A virtual reality environment for telescope operation
2010
Astronomical observatories and telescopes are becoming increasingly large and complex systems, demanding to any
potential user the acquirement of great amount of information previous to access them. At present, the most common
way to overcome that information is through the implementation of larger graphical user interfaces and computer
monitors to increase the display area. Tonantzintla Observatory has a 1-m telescope with a remote observing system. As
a step forward in the improvement of the telescope software, we have designed a Virtual Reality (VR) environment that
works as an extension of the remote system and allows us to operate the telescope. In this work we explore this
alternative technology that is being suggested here as a software platform for the operation of the 1-m telescope.
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