Remote secure observing for the Faulkes Telescopes

Robert J. Smith; Iain A. Steele; Jonathan M.H. Marchant; Stephen N. Fraser; Dorothea Mucke-Herzberg

doi:10.1117/12.551488

15 September 2004 Remote secure observing for the Faulkes Telescopes

Robert J. Smith, Iain A. Steele, Jonathan M.H. Marchant, Stephen N. Fraser, Dorothea Mucke-Herzberg

Proceedings Volume 5496, Advanced Software, Control, and Communication Systems for Astronomy; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551488
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

Since the Faulkes Telescopes are to be used by a wide variety of audiences, both powerful engineering level and simple graphical interfaces exist giving complete remote and robotic control of the telescope over the internet. Security is extremely important to protect the health of both humans and equipment. Data integrity must also be carefully guarded for images being delivered directly into the classroom. The adopted network architecture is described along with the variety of security and intrusion detection software. We use a combination of SSL, proxies, IPSec, and both Linux iptables and Cisco IOS firewalls to ensure only authenticated and safe commands are sent to the telescopes. With an eye to a possible future global network of robotic telescopes, the system implemented is capable of scaling linearly to any moderate (of order ten) number of telescopes.

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Robert J. Smith, Iain A. Steele, Jonathan M.H. Marchant, Stephen N. Fraser, and Dorothea Mucke-Herzberg "Remote secure observing for the Faulkes Telescopes", Proc. SPIE 5496, Advanced Software, Control, and Communication Systems for Astronomy, (15 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551488

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