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MONET: a MOnitoring NEtwork of Telescopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Frederic V. Hessman
Frederic V. Hessman*
Affiliation:
Universitäts-Sternwarte, Geismarlandstr. 11, 37083 Göttingen, Germany

Abstract

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In an age of 8m-class telescopes, we should rethink the way we use small telescopes. While 2-4m telescopes are still needed and will continue to be operated largely in the traditional fashion, new 1m-class telescopes operated robotically in global networks will enable a wide range of new and exciting scientific and educational projects, both by themselves and in conjunction with much larger telescopes. I describe our plans for such a global network of two 1m-class robotic telescopes.

Type
I. Telescope Arrays and Networking
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 183: Small-Telescope Astronomy on Global Scales , 2001 , pp. 13 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001

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