Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Serie de Conferencias, Vol. 59

JULIO 2025

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VII Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories

October 16-20, 2023
Editors for this issue: Maria Gritsevich, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Petr Kubánek, Shashi B. Pandey, and David Hiriart

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• TABLE OF CONTENTS                                 iii

• Preface
  Maria Gritsevich, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Petr Kubánek, Shashi B. Pandey, and David Hiriart                                 vii

• List of registered participants                                 ix

• Group Photograph                                 xi

  
  
  

• DEVELOPMENT OF ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES FROM THE LATE 19TH TO THE 21ST CENTURY
  Miguel Ángel Castro Tirado                                 1
• CHARACTERIZATION OF THE KL4040 SCMOS FOR USE ON THE BOYDEN RESEARCH TELESCOPES
  W. Smit, H. J. van Heerden, and B. van Soelen                                 9
• CONSIDERATIONS ON AUTOMATING OLDER TELESCOPES: THE BOYDEN 1.5 M TELESCOPE
  H. J. van Heerden, P. J. Meintjes, B. van Soelen, W. Smit, I. P. van der Westhuizen, and H. Szegedi                                 13
• MODERNIZATION OF COLOTI OPTICAL OBSERVATORY: REMOTE CONTROL AND AUTOMATION FOR MULTIMESSENGER FOLLOW-UP
  P. Cristarella Orestano, S. Cutini, S. Germani, S. Palmerini, and G. Tosti                                 19
• DON: AUTOMATION OF THE VATICAN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY TELESCOPE
  P. Gabor                                 23
• AUTONOMOUS TELESCOPE AND SCIENTIFIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENTS AT TUG
  O. Erece, Y. Kilic, and K. Uluc                                 27
• OAUJ-CDK500: A NEW KRAKÓW ROBOTIC TELESCOPE
  S. Zola, G. Stachowski, S. Kurowski, T. Kundera, W. Waniak, D. E. Reichart, V. Kouprianov, J. B. Haislip, L. Wyrzykowski, and P. J. Mikolajczyk                                 31
• BUILDING A LIMITED BUDGET ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
  M. Odeh                                 37
• TOWARDS A FULLY ROBOTIC SOLAR OBSERVATORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN
  S. Martens and T. O. Husser                                 43
• THE IMPACT OF THE SITE QUALITY OF THE ZADKO OBSERVATORY ON ITS SCIENTIFIC RESULTS
  B. Gendre, R. Tonello, M. Studdert, D. Coward, A. Klotz, E. Moore, J. Moore, and F. Panther                                 49
• ADVANCED WEATHER CONTROL SYSTEM AT THE TJO TELESCOPE
  F. Domene, E. Herrero, P. Gil, D. Baroch, and A. Rojas                                 55
• SKY BRIGHTNESS MEASUREMENTS WITH THE ALLSKY CAMERA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN
  K. J. Schimpf & T. O. Husser                                 63
• ZERO POINT MAGNITUDES OF ALL-SKY IMAGES FOR DETERMINING CLOUD CONDITIONS
  C. H. D. van Gend, N. Erasmus, J. Tonry, L. Denneau, M. Hlakola, and S. B. Potter                                 69
• OBSERVATORY CONTROL SYSTEM AT SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY
  Sunil Chandra, Steve B. Potter, Carel van Gend, Nicolas Erasmus, and Roufurd Julie                                 71
• MANAGEMENT OF A MULTI-USER ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
  J. Moore, B. Gendre, D. Coward, F. Panther, and E. Moore                                 77
• AUTONOMOUS SCHEDULING AT THE TJO TELESCOPE
  D. Baroch, E. Herrero, P. Gil, F. Domene, A. Rojas, and N. Ribó                                 81
• UNSYNCHRONIZED FIREBALL ANALYSIS AND CHALLENGES IN DIMENSIONLESS ATMOSPHERIC FLIGHT PARAMETRIZATION: THE SPMN230522 SUPERBOLIDE AS A CASE STUDY
  E. Peña-Asensio, P. Grèbol-Tomàs, J.M. Trigo-Rodrı́guez, M. Gritsevich, A. Rimola, M. Corretgé-Gilart, C. Guasch, C. Alcaraz, V. Ibáñez, A. Gómez, and J. Gómez                                 87
• COMETARY OUTBURSTS AND EVOLUTION OF EJECTED PARTICLES
  M. Gritsevich, M. Nissinen, J. Ryske, A. J. Castro-Tirado, I. Pérez-Garcı́a, M. Weso, J. M. Trigo-Rodrı́guez, E. Peña-Asensio, I. Boaca, T. Prystavski, M. Husárik, O. Ivanova, A. Sánchez, and J. M. Llenas                                 93
• INTERSTELLAR VISITORS AND ELUSIVE EXTRASOLAR METEORITES
  E. Peña-Asensio, J. M. Trigo-Rodrı́guez, M. Gritsevich, H. Socas-Navarro, J. Visuri, and A. Rimola                                 101
• EARLY-TIME OPTICAL SPECTRAL SHAPE MEASUREMENTS OF GRB 200925B
  Z. Abdullayev, T. Komesh, B. Grossan, E. Abdikamalov, Z. Maksut, M. Krugov, S. Myrzakul, D. Tuiakbayeva, and A. Kostangeldinova                                 109
• AN INTERMEDIATE LUMINOSITY GRB 210210A: THE EARLY ONSET OF THE EXTERNAL FORWARD SHOCK IN THE X-RAY?
  R. Gupta, A. K. Ror, S. B. Pandey, J. Racusin, M. Moss, A. Aryan, N. Klingler, and A. J. Castro-Tirado                                 115
• PROMPT AND AFTERGLOW ANALYSIS OF THE FERMI-LAT DETECTED GRB 230812B
  A. K. Ror, S. B. Pandey, A. Aryan, S. Kumar, and A. J. Castro-Tirado                                 133
• THE CORE COLLAPSE OF A 16.5 M⊙ STAR
  A. Aryan, S. B. Pandey, R. Gupta, A. K. Ror, and A. J. Castro-Tirado                                 145
• EARLY EMISSION OF SHORT OPTICAL TRANSIENTS
  S. Wu, V. M. Lipunov, A. J. Castro-Tirado, Y.-D. Hu, K. Zhirkov, and N. V. Tyurina                                 153
• GERRY : FINDING ELECTROMAGNETIC COUNTERPARTS IN GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FOLLOW-UP CAMPAIGNS
  D. O’Neill                                 161
• BLACK HOLE TOM - AN AUTOMATIC TOOL FOR PHOTOMETRIC TIME-DOMAIN DATA
  P. J. Miko lajczyk, P. Zieliński, L. Wyrzykowski, A. Krawczyk, and K. Kotysz                                 167
• ATTITUDE CONTROL STUDY ON ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES AND SPACE DEBRIS USING LASER DATA
  R. Martı́nez and M. Á. Sánchez                                 173
• A UNIQUE LOOK ON MICROMETEORITES: WHEN SPECTROSCOPY MEETS CITIZEN SCIENCE
  M. R. López-Ramı́rez, J. Laserna, M. Hanna, J. Moilanen, and M. Gritsevich                                 179
• USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING IN EDUCATION OF ASTRONOMY, PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS
  F. Bahrani                                 183
• DEVELOPING SCHOOL SCIENCE SKILLS THROUGH THE SCIENCE-IES ROBOTIC TELESCOPE PROJECTS
  J. R. Girón-Gambero                                 187
• TULANCINGO-I: THE K BAND MEXICAN RADIOTELESCOPE
  D. Hiriart, E. Colorado, F. Diaz, T. Calvario, H. Serrano, D. Rojas, and S. Kurtz                                 193
• IMAGING STOKES PHOTOMETER-POLARIMETER FOR THE BOOTES GLOBAL TELESCOPE NETWORK
  S. Guziy, I. Syniavsky, Ye. Oberemok, O. Ivanova, and A. J. Castro-Tirado                                 197
• THE INTELLIGENT OBSERVATORY
  N. Erasmus, S. B. Potter, C. H. D. van Gend, S. Chandra, H. L. Worters, M. Hlakola, and R. Julie                                 201
• SOFTWARE COMPONENTS OF THE INTELLIGENT OBSERVATORY
  C. H. D. van Gend, S. B. Potter, N. Erasmus, S. Chandra, M. Hlakola, H. Worters, and R. Julie                                 209
• NEW ROBOTIC TELESCOPE: THE BIG EYE TO OBSERVE THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE
  C. M. Gutiérrez, J. Barrera, J. Bento, D. Copley, C. M. Copperwheat, F. J. De Cos, M. Escriche, J. J. Fernández-Valdivia, A. P. Garner, J. Gracia, D. G. Heffernan-Clarke, H. E. Jermak, J. León Gil, A. M. McGrath, C. Miossec, A. Oria, A. Ranjbar, R. Rebolo, C. Rodrı́guez-Pereira, F. Sánchez-Lasheras, R. J. Smith, I. A. Steele, and M. Torres                                 217
• Author Index
  Author Index                              225
  
  
  
  
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