URAT at CTIO

Abstract

Wondering about the red shipping container sitting on top of Cerro Tololo? Between April 2012 and June 2015, the US Naval Observatory (USNO) Robotic Astrometric Telescope(URAT) conducted a three-year Northern Hemisphere observing program from its Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station site in Arizona. The URATI astrometric star catalog was derived from its first two years of operation, providing accurate positions at the 10- 30 mas level for over200 million stars between R = 3.5 and 19.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1008213

Entities

People

  • F. M. Walter
  • Norbert Zacharias

Organizations

  • United States Naval Observatory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acquisition
  • Bandpass Filters
  • Computers
  • Containers
  • Cosmic Rays
  • Data Reduction
  • Detectors
  • Extraction
  • Filters
  • Hemispheres
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Observation
  • Observatories
  • Shipping
  • Shipping Containers
  • Southern Hemisphere
  • Space Missions
  • Standards
  • Teamwork
  • Telescopes

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy/Astrophysics
  • Educational Psychology
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • Autonomy
  • Space