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The paper describes the design and the realization of a multiple-function photoelectric photometer made by Trieste Observatory for Torino Observatory. The system design shows a two-beam, sequential multiband photon counting and analog photoelectric photometer configuration based on a PDP8/E computer for the control and data acquisition and elaboration. The actual realization of the system and the use of it in the one-beam configuration operating now at torino Observatory shows the advantages of such a solution and the easiness in modifying and determining the system functions by software programs rather than by hardware specials.
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Work supported by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Gruppo Nazionale di Astronomia, Settore Tecnologie Astronomiche. The realization of the machine was fully supported by Torino Observatory. Trieste Observatory-Instruments and Data Processing Group (5/76).
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Furlani, S., Sedmak, G. The multifunction photoelectric photometer of Torino Observatory. Astrophys Space Sci 48, 65–78 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00643040
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00643040