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Site Information |
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- Etscorn Campus Observatory is located on the
campus of New Mexico Tech in Socorro, New Mexico
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- ECO is located at 34° 04' 21.67" North
Latitude, 106° 54' 50.11" West Longitude
Altitude is 1423.77 meters (4671 feet)
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- New Mexico is in the Mountain Time Zone and observes
Daylight Savings Time
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- Average seeing at ECO is about 2 arcseconds
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- Sky brightness is about 16V
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Telescope |
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- The ECO robotic telescope is a 14 inch f/11 Celestron
Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector with a focal length of 3911.6 mm;
A focal reducer is generally used yielding a focal length of 1955.8 mm at f/5.5
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- The telescope is mounted on a Bisque Paramount
(equatorial mount)
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- The telescope is computer controlled using Software
Bisque's TheSky
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- Telescope altitude limit is about 20°
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- Maximum accurate tracking time is between 3-4 minutes
(autoguiding can be used for longer exposured)
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Imaging System |
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- The SBIG ST-8e CCD camera is attached to the
telescope at the Cassegrain focus
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- ST-8e imager is 1530 by 1020 with 0.009 micron pixels
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- Image Scale: FOV 24 x 16, ~ 1 arcsecond per pixel
(with focal reducer)
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- 2x2 and 3x3 binning modes
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- Limiting magnitude is about 18 V
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- The camera can be equipped with Cousins BVRI science
filters
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- A flat field screen is available
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