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The NORT: Network of Oriental Robotic Telescopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Roger Hajjar ,
François R. Querci  and
Monique Querci
Roger Hajjar
Affiliation:
Department of Sciences, Notre-Dame University, Po-Box 72 Zouk Mikael, Lebanon (e-mail: rhajjar@ndu.edu.lb)
François R. Querci
Affiliation:
Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, 14 Av. Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France (e-mail: querci@ast.obs-mip.fr)
Monique Querci
Affiliation:
Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, 14 Av. Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France (e-mail: querci@ast.obs-mip.fr)

Abstract

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In this paper, we present the NORT, a network of oriental robotic telescopes originally proposed in 1993 by Querci & Querci to study stellar variability. The NORT project covers all of northern Africa and Asia near the tropic of Cancer. The interest generated among a number of astronomers in countries from the Arab World and Asia offers a solid basis for the rebirth of astronomy and astrophysics and space sciences in developing countries. The number of national projects for telescopes in different countries makes the NORT a framework of choice to coordinate and stimulate these separate efforts by the creation of a NORT steering committee.

Type
I. Telescope Arrays and Networking
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 183: Small-Telescope Astronomy on Global Scales , 2001 , pp. 33 - 38
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001

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