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Student Engineering Projects for 2019




WHT Dome Shutter Control System Replacement Project

 

The control system for the William Herschel Telescope dome shutter will be replaced with a modern system based on PLC tecnnologies.  The project is now in the early phase with a formal tender excerise expected to be completed by the end of March 2019.




 
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