The 80cm telescope is a telescope co-built by the Astrophysical Center
of Tsinghua University (ACTU) and the National Astronomical Observatories
of China (NAOC). It is located at Xinglong Observatory, NAOC. The observing
time are shared by the astronomers of ACTU and NAOC..
The telescope is manufactured by a German company -- APM telescopes.
It was installed in November, 2003. It is proposed to be used to do
photometry for supernovae, optical afterglow of GRBs and AGNs.
The telescope is of the classical Cassegrain design. It is equipped
with a corrector and a reducer.
Effective
field of view: about 20 arcsec
Diameter:
80cm
Effective
focal length: 8m
Filters:
UBVRI broad band filters and a clear one
CCD
camera: PI 1k (14mu,
1024 x1024) pixel scale is 0Ħħ.3. FOV is 5 arcmin x 5 arcmin PI 1300 (20mu,
1340x1300) pixel scale is 0Ħħ.43. FOV is 9 arcmin x 9 arcmin
Softerware: Telescope
controlling software: AUTOSLEW Atuomatic
observation program and A GRB automatic triggering program
applications
