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BOOTES-1B is an independent robotic observatory with a 30 cm aperture telescope dedicated to simultaneous and
follow-up optical observations of high-energy transient cosmic
phenomena, such as Gamma-Ray bursts, Soft gamma repeaters, Supernova
and similar. Further objective is a study of variable stars, active
galaxies or nearby minor planets.
The telescope is located at the atmospheric sounding station
(Estación de Sondeos Atmosféricos—ESAt, INTA) of El Arenosillo in
Andalucía, Spain. A nearby, older dome (BOOTES-1A) is used for
complementary wider angle instruments.
Mr. Martin Jelínek inside the BOOTES-1B
observatory The telescope uses Linux based RTS2 as an observing system since 2003. All G2, G3
and G4 cameras are supported by RTS2 software package since 2010, so
the cooled, slow-scan CCD camera G2-1600 replaced the previously used
camera on BOOTES-1B telescope and is now used as the main imaging
camera.
G2-1600 CCD camera on the BOOTES-1B telescope All images courtesy of Martin Jelínek.
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