Search Results for author: Stuart Littlefair

Found 3 papers, 2 papers with code

Developing the GOTO telescope control system

no code implementations4 Dec 2020 Martin J. Dyer, Vik S. Dhillon, Stuart Littlefair, Danny Steeghs, Krzysztof Ulaczyk, Paul Chote, Joseph Lyman, Duncan K. Galloway, Kendall Ackley, Yik Lun Mong

Since the commissioning the GOTO prototype on La Palma in 2017, development of the control system has focused on the alert handling and scheduling systems.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

astroplan: An Open Source Observation Planning Package in Python

1 code implementation27 Dec 2017 Brett M. Morris, Erik Tollerud, Brigitta Sipocz, Christoph Deil, Stephanie T. Douglas, Jazmin Berlanga Medina, Karl Vyhmeister, Toby R. Smith, Stuart Littlefair, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Wilfred T. Gee, Eric Jeschke

We present astroplan - an open source, open development, Astropy affiliated package for ground-based observation planning and scheduling in Python.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Tidally Distorted Exoplanets: Density Corrections for Short-Period Hot-Jupiters based solely on Observable Parameters

1 code implementation8 May 2014 John Burton, Christopher Watson, Alan Fitzsimmons, Don Pollacco, Victoria Moulds, Stuart Littlefair, Peter Wheatley

The close proximity of short period hot-Jupiters to their parent star means they are subject to extreme tidal forces.

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

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