ROTSE Telescopes

The Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE) consists of two phases (so far). These phases are called ROTSE-I and ROTSE-III. ROTSE-II was an abortive intermediary step between the two.
ROTSE-I, retired from active operation, held four CCD cameras.	Jim Wren and Robert Kehoe with ROTSE-I in 1998
ROTSE-III consists of four 0.45-m robotic reflecting telescope which is managed by a fully-automated system of interacting daemons within a Linux environment. The telescope has an f-ratio of 1.9, yielding a field of view (FOV) of 1.85°×1.85°.	The ROTSE-IIIa telescope in Los Alamos in 2001
ROTSE-III Documentation
We have written a comprehensive technical description of the ROTSE-III system, published in the PASP journal. You can retrieve a pdf version of that paper here. The ROTSE-III telescope has an extensive manual that documents the functioning of its control system, instructs the user in how to both set up and interact with the telescope, and explains the data products as well as the software tools that are available to analyze them. We have this documentation available in several formats:
A gzipped PostScript File (500k) is available here.
A hyper-linked PDF File (1.5M) is a available here.
A raw PostScript File (3.4M) is available here.
An online html version is available here.