OPA! The Original PolyOculus Array- Breaking ground toward low-cost spectroscopy for the community

Christina D. Moraitis; Stephen Eikenberry; Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa; Misty C. Bentz; Anthony Gonzalez; Joseph Harrington; Sarik Jeram; Nicholas Law; Tom Maccarone; Robert Quimby; Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias; Amanda Townsend; Craig Warner; Stephanos Yerolatsitis; David Wright; Hailey Reale; Michael Reale; Joseph Foran; Nathaniel Harmon; Nicholas Pinkham; Kara Semmen; Jasper Rowe; Aiden Akers; Noor Salem; Vincent Pagliuca

doi:10.1117/12.2620508

4 October 2022 OPA! The Original PolyOculus Array- Breaking ground toward low-cost spectroscopy for the community

Christina D. Moraitis, Stephen Eikenberry, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Misty C. Bentz, Anthony Gonzalez, Joseph Harrington, Sarik Jeram, Nicholas Law, Tom Maccarone, Robert Quimby, Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias, Amanda Townsend, Craig Warner, Stephanos Yerolatsitis, David Wright, Hailey Reale, Michael Reale, Joseph Foran, Nathaniel Harmon, Nicholas Pinkham, Kara Semmen, Jasper Rowe, Aiden Akers, Noor Salem, Vincent Pagliuca

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Proceedings Volume 12182, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IX; 121821R (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2620508
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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The OPA project, the Original PolyOculus Array, uses the PolyOculus technology to create a large-area-equivalent telescope by using fiber optics to link seven semi-autonomous, small, inexpensive, commercial-off-the-shelf telescopes. OPA will use seven, Celestron 11" telescopes with iOptron central-balanced equatorial (CEM 70) mounts to create a 0.74m equivalent optical telescope for spectroscopic follow up observations. This telescope will include 7 acquisition and guiding systems (one per telescope) to appropriately center objects in the telescopes’ field of view along with an atmospheric dispersion corrector for each unit. That light will then be sent through single optical fibers (one fiber per telescope) and to a photonic lantern where the light from all seven telescopes will be combined then sent to a spectrograph. OPA will be commissioned and operated at Mount Laguna Observatory in southern California.

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Christina D. Moraitis, Stephen Eikenberry, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Misty C. Bentz, Anthony Gonzalez, Joseph Harrington, Sarik Jeram, Nicholas Law, Tom Maccarone, Robert Quimby, Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias, Amanda Townsend, Craig Warner, Stephanos Yerolatsitis, David Wright, Hailey Reale, Michael Reale, Joseph Foran, Nathaniel Harmon, Nicholas Pinkham, Kara Semmen, Jasper Rowe, Aiden Akers, Noor Salem, and Vincent Pagliuca "OPA! The Original PolyOculus Array- Breaking ground toward low-cost spectroscopy for the community", Proc. SPIE 12182, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IX, 121821R (4 October 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2620508

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