Talk

Gains on using robotic telescopes for long-term photometry

Thomas Granzer, AIP

Measuring rotation periods in stars require observing spans comparable to the length of the periods expected whilst at the same time the amount of observing time required per night can be rather short. Even if such an observing schedule can be achieved with variants of queue observing modes, I will argue in this talk that the common calibration procedures realized in robotic observatories additionally result in a precision gain hardly obtainable by other strategies and at basically no costs.