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Southern Remote Observatory, Roland Christen

Southern Remote Observatory

Southern Remote Observatory, Roland Christen

Southern Remote Observatory

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Back a few years ago we got permission to install a remote telescope in an unused roll-off roof observatory at Las Campanas in the high desert of northern Chile. The scope is a custom AP 12 inch F8 Maksutov-Cassegrain Astrograph with an FLI 16803 CCD camera, a 10 position filter wheel and off-axis guide camera. The mount is an Astro-Physics 1600 with dual axis absolute encoders that is controlled remotely over the internet. The system is shared by a number of users* and by our remote team at Astro-Physics. Over the years the scope has done scientific work, educational instruction, and has taken a large number of deep sky images. Some of them will be posted here.

The picture shows the scope in the shadow of the Twin Magellan Observatory of Las Campanas. The principal installers in the picture, L-R, are Dave Jurasevich, Roland Christen, Mike Long, and Marj Christen (not shown) who took the picture.

* Carnegie Institute is doing super nova follow-up studies with this scope.

Roland Christen

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