The Control System of the MAGIC telescope
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The 17 m diameter IACT MAGIC will be commissioned during this year. The control system of the telescope is distributed over a number of functional autonomous elements. CANbus is favored for the communication with the hardware. A central PC steers all these subsystems over Ethernet and allows a human operator full control over the telescope. Here we mainly focus on the Central Control and Camera Control systems.
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