The instrument currently in use on the 85cm telescope is:

MiCPhot － a Multicolor CCD Photometer that consists of
a Princeton Instrument MicroMAX 1024BFT CCD camera and a set of standard Johnson-Cousin-Bessel BVRI filters at the prime focus of the 85-cm Telescope. Please refer to this paper for details.

Observers may do BVRI sequential photometry on a fast-readout mode (short down to 1 second or less if using Frame Transfer function.  Expected objects magnitude ranged in V=9-17 mag;  FOV ~  16' x 16' at a scale of 0.96 arcsecond per pixel. 

Those have dismissed on the 85-cm telescope:
  • 2002－2007:  AP7P CCD photometer  at Cassegrain focus (out of work)
  • 1995－2006:  Four-channel Chevreton STEPHI photoelectric photometer (4-CH)
  • 1995－2006:  Three-channel WET high-speed photoelectric photometer (3-CH)
  • 2000－2002:  CCD lightcurve survey photometer (VAX computer controlled CCD, out of work)
  • 1996－1998:  Single-channel photoelectric photometer (1-CH, out of work)
  • 1994－1996:  Photoelectric Radial Velocity Spectrometer and Multi-color Photometer
85cm Dome Outside in the morning
The dome of 85cm telescope. Photo taken in the morning of December 4th,2007

85cm Telescope
The 85cm telescope:  As of the spring of 2007, it started to work on primary focus with
a PI MicroMax 1024 BFT CCD plus ACE SmartFilter BVRI filter system.

Control Room
The new observer's room -- photo taken on Jan.13, 2008.

An old introduction to the 85cm telescope available here.

This page modified on 2007-12-05