Automatic Telescope Instruction Set 2000 (ATIS2000)
Introduction
The Automatic Telescope Instruction Set is
an interface language which
provides a means for controlling unattended
astronomical telescopes
and the recovery of data generated by those
telescopes. ATIS is
intended to allow the capabilities of various
automated astronomical
instruments to be utilized by the community
of astronomers. ATIS
allows expansion to include new capabilities
as they are developed by
the designers and users of automatic telescopes.
ATIS2000 adds capability for Spectroscopic
observing, and telescope networking to the
ATIS93 specification. Additionally many other
command statements have been added and the
format of the document changed.
In keeping with our release policy ATIS2000
will remain in the draft stage until all
aspects of the specification have been implemented
on a working system.