| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 89, 2015
AtmoHEAD 2014: Atmospheric Monitoring for High Energy AstroParticle Detectors
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 03008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 3 | |
| Section | Instruments and Methods | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20158903008 | |
| Published online | 26 March 2015 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20158903008
Weather and atmosphere observation with the ATOM all-sky camera
Landessternwarte Heidelberg, Königstuhl 12, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
a e-mail: f.jankowsky@lsw.uni-heidelberg.de
Published online: 26 March 2015
The Automatic Telescope for Optical Monitoring (ATOM) for H.E.S.S. is an 75 cm optical telescope which operates fully automated. As there is no observer present during observation, an auxiliary all-sky camera serves as weather monitoring system. This device takes an all-sky image of the whole sky every three minutes. The gathered data then undergoes live-analysis by performing astrometric comparison with a theoretical night sky model, interpreting the absence of stars as cloud coverage. The sky monitor also serves as tool for a meteorological analysis of the observation site of the the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array. This overview covers design and benefits of the all-sky camera and additionally gives an introduction into current efforts to integrate the device into the atmosphere analysis programme of H.E.S.S.
© Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2015
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.