Completed Arrakis Observatory control room.
The control room is complete here. The observatory control PC is a Micron ATA RAID unit on the left with a 23 inch LCD display above it. The central CRT can be switched between an Intergraph SCSI RAID A/V editing and 3D animation PC at the bottom right and a small PC under the desk to the left of the chair used as an FTP, weather station and medical image server. The printers to the right are networked to the LAN and the units below it are SCSI disk, CD and tape drives. The devices in between the computer monitors are for switching audio and video amongst the various sources and outputs. The two CRTs above the computer monitors can display any of the video sources. The VCR in the center is RS-232 controlled by the Intergraph video editing software. A wireless weather console sits on the desk just above the chair where it receives real time date from a weather station on the roof and uploads it to the weather server. This data is displayed on the Arrakis site here on the Current Weather and Weather History pages.
The network camera server sits on the desk just to the right of the observatory control monitor. You can tell whenever a web site visitor is accessing the Observatory Cam as an LED on the server indicates it is being accessed. Sitting on the network server is a joystick controller to pan, tilt and zoom the Observatory Cam. To the left of the observatory control monitor is a box with a set of duplicate controls for the Stellacam with another parallel set of controls in the observatory. The display to the right on the shelf above the observatory control monitor gives a read out of the digital micrometer attached to the FSQ-106 focuser in the observatory.
At the upper left near the stuffed bird is the display and controller for the sensor which closes the observatory roof when a precipitation event occurs or prevents it from being opened if already closed. On the left wall are two dimmer switches for the observatory white and red lights and two switches that each control power to a 4-gang 110volt observatory outlet. There is also an infrared sensor on the wall there to relay IR commands to an emitter in the observatory. At the bottom left below the desk you can see a bunch of cables entering the wall which extend upward into the observatory via a wire raceway.
