Making AEON a reality using APIs: experience integrating LCOGT and SOAR

J. Nation; M. Bowman; E. Heinrich-Josties; R. A. Street

doi:10.1117/12.2560761

13 December 2020 Making AEON a reality using APIs: experience integrating LCOGT and SOAR

J. Nation, M. Bowman, E. Heinrich-Josties, R. A. Street

Proceedings Volume 11452, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI; 114522N (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560761
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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Las Cumbres Observatory (LCOGT) has recently finished integrating the SOAR 4.1-meter telescope into its robotic telescope network. To achieve this, an observation request language was developed suitable for describing observations across a wide range of current and future telescope facilities and observing resources. A complete set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) were developed to allow any arbitrary observatory to utilize LCOGT’s observation management software, including interfaces to i) manage proposals, ii) retrieve and update a schedule of observations, iii) report the progress of ongoing observations, iv) propagate operational telemetry and v) receive science products. We describe our efforts, the experience gained, and the implications of this work on the Astronomical Event Observatory Network (AEON) initiative. We also introduce an alternate option for observation management in the open source Observatory Control System (OCS).

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J. Nation, M. Bowman, E. Heinrich-Josties, and R. A. Street "Making AEON a reality using APIs: experience integrating LCOGT and SOAR", Proc. SPIE 11452, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI, 114522N (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560761

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