CAOSP abstracts, Volume: 53, No.: 4, year: 2023

Author(s): Jelínek, M.
Journal: Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnaté Pleso, vol. 53, no. 4, p. 127-135.
Date: 12/2023
Title: Photometric pipeline for robotic telescopes
Keyword(s): image processing, photometry, automation
Pages: 127 -- 135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/caosp.2023.53.4.127
NASA ADS Abstract Service: 2023CoSka..53d.127J
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License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Abstract: PYRT is a software package to automatically process and calibrate photometric images obtained by robotic telescopes. The response model to be fitted is described with terms provided from the command line or a configuration file. It also has a limited capability to improve the astrometric solution of wide-field images.

The pipeline was used to process several million images obtained by the D50 telescope at Ondřejov. At present, it is in the process of being implemented for the wide-field Small Binocular Telescope, also at Ondřejov. It has also been tested to successfully solve a wide range of images from other telescopes ranging from large-aperture professional instruments to wide-field systems and all-sky cameras.