Telescope systems

Here are some consultancy services our company performed in the past, contact us for more information.
This is not an exhaustive list, most of the project our company was involved in are under Non Disclosure Agreements.
Our company can perform training on products we sold, in order to get the best from them.

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Optics : Telescope optical alignement / Shack hartmann alignement procedure

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Mechanics : Modal modes measurement, structure stiffness assessment

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Control system : 4 Mirrors positionning, ALT-AZ-DEROT direct drive mount tuning

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Telescope software : controlling more than 25 motors to adjust optical parts and multiple setups

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System software : TCS, software architecture review, recommendations and fixups

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Project management : Management and follow up of sub-contractors in China, reporting.

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Quality : Qualiy Inspection and assessment.

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Commissionning : Procedures, required tools to validate system performance.

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Officina stellare 60cm F8 RC telescope

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Mount : NOVA 200 mount, controller and software made by our company

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System architecture : according to the requirements, reliability of the system.

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Control system : Complete observatory control equipement installation (dome control, computers, focal plane hardware and control, mount and tube control)

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ALL Sky camera : EUDA

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Training : people running the observatory training and knowledge transfer

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Installation : Observatory installation and deployment, first tests.

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Commissionning : Tests of the mount and whole observatory devices controlled by central computer and PRISM software.

Customer : SAFRAN / REOSC for Sternberg Astronomical Institute (Russia)
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ALCOR SYSTEM expertise was requested in the following fields (2 years work) :

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Astronomical instrumentation

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Airbone remote sensing

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All sky surveillance, satellite re-entry tracking

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Optical metrology

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Medical applications : shack-hartmann metrology and ophthalmic applications

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Optical simulations : sequential and non sequential simulations

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System engineering : software, mechanics, opto mechanics and control systems

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Camera systems : image sensor characterization, camera systems

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Software and systems : testbench, metrology testbenches for instruments

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Image processing and image chain quality, from optics and sensor to final file on disk

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Optical metrology : shack-hartmann, auto collimation with flat mirrors

Customer : French State
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ALCOR SYSTEM was project manager in this project, and also project integrator. It consisted in providing telescope (OTA), mount, electrical architecture, dome control, software integration, observatory automation and observatory commissionning. Here are the solutions that were provided

The telescope and the mount were installed on July 15th, 2014, two days after the Optical Tube Assembly and the mount were assembled together, the observatory was providing its first light nice images just two days after. Here is below an unguided 180s exposure with 5400 mm focal length, showin star FWHM less than 2 arcsec. This was a sucessful project.