TOC Observatory - Denmark
THE OBSERVATORY BUILDING
We started building our new observatory in the beginning of 2002 at a new site around 15 km's north of Aarhus. The outside was finished on the 20th. of July the same year. Here you can se it from the drive way.
THE TELESCOPE
The observatory houses a 12.5 inch f:5 computer controlled Newtonian reflector. We started building the instrument in 1999.
Find link to building project further down on this page.
The new refractor - Oct. 2006
The Sky-Watcher telescope is a short focal length refractor. Aperture: 80 mm f/7.5 ED.
For remote focusing the telescope is equipped with a motor focus device - home build of course. The SkyWatcher is used both as a guiding scope and as a photographic instrument.
Some of the first images: M-31 - The Moon
THE CCD CAMERA
In 1997 we finished building The Cookbook Camera. See the building project here.
August 20th 2004 we got our new Starlight XPress SXV H9 CCD camera. The H9 is a b/w camera featuring 1392 x 1040 pixels and operating with a pixel size of 6.4 um.
Link to Starlight XPress SXV H9 home page
Projekt 12.5" Newton
1. En solid gaffel
2. Støbningen af gaffel
3. Overview
4. Tubus
5. Spejlcellen
6. Fokuseringsenheden
7. Snekkehjul
8. Testkørsel
9. Styreelektronikken
10. Prøvekørsel i observatoriet
11. First light
12. Nye stepmotorer
13. Nye snekker og snekkehjul
14. Hvad har vi lært?
15. Projekt filterhjul
Projekt observatorium
1. Planlægningsfasen
2. Byggeprojektet starter
3. Bygning af træskelettet
4. Bygningen beklædes
5. Kuplen ombygges
6. Kuplen sættes op
7. Det indvendige
8. Opstilling af teleskopet
9. Ny kuppel - 2009
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