PISES OBSERVATORY, May 2006
Pises lake, behind the lake the "Mont Aigoual" ridge, here more information regarding Pises Observatory
4m dome and its solar panels.
Two telescopes in a single mount : left a 500mm F/4.4, right a 400 mm F/25 cassegrain telescope.
500 mm telescope, F4.4 newtonian focal plane has a camera installed.
The focal plane is equipped with a :
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Chungara CCD camera (KAF6303), provinding a 43x28 arcmin diagonal field of view, the pixel scale in binning 1x1 is 0.87arcsec/pixel
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Optec IFW filter wheel (5 filters)
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Field corrector from Astrooptik (coma correction)
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JMI focuser (3", slightly modified), fully motorized and remotely driven
All these devices are driven by the PRISM Software.
Moon and Venus, before sunrise ...