Aristos Queue Posted July 24, 2012 Report Share Posted July 24, 2012 The brand new Discovery Telescope uses a heavy amount of LabVIEW. LAVA user Paul_at_lowell is key to that project. For those who were at the USA 2012 CLA Summit, this is the telescope that was the motivation for the third user presentation in the morning. Looks like congratulations are in order based on today's slashdot article: http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/07/23/2135258/discovery-channel-telescope-snaps-inaugural-pictures "Two decades ago ... Discovery Channel teamed up with Lowell Observatory and embarked upon a $53 million adventure: the fifth largest telescope in the United States funded entirely without state or federal money. The very first photos snapped with its 16 million pixel camera are in and they look beautiful. Yet to be seen are the simultaneous spectroscopic and imaging observations that should be provided to researchers by the DCT's Ritchey-Chretien instrument cube. Located near a dark-sky site (Coconino National Forest), scientists hope to use this new telescope to answer many research questions including how our solar system formed and how dwarf galaxies evolve. For more telescope porn, check out the DCT's photo tours. Luckily 'the process of planning and building the telescope is due to be featured in a one-hour Discovery Channel documentary set to air in September 2012.' Perhaps there is hope for Discovery Channel to return to its former glory?" Well done! Well done indeed. 1 Quote Link to comment
ohiofudu Posted July 24, 2012 Report Share Posted July 24, 2012 Congrats Paul well done. Quote Link to comment
ShaunR Posted July 24, 2012 Report Share Posted July 24, 2012 Can't wait to see the screenshots. Congrats. Quote Link to comment
jzoller Posted July 24, 2012 Report Share Posted July 24, 2012 Congrats Paul! Nothing is exciting as astronomy... I hope we get to see many images in the coming years. Quote Link to comment
Jordan Kuehn Posted July 24, 2012 Report Share Posted July 24, 2012 Congrats Paul! Quote Link to comment
PaulL Posted July 24, 2012 Report Share Posted July 24, 2012 Thank you, all! We are happy the telescope is working so well! The LabVIEW developers on the DCT team are Michael (http://lavag.org/user/4721-mike-nrao/) -- who delivered the aforementioned presentation at this year's CLA Summit, Ryan (http://lavag.org/user/15218-rgodwin/), and I. I hope to see many of you at NI Week! Quote Link to comment
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