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1 About 2 Call for Proposals 3 Meetings 4 Main Sections 5 Participants

About

The HTN Consortium represents a number of major research groups in the field of robotic telescopes. The organisation has three primary aims:

• Interoperability between robotic telescope networks
• Interoperability with the Virtual Observatory (http://www.ivoa.net) for event notification
• Establishment of an e-market for the exchange of telescope time

Call for Proposals

The call for proposals is now open (http://www.telescope-networks.org/cfp/cgi-bin/application.cgi) for submissions to make use of the HTN. There will be 50 hours of scheduled time split between the Faulkes North and Faulkes South telescopes, 10 hours of on-sky time on the Liverpool Telescope and 10 hours of on-sky time on MONET/North on offer in this call.

The call will be closed for new applications on the 25th of July. Proposals will not be accepted after that date so that they can be distributed to the TAC before their meeting later that month. The call is open to astronomers worldwide.

Meetings

• Hot-wiring the Transient Universe (http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired/index.cfm), June 2007, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
  • Talks given at the Meeting (http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired/program/index.cfm)
  • Photographs from the Meeting (http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired/photos/)
• HTN Workshop II, July 2006, Göttingen, Germany
  • Talks given at the Meeting
  • Notes from the Meeting
  • Actions from the Meeting
  • Photographs from the Meeting
• SPIE 2006 (http://spie.org/Conferences/Calls/06/as/conferences/index.cfm?fuseaction=AS06), May 2006, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
• VOEvent Workshop II (http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VoeventWorkshop2), December 2005, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
• HTN Workshop, July 2005, Exeter, United Kingdom
  • Talks given at the Meeting
  • Notes from the Meeting
  • Actions from the Meeting
  • Workshop Proceedings
• VOEvent Workshop (http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VoeventWorkshop), April 2005, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Main Sections

• Protocols
• Transport Mechanisms
  • SOAP Standard
  • FTP Standard
  • Vanilla TCP Standard
• RTML
  • RTML Standard (http://monet.uni-sw.gwdg.de/twiki/bin/view/RTML/WebHome)
  • Phase 0 Requests
• eMarkets
  • CORE (http://alpha.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~hessman/CORE/)
• Agent Technology
  • What are Agents?
  • Why are Agents useful?
  • Agent architectures
• Robotic Telescopes
• Events & Transients
  • The IVOA (http://www.ivoa.net/) VOEvent (http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaVOEvent) Standard
  • Astro::VO::VOEvent & Astro::GCN (http://voevent.sourceforge.net/) Perl Modules
  • The GCN (http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/) Project

Participants

The HTN Consortium is formed from a loose network of projects:

• The eSTAR Project
• The Robonet-1.0 Consortium
• Los Alamos Thinking Telescope Project (http://www.thinkingtelescopes.lanl.gov/)
  • RAPid Telescope for Optical Response (RAPTOR )
  • Telescope ALert Operations Network System (TALONS).
• The MONET Project
• NASA (http://www.nasa.gov/) SGM Project
• Las Cumbres Observatory (http://www.lcogt.net/) Global Telescope (LCO GT)
• The Super-WASP Project
• Joint Astronomy Centre, Hawaii (JACH)
• The ROTSE Project
• The STELLA Project
• EUDOXOS network
• The Pilot Small Telescope Network (PSTN)
• The TAOS Project
• The PROMPT Project