Fast Auto-Focus Method and Software for CCD-based Telescopes
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Focusing CCD-based telescopes is one of the drudgeries astronomers constantly face. With the recent advent of relatively low cost, motorized position-feedback focusing hardware, comes an opportunity to fully automate the focusing operation. This paper presents a new method and software for automatically focusing CCD based telescope systems. It is highly suitable for unattended all-night robotic-telescope operations such as asteroid searches, astrometry, photometry, imaging, etc. The only requirements are a CCD based telescope, a commercially available position-feedback motorized-focuser [2] and CCD camera control software [3].
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