Speaker
Mr
Dusan Mandat
(Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Description
The All-Sky-Camera (ASC) is a passive non-invasive imaging system for rapid night sky atmosphere monitoring.
The operation of the ASC will hence not disturb standard operation of the CTA telescopes, however results from the measurements will help to improve the accuracy and effective duty-cycle of the CTA observatory.
The goal of ASC, and recently developed intelligent image analysis algorithms, is to identify the position of clouds, atmospheric attenuation and time evolution of the local sky conditions.
The monitoring will be able to predict the night-sky quality on a short term basis.
In case of partly cloudy night-sky, the cameras will identify uncovered regions of the sky during the CTA operation time, and pinpoint those regions where observation targets can be viewed without atmospheric disturbance.
Primary author
Mr
Dusan Mandat
(Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Co-authors
Mr
Jan Ebr
(Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Dr
Michael Prouza
(Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Prof.
Miroslav Hrabovsky
(Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Dr
Miroslav Palatka
(Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Dr
Miroslav Pech
(Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Dr
Petr Janecek
(Institute of Physics AS CR)
Dr
Petr Schovanek
(Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Dr
Petr Travnicek
(Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
