TelescopeNets:About
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About the HTN
The Heterogeneous Telescope Networks 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
Initial funding for the consortium and the first HTN Workshop was provided as part of an EPSRC (http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/) grant for "Links to International e-Science Sister Projects", which was obtained in a joint proposal between the eSTAR and Robonet-1.0 Projects in the United Kingdom, the MONET Project in Germany and the RAPTOR (Los Alamos National Laboratory) and SGM (NASA Advanced Architectures and Automation Group) Projects in the United States.
About this wiki
The HTN wiki is powered by MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net) (the software behind Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org)). The custom CSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets) layout was created by Alasdair Allan based on the modified Monobook (http://jasonpearce.com/wp-content/uploads/wikimedia_skin_by_jasonpearce.com.rar) Media Wiki (http://www.mediawiki.org/) skin by Jason Pearce (http://jasonpearce.com/).