RTS2 Information

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 clone current sources from Git - follow instructions in INSTALL file. There is an install script, which should work on Debian based Linux distributions, and is tested on Ubuntu 11.04. After installing Ubuntu, you just need to type in terminal: wget http://rts2.org/ubuntu-rts2-install source ./ubuntu-rts2-install The script will install all required packages, download, compile and install recent RTS2, and setup the system (create database,..) so you can use the system for dummy (simulated) devices. Doxygen documentation is now available in HTML orPDF .