Langton Robotic Telescope providing wide access to a 16 inch Schmidt Cassegrain telescope via the web for schools and the public.

我们的目标是建造一个设施，让学生和公众可以在所有晴朗的夜晚使用我们的望远镜进行观测。每年我们有大约1000名参观者参加现场观星活动，每年冬天的第一个星期五，我们的公众观测会大约有1000名参观者。人们有如此强烈的观星欲望，我的学生建议我们设计一种类似福克斯系统的系统，让公众可以更频繁地使用望远镜。我们征求了支持学生的安迪·纽萨姆的建议，我们最初认为我们需要购买一些软件来设置系统。然而，学生们开始着手编写一种全新的系统，该系统可以工作。我们当时需要的是一个好的摄像系统，这样公众就可以拍出高质量的照片。RAS给了我们一半的钱，所以我们需要另一半来购买ccd。许多学校前来观摩，一些学校询问为他们的GCSE天文学课程拍摄图像--我们可以通过相机让他们了解这一点。我们认为这是一种新的方法。它没有福克斯望远镜项目那样的规模，但它可能会开创其他天文台可以效仿的先例。当地的天文学会，东南肯特天文学会非常热衷于帮助推广这一方法，以此来鼓励人们开始在自己家里舒适地进行观测。我们将在肯特郡广泛宣传该项目，并在网站上通过点击注意到该项目被更广泛地采用-http://obs-server.thelangton.org.uk/

We aim to make a facility so that students and the public can observe on all clear nights using our telescope. Each year we have about 1000 vistors for Stargazing Live and about a 1000 for our public observing sessions on the first Friday of every winter month. There is such an appetite to look at the stars and my students suggested we devise a system similar to the Faulkes system where the public can use the telescope much more often. We sought advice from Andy Newsam who supported the students and we initially thought we would need to buy some software to set up the system. However the students set to work programming a whole new sytem which works. What we then needed was a good camera system so that the public can take high quality pictures. The RAS gave us half of the money so we need the other half to purchase the CCD. Many schools come up to observe and some ask about taking images for their GCSE astronomy coursework - we can make this accessible to them with the camera.We think this is a new approach. It doesn't quite have the scale of the Faulkes Telescope Project but it might establish a precedent that other observatories could follow. The local astronomy society, South East Kent Astronomical Society is very keen to help promote this as a way to encourage people to start observing from the comfort of their own home. We will give the project wide publicity across Kent and note by hits on the website the take up more widely - http://obs-server.thelangton.org.uk/