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Examples of instrumentation and software development at UCLO include:
- installation of robotic telescopes, enabling automatic acquisition of data whenever the weather is clear;
- customized control electronics to ensure that robotic telescopes are made safe in the event of adverse weather conditions;
- in-house development of software and web interfaces to manage the acquisition and processing of robotic-image data;
- development of custom optics (for example, re-imaging optics to observe the sulphur torus of Jupiter's moon Io).
We are also collaborating with KonicaMinolta Labs Europe to exploit a network of robotic telescopes (with instruments distributed around the world), working on the optimization of networks of small telescopes for research and teaching.