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RVO science problems and resolving
waysMoscow Apr 10-11, 2006

• The heterogenic geographical distributed system
  for the celestial object monitoring as the
  experimental part of RVO

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• The more wide view on the problem of Virtual
  Observatory (VO) creation makes it clear that the
  VO concept mast be expanded.
• There are no principal differences between data
  stored in archive and data receiving from
  telescope or data computing from numerical
  experiment.
• There are no big differences between the real
  science experiment and students training that.
• There are small differences, in the collaboration
  sense, between the live association of
  investigators and virtual one.

Therefore the VO would be including not only data
collections and software, but the experimental
complexes, the education/training features and
the virtual intercommunity.
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Russias Longitude-Latitudeand light pollution
83º
41º
170º
20º
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• A lot of educational telescopes are remain after
  Soviet times and exist practically in each
  regional centre overall territory of Russia.
• The variable and transient objects monitoring is
  requesting the long range longitude/latitude
  observations network.
• The creation of geographical distributed system
  that united small and medium size telescopes for
  Russia is unique possibility to provide the
  astronomical research on the high worldwide
  level.

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The base and secondary possible nodes
Gloriad
First stage
Second stage
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• The control, monitoring and observation
  procedures was set into operation and tested on
  SAO telescopes.
• Nowadays the BTA system is exploited constantly
  and allowed an Internet monitoring, a remote
  control of the telescope and an input of
  coordinates.
• The standard observation unit model was
  constructed on the base of Meade LXD-55 SN-10
  small telescope with Autostar system and compact
  CCD Pictor 416XTE.
• The possibility of the telescope remote
  monitoring including the video monitoring of a
  telescope, external weather conditions and the
  acquisition systems TV-cameras is realized.

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Thank you
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