MASTER

MASTER (Mobile Astronomical System of Telescope-Robots) is a Russian network of telescopes spreading to five Russian cities, South Africa, Argentina and the Canary Islands.[1] It started it's development in 2002 and it is in fully autonomous operations since 2011.[1]

On 17 August 2017, an autonomous MASTER telescope in Argentina successfully recorded a collision of neutron stars some 130 million light-years away.[1]

Notes
  1. "Russian System of Robotic Telescopes Detects Distortions in Space-Time Continuum".

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