A COMPUTER-AIDED TELESCOPE POINTING SYSTEM UTILIZING A VIDEO STAR TRACKER

摘要

The Video Inertial Pointing (VIP) System is being developed to satisfy the acquisition and pointing requirements of astronomical telescopes. A unique feature of the system is the use of a single sensor to provide infor¬mation for the generation of three axis pointing error signals and for a cathode ray tube (CRT) display of the star field. The pointing error signals are used to update the telescope's gyro stabilization and the CRT display is used by an operator to facilitate target acquisition and to aid in manual positioning of the telescope optical axis.