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

我们的目标是建立一个设施，使学生和公众可以在所有晴朗的夜晚使用我们的望远镜观察。每年，我们有大约1000名游客观星现场和大约1000为我们的公众观察会议在每个冬季的第一个星期五。有这样一个胃口看星星和我的学生建议我们设计一个系统类似于福克斯系统，公众可以使用望远镜更频繁。我们向支持学生的Andy Newsam寻求建议，我们最初认为我们需要购买一些软件来设置系统。然而，学生们开始编写一个全新的工作系统。我们需要的是一个好的相机系统，以便公众可以拍摄高质量的照片。RAS给了我们一半的钱，所以我们需要另一半来购买CCD。许多学校前来观察，有些学校询问为他们的GCSE天文学课程拍摄图像-我们可以让他们使用相机访问。我们认为这是一种新方法。它没有福克斯望远镜项目的规模，但它可能会建立一个先例，其他天文台可以遵循。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点，作为一种鼓励人们从舒适的自己家里开始观察的方式。我们将在整个肯特广泛宣传该项目，并通过网站上的点击率来说明该项目的广泛使用-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/