RTS2, or Remote Telescope System, 2nd Version, is an integrated open source package for remote observatory control under the Linux operating system. Its goals is to create a system, which you will put on computer(s) running observatory, and it will keep it running, protecting it from elements, taking images, ensuring that pointing is good, reacting to TOOs, keeping track what was done, sending you data, and helping you to do science.
RTS2 is designed to run the observatory in fully autonomous mode, picking targets from a database table, storing image meta data to the database, processing images and storing their WCS coordinates in the database and offering Virtual-Observatory enabled access to them. It is currently running on various telescope setups world-wide. For control of devices from various manufacturers we developed an abstract device layer, enabling control of all possible combinations of mounts, CCDs, photometers, roof and cupola controllers.
Download latest version from here. But please be aware, that most of the latest changes are in SVN. You are kindly adviced to checkout current sources from SVN - follow instructions in INSTALL file.
Doxygen documentation is now available in HTML or PDF .
GRB 2003 poster (A0 pdf, 371k)
GRB 2003 slide (jpg 1600x1200, 927k) | (jpg 800x600, 127k)
GRB 2003 proceedings article
SPIE poster and article
ADASS 2007 poster
SPIE 2008 poster and article
GA Scheduling master thesis
2009 article
Most of "our" (BOOTES, FRAM and BART) data from those publications were obtained with RTS2 at the control.
There are also two thesis based on RTS2 images:
Please post them to petr [at] kubanek [dot] net.
