Features

Current RTS2 features included:

integrated on-line astrometry using either astrometry.net package or any other command-line astrometry package
target creating from SIMBAD (fixed position target)
observations targets for the Moon, planets, dwarf planets, and any solar system bodies
module for receiving and processing of the GCN gamma-ray bursts alerts
GRB observation driven by scripts, which can depends on time from the GRB event
PostgreSQL database, which store all details about observation, including images with WCS coordinates
ncurses based monitoring (rts2-mon), which allows you to control observation progress
INDI-enabled server to feed telescope pointing informations to your KStars desktop planetarium
priority-function (selector), planned (night schedule), manual (from rts2-mon) and urgent (GRBs) observations
Plug-and-play architecture for weather sensors (rain, cloud, wind,..). Each sensor can vote for bad weather, and you can specify which sensors are necessary for observatory to operate

We plan to add to RTS2 following features:

Horizon service (JPL-NASA) integration for parameters of the small solar system bodies
targets for artificial earth-orbiting satellites
VO-enabled interface for the image database
Jabber-driven client-server network for the exchange of the informations about observing requests
sending Jabber text messages to your Jabber client, so you will know what telescope is doing
GUI for target editing and observation management
Genetic algorithm scheduling (based on this work: http://lascaux.asu.cas.cz/~petr/proyecto/scheduling.pdf.