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Summary: The ROTSE-IIIa Telescope System
D. Smith£, C. Akerlof£, M. C. B. Ashley
, D. Casperson££, G. Gisler££, R. Kehoe£,
S. Marshall
, K. McGowan££, T. McKay£, M. A. Phillips
, E. Rykoff£, W. T.
Vestrand££, P. Wozniak££ and J. Wren££
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2477 Randall Laboratory, University of Michigan, 500 E. Univeristy Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
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Los Alamos National Laboratories, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
Abstract.
We report on the current operating status of the ROTSE-IIIa telescope, currently undergoing testing at Los
Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico. It will be shipped to Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, in first
quarter 2002. ROTSE-IIIa has been in automated observing mode since early October, 2001, after completing
several weeks of calibration and check-out observations. Calibrated lists of objects in ROTSE-IIIa sky patrol
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