary Ritchey-Chretien Telescope. This GUI is intended to allow control of the telescope as well as a new auto-guiding system being developed for MRO. The new TCC will see first use in Summer 2017.
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- Slewing (Complete)
- Tracking (Complete)
- Jogging (Complete)
- Focusing (Complete)
- Hand Paddle Control (Complete)
- Status Display (Complete)
- Precession (Complete)
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- Target Lists (Complete)
- Target Alt-Az Plotting (Complete)
- Target Airmass Plotting (Complete)
- Target Assignment (Complete)
- Target Finder Chart (Complete)
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- Guider Exposure (In Development)
- Guider Rotation (In Development)
- Periscope Finder Chart (Complete)
- Auto Find Guide Stars (In Development)
- Guiding (In Development)
- Jog Guide Field (In Development)
- Focus Guider (In Development)
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- Park Telescope (Complete)
- Cover Position (Complete)
- Initialize Telescope Systems (Complete)
- Tracking Rate Assignment (Complete)
- Guiding Parameters (In Development)
- Set Telescope Position (Complete)
- Load Zenith Coordinates (Complete)
- Pointing (Complete)
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- Log Fields (In Development)
- Save and Send Logs (In Development)
- WxPython: https://wxpython.org/
- Astropy: http://www.astropy.org/
- Astroplan: https://astroplan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- Astroquery: https://astroquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- Ephem: http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/
- Numpy: http://www.numpy.org/
- Matplotlib: https://matplotlib.org/
- TwistedPython: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/