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Equipment

Telescope Meade LX200GPS-SMT 14"

diameter - 355,6 mm
focal length - 3556 mm
focal retio - f/10
resolution - 0,39"
limiting visual magnitude - 14,8 mag
limiting photographic magnitude - 17,9 mag
limiting CCD magnitude - 19,8 mag
sky/pixel - 0,5"/piksel
field of view - 8,9' x 13,3'
UHTC coating
fork mount
manual and electric slow-motion controls on both axes
3.5-Megabyte flash memory
High-Precision Pointing
145000-object onboard celestial software library
GPS alignment system with 16-channel GPS receiver

Detector CCD SBIG ST-8XE

Two CCD chips: Kodak KAF-1602E and TI TC-237
Pixel Array: 1530 x 1020 pixels, 13.8 x 9.2 mm
Total Pixels: 1,56 million
Pixel Size: 9 x 9 microns
Full Well Capacity (ABG): ~50,000 e-
Full Well Capacity (NABG): ~100,000 e-
Dark Current: 1e/pixel/sec at 0^o C
Exposure: 0.11 to 3600 seconds, 10ms resolution
Correlated Double Sampling
A/D Converter: 16 bits
A/D Gain: 2.3e-/ADU
Read Noise: 15e- RMS
Binning Modes: 1 x 1, 2 x 2, 3 x 3
Full Frame Acquisition: ~3,7 sekundy

Camera LPI (Lunar Planetary Imager) Meade

CMOS chip
Pixel Array: 640 x 480 pixels

Filter wheel and filters sets LRGB & UBVRI

filter L (light)
filter R (red)
filter G (green)
filter B (blue)
filter U (ultraviolet)
filter B (blue)
filter V (visible)
filter R (red)
filter I (infrared)

Objective Rubinar 5,6/500

diameter - 89 mm
focal length - 500 mm
f/5,6
resolving power - 1,55"
limiting visual magnitude - 11,5 mag
limiting photographic magnitude - 14,6 mag
limiting CCD magnitude - 16,5 mag
sky/pixel - 2,1"/pixel
field of view on CCD ST-8XE - 35,5' x 53,2'

Software

IRAF
Maxim DL

Projects

Lofar
Heweliusz

Interesting links

Conference ERPM

astronomy.com