Before this decade is out: a student project to place a telescope on the internet

  • Authors:

  • Michael P. Rogers

  • Affiliations:

  • Mathematics and Computer Science, Millikin University, Decatur, IL

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper describes a student project to place a telescope on the internet: such a telescope can be pointed via a web interface, and images from it displayed on a user's computer. We discuss recent developments in astronomy hardware and computer software that place this still challenging project within the realm of the possible.