Abstract

Control System for an Amateur Telescope (CSAT) is a distributed telescope control system model for amateur telescopes with transparent interchangeable components, built using the ALMA Common Software (ACS) framework. The CSAT project has been thought as the first step towards a generic telescope control model, which will consist on a generic control framework for any telescope mount. With the ACS Container/Component model, a completely different hardware can be supported by just re-implementing the low-level components for the new setup. This way, CSAT becomes a very good example of all the features that ACS provides for building a generic telescope control framework.