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Chinese SONG and mini-SONG Software Xiaomeng Lu National Astronomical Observatories, CAS 18 Sep, 2011 The 4 th Workshop

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Chinese SONG Software SONG is a Network Group, each node should act in the same way, so well copy the prototype as many as possible. OS: Debian Linux Infrastructure: OpenVPN, VLAN, Vmware, PostgreSQL Tools: Slony-I, Gluster FS, Bacula Mechanism: trigger based on PostgreSQL, daemon, data drive Development Language: Python, C/C++, HTML Reference: IRAF, Sextractor, But Chinese node is not strictly same to prototype, we hope the left programs are just concerned with Hardwares that different from prototype.

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Telescope Astelco OpenTCI(Telescope Driver) & OpenTSI(User Interface) based on TPL2 to share prototype codes Extended TPL2 gives more functions for diagnoses That would be possible and we will make the draft at end of September. Spectrometer & CCD Would use the same design plan and model Other Instruments Such as Cloud Monitor & Dust Monitor, we will write their drivers, extend database tables and error daemons Image File(s) Drawing up FITS Head specification, containing enough detailed information Additional Functions Automatic pointing calibration -- remember axes position and sky position. if the error is greater than threshold, making point model and replacing the calibration parameters automatically

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What to do for Chinese SONG Software Comparing the difference between prototype and Chinese node, to write correlative drivers, triggers and scripts, etc. Setup the developing and runtime environments, make somebody to be familiar with them Tracking prototype subversion Administrate Chinese node software locally and upload to Danish server after test Quick local data processing, such as lucky image filtering and combining, automatic telescope pointing calibration

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mini-SONG Software mini-SONG is somewhat different from SONG for their different requirements and design plans. Wide FOV High Precision Long time term Simultaneity 2(or Multi)-Color Survey Match telescope & CCD High accuracy pointing (no AGU) Double Tube & CCD Relay between sites Observe strategy

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mini-SONG will use many same factors as SONG: Platform, Infrastructure, Tools, Mechanism, Development languages, Environment instruments

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What to do for mini-SONG software: Requirement Analysis Data structure definition Logic definition Setup runtime environment Code & test & documentation What have been determined: Debian 6.0.2, 64bit PostgreSQL 8.3.15 Python 2.7.2 GNU C++ 4.4.6 WEB interface for client Data drive mechanism

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VPN Secure Network VLAN Remote seems to be local Cluster data exchange between servers SOCKET communication in same site Data Drive varied data drive workflow Remote Maintenance through rDesktop or SSH

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Content: (1) setup platform (2) design DB (3) Image file path architecture (4) data process (5) WEB interface

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Data flow between key points: Schedule is saved as TXT file and submit through WWW page. The schedule file would be like following style: Site List [[All] [device-name] [device-name2] [device- name3]] Priority Level 0(0~5) Observe Type survey [lucky image] Filter Color B V Exposure Time xxxx.xxx Exposure Number n Synchronization yes[no] Observe Policy n Begin Date YYYY-MM-DD Life Cycle nnn Submitters ABCDEF (the followings are object information) Name RA DEC Epoch Priority ObserveType FilterColor ExposureTime Synchronization

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FITS Head will include: (1) Standard (2) Object(Schedule No, Object name, RA & DEC, Frame) (3) Filter(Photometry system, Color) (4) Mount site(name, geography) (5) Telescope(diameter, f-ratio, focus) (6) CCD Camera(resolution, pixel size, OVERSCAN, cool-set, cooler) (7) Weather(Air Pressure, Temperature, Humidity) (8) Pointing(Alt-Azimuth, RA-DEC) (9) Exposure(Readout port, Readout speed, Readout noise, Gain, DATE- OBS, TIME-OBS, EXPTIME, TIME-END) We Hope: (1)Give V1.0 design documentation during Oct 2011 (2)Give evaluation before July 2012 (3)Give stable V1.0 before Dec 2012

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Thanks For your attention!