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Blue Mountains Observatory instrument

List of instruments:

Celestron C14 fastar

1. Celestron 1400 XLT reduced to f/ 5.9. with Optec focal reducer

2. SBIG ST8XME with external guider port. 5 position filterwheel with B,V,R,I and L filters.

3. External guider camera.

4. 120mm diameter F/5 Achromatic refractor.

5. Optec temperature compensated focuser.

6. Bisque Paramount MX.

7. CCD Commander scripting software

Observatory controller hardware

. AAG Cloud sensor and WMR 200 Oregon weather station

2. SkyX Pro, CCDSoft, T-point, @focus2 , CCD Commander

3. MPO V10 photometry software

4. Astrometrica

Planewave CDK 24" on fork mount

1. Planewave CDK 24" (0.61m) f /6.8 telescope. EFA electronic focuser.

Focal length 3798 mm

2. MI-1000 with 1250 fork mount and Sitech II controller.

3. Software used to control the telescope and mount are the Sky X pro, CCDSoft, T-Point, @focus2, Sitech II V090, CCD Commander

4. APOGEE U16M D09 enhanced cooling body.

• Specification:
  

• Front-illuminated KODAK KAF-16803 chip with anti-blooming.
  

• Size of the chip is 4096 x 4096 pixels; pixel size is 9 x 9 µm.
  

• bin 4x4; image scale is 3.72 arcsec/pix; 512 x 512 pixels; 36 x 36 µm.
  

• bin 3x3; image scale is 1.86 arcsec/pix; 1024 X 1024 pixels; 27 x 27 µm.
  

• bin 2X2; image scale is 0.93 arcsec/pix; 2048 X 2048 pixels; 18 x 18 µm.
  

• bin 1x1; image scale is 0.47 arcsec/pix; 4096 x 4096 pixels; 9 x 9 µm.
  

• CCD gain in e/ADU is 1.3; readout noise in e/pix is 11.
  

• Field of View at bin 1x1 is 32'  X 32'
  

• 10 position filter wheel with square filters L,R,G,B and parfocal Johnsons-Cousins photometric V,B,R,I filters and SLOAN Gen II filters g,z
  

5. 80 mm APO refractor f/6

6. ST-i auto guider

7. Mount Hub Pro/GPS