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- | BOOTES was founded in 1997, with a single dome and a 20 cm Meade LX200 mount, piggybacked with two wide-field lenses with the idea to follow BATSE alerts and to perform automated scans of the sky. These old GRB alerts had large uncertrainities, | + | BOOTES was founded in 1998, with a single dome and a 20 cm Meade LX200 mount, piggybacked with two wide-field lenses with the idea to follow BATSE alerts and to perform automated scans of the sky. These old GRB alerts had large uncertrainities, |
===== Instrumentation ===== | ===== Instrumentation ===== | ||
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+ | BOOTES-1B is a 30 cm Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope on a fast slewing Paramount-ME mount, equipped with a FLI CM-8 1536x1024 pixel (Kodak KAF1602) CCD camera. It's primary objective is follow-up of satellite GRB alerts. It can interrupt the ongoing observation, | ||
- | BOOTES-1B is a 30 cm Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain | + | The telescope |
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- | The telescope observes without filters to maximize throughput. | + | |
Since its installation the telescope has followed 5 GRBs with positive detections. These are GRB 080330, GRB 080413A, GRB 080430, GRB 080603B and GRB 080605. | Since its installation the telescope has followed 5 GRBs with positive detections. These are GRB 080330, GRB 080413A, GRB 080430, GRB 080603B and GRB 080605. | ||
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There have been two major downtimes: The first caused by the disastrous mount failure which happened at November 12, 2006 and disabled the telescope for 7 months. | There have been two major downtimes: The first caused by the disastrous mount failure which happened at November 12, 2006 and disabled the telescope for 7 months. | ||
The second ocurred between July 10, 2008 and August 28, 2008 (1.5 months) due to a dome failure. | The second ocurred between July 10, 2008 and August 28, 2008 (1.5 months) due to a dome failure. | ||
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==== BOOTES-1A ==== | ==== BOOTES-1A ==== | ||
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To achieve optimum performance, | To achieve optimum performance, | ||
- | Piggybacked atop the large lens, there is a small 1536x1024 CCD camera FLI MX8 with even larger field of view. | + | Piggybacked atop the large lens, there is a small 1536x1024 CCD camera FLI MX8 with Nikkor 18mm/2.8 wide-field lens, providing |
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===== Weather sensing ===== | ===== Weather sensing ===== | ||
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+ | As an independent robotic observatory, | ||
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+ | * Manual blocking (implemented, | ||
+ | * Rain sensor (implemented, | ||
+ | * Weather sensor tower (implemented, | ||
+ | * Cloud-meter (implemented, | ||
+ | * Allsky camera (implemented, | ||
+ | * Meteosat image processing (implemented, | ||
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