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21
December
2012
Hardware installation finished in Robledo by MDSCC team

Last week the CESAR and the MDSCC team finished the complete hardware installation of the Robledo de Chavela observatory in MDSCC (Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex), now we are ready to control the telescope from CESAR Control Room in ESAC (European Space Astronomy Center).


The new rack with the observatory server, switch, power backup, etc. CESAR

The MDSCC team installed all the hardware devices, the weather station, the UPS, the webcams, the comunications, the power for al the components in the observatory.


External webcam and weather station. CESAR

In few weeks we will be ready to make remote observations with a new CESAR telescope control software.

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