• 영재교육연구
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.697-709
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• 2015

본 연구의 주요 목적은 초등과학영재교육에서 활용할 수 있는 원격천문대 시스템을 구축한 후, 이를 활용한 천체관측 교육 프로그램을 개발하고, 초등과학영재에게 적용하여 과학탐구능력 및 과학적 태도에 미치는 영향을 알아보는 것이다. 이와 같은 연구 목적을 달성하기 위해 경기도 소재 A초등학교와 B초등학교 5학년 과학영재학생 35명을 대상으로 원격천문대 시스템을 활용한 천체관측 교육 프로그램을 적용하여 과학탐구능력과 과학적 태도 검사를 실시하였다. 교육 프로그램을 적용해본 결과 과학탐구능력의 하위 요소 중 기초탐구능력과 통합탐구능력 모두에서 유의미한 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 기초탐구능력과 통합탐구능력을 종합한 과학탐구능력에서도 유의미한 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 원격천문대 시스템을 활용한 천체관측 교육 프로그램이 초등과학영재의 과학적 태도에 미치는 영향 역시 유의미한 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 하위요소로는 개방성, 협동성, 끈기성, 창의성에서는 유의미한 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났으나 호기심, 비판성, 자진성에서는 유의미한 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 결과적으로 원격천문대 시스템을 활용한 천체관측 교육 프로그램은 기존의 지구 외부 세계와 학습자가 분리된 채 이루어진 천문교육을 스마트 인프라의 적용을 통해 참여와 공유, 융합을 구현하여 학습자의 역량을 강화시킬 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 천문학논총
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.75-84
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• 1998

We present the development of a remote observation system runnig on world wide web (WWW). The system consists of a 30cm Schmidt Cassegrain telescope and ST-7 CCD camera. We built the controllers and drivers of the telescope and the control softwares including the network control. The self-developed techniques in the hard wares and softwares can be applied to other projects in Korea. Observers can access the system via WWW home page, to reserve observation times, to send control commands, to retrieve images and various information useful for observation. This system can be widely used by students and amateur astronomers as well as professional astronomers who need a lot of small telescope time.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.211-220
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• 2000

Korea Astronomy Observatory(KAO) is working to retrofit its 1m robotic telescope in collaboration with a company (ACE, Astronomical Consultants & Equipment). The telescope system is being totally refurbished to make a fully automatic telescope which can operate in both interactive and fully autonomous robotic modes. Progress has been made in design and manufacturing of the telescope mount, mechanics, and optical performance system tests are being made for re-configured primary and secondary mirrors. The optical system is designed to collect 80% incident light within 0.5 arcsec with f/7.5 Ritchey-Chretien design. The telescope mount is an equatorial fork with a friction drive system. The design allows fully programmable tracking speeds with typical range of 15 arcsec/sec with accuracy of $\pm5$ arcsec/hour. The mount system has integral pointing model software to correct for refraction, and all mechanical errors and misalignments. The pointing model will permit positioning to better than 30 arcsec RMS within $75^{\circ}$ from zenith and 45 arcsec RMS elsewhere on the sky. The software is designed for interactive, remote and robotic modes of operation. In interactive and remote mode the user can manually enter coordinates or retrieve them from a computer file. In robotic mode the telescope controller downloads the coordinates in the order determined by the scheduler. The telescope will be equipped with a CCD camera and will be accessible via the internet.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.456-466
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 공주대학교 천문대 16인치 반사망원경의 원격 제어 시스템을 구축하였다. 이 시스템은 닫힌 루프 시스템이다. 전자제어부는 한국천문연구원에서 개발한 TCS-196를 활용했고, 기계부는 직접 개발하였다. 이 원격제어망원경의 마운트 모델링 후 얻은 지향정밀도는 시간각 방향에서는 ${\pm}$50", 적위 방향에서 ${\pm}$40"이며, 추적 정밀도도 약 1"/min정도였다. 이러한 예비관측 결과는 본 시스템이 천문학 연구 및 교육에 적당함을 의미한다.

• 천문학논총
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.65-73
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• 1998

We installed windscreen at the BOAO 1.8m telescope dome, in order to reduce the degradation of image Quality under strong wind larger than 8m/sec. The windscreen was designed on the basis of that installed at the MSSSO 2.3m telescope dome in Australia. We developed control system (remote control and user program) of the windscreen, being able to operate the windscreen at observation room. We tested the performance of the windscreen under strong wind of 6-15m/see. Tracking error of the telescope, especially in altitude-axis, was greatly decreased when the windscreen was used. Standard deviation of the error was estimated to be less than 0.3arcsec, which has little effect on image quality.

• 정보처리학회논문지A
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• 제17A권4호
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• pp.197-202
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• 2010

관측소의 기록저장 장치는 수위계와 우량계로부터 5분 간격으로 측정된 데이터를 저장한다. 그리고 관측소의 RTU(Remote Terminal Unit)는 VHF와 위성통신을 이용하여 10분 간격으로 홍수통제소의 TM(Telemetering)으로 측정된 데이터를 전송한다. 이때 전송되는 데이터는 레코더에 저장된 전체 데이터가 아니라 10분 간격으로 측정된 데이터이다. 홍수 통제소에서는 수신된 데이터를 홍수예보를 위해 분석한다. 또한 중요한 점은 관측소의 유지보수이다. 본 논문에서는 홍수예보를 위한 효과적인 유지보수 시스템을 제안한다. 그것은 PDA의 CDMA와 Blutooth 기술을 사용하였다. 제안된 시스템은 휴대용이며 관측소에 저장된 데이터를 RTU없이 쉽게 홍수통제소로 전송할 수 있다. 또한 홍수통제소로 부터 전송 받아서 다른 지역의 관측소 데이터를 원격으로 볼 수 있다. 따라서 제안하는 시스템은 인력과 시간의 낭비를 줄여서 관측소의 유지 보수 업무를 효율적으로 할 수 있다.

• 천문학논총
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.85-98
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• 1998

In this paper we describe MS-TCS, the telescope control system which was developed in Korea Astronomy Observatory. MS-TCS can control an equatorial type telescope equipped with stepping motors and incremental type optical encoders. MS-TCS consists of (1) POINT_TEL which is the program roning in a PC and (2) TCS-196 which is the electroics board to control the telescope. The communication between the PC and TCS-l96 is done through RS-232 or RS-422 serial line. MS-TCS can control the secondary mirror and dome. It also provide network function using TCP/IP for remote control of the telescope. MS-TCS is suitable for controlling medium to small size telescope for research and education.

• 천문학회보
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.57.2-57.2
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• 2017

Remote and robotic telescopes are the most effective instrument for astronomical survey projects. The system is based on the dynamic operation of all astronomical instruments such as dome and telescope control system (TCS), focuser, filter wheel and data taking camera. We adopt the ASCOM driver platform to control the instruments through the integrated software. It can convert different interface libraries from various manufacturers into a uniform standard library. This allows us to effectively control astronomical instruments without modifying codes. We suggest a conceptual design of software for automation of a small telescope such as the new wide-field 0.25m telescope at McDonald Observatory. It can also be applied to operation of multi-telescopes in future projects.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.54-65
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• 1995

We present a design study for a remote sensing camera system which can be operated in multi-channel mode simultaneously with several bandpass filters. The camera control electronics is based on the multiplexed driving concept, which can provide a variety of flexibility for system control parameters and its individual optimisation. The design can also be applied to any system with linear sensors or frame sensors according to its functional requirements. The system design parameters have been examined, including modification of driving waveforms for different types of sensors, waveforms for low-nosie readout circuit in analog chain, and synchronisation with other signal processing.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.403-416
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• 2003

There are common features, in both imaging surveys and image processing, between astronomical observations and remote sensing. Handling large amounts of data, in an easy and fast way, has become a common issue. Implementing pipeline software can be a solution to the problem, one which allows the processing of various kinds of data automatically. As a case study, the development of pipeline software for the EIS (European Southern Observatory Imaging Survey) is introduced. The EIS team has been conducting a sky survey to provide candidate targets to the 250 VLTs (Very Large Telescopes) observations. The survey data have been processed in a sequence of five major data corrections and reductions, i.e. preprocessing, flat fielding, photometric and astrometric corrections, source extraction, and coaddition. The processed data are eventually distributed to the users. In order to provide automatic processing of the vast volume of observed data, pipeline software has been developed. Because of the complexity of objects and different characteristic of each process, it was necessary to analyze the whole works of the EIS survey program. The overall tasks of the EIS are identified, and the scheme of the EIS pipeline software is defined. The system structure and the processes are presented, and in-depth flow charts are analyzed. During the analyses, it was revealed that handling the data flow and managing the database are important for the data processing. These analyses may also be applied to many other fields which require image processing.