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Our Telescopes

Teleskop installeras. Foto.
The Arnes Eye Telescope being installed.

Arnes Öga

(The Arnes Eye Telescope)

Year: 2019
Reflector: PlaneWave CDK24, a Dall-Kirkham Astrograph with a 24" primary mirror
Mount:  PlaneWave L-mount
CCD:  3K chip with a filterwheel with 7 slots
Available filters: UBVRI, H-alpha, SII and OIII
Spectrograf:  Echelle Spectrograph with average resolution of 18000, covering the wavelength region btw 392-780 nm.

Telescope on a sunny day
The teaching telescope

The Teaching telescope

Year: 2016
Mount: German equatorial mount (10micron GM2000HPS II)
Reflector: Schmidt-Cassegrain, 35.56cm aperture, f/11, focal length 3910mm, manufactured by Celestron, with optional white-light solar filter
Refractor: 10 cm aperture, f/9, focal length 900mm, manufactured by Celestron, with optional Halpha solar filter
Finder scope: 10x60, manufactured by Baader Planetarium, with optional white-light solar filter
 

The Meridian Telescope. Photo.
The meridian telescope

The Meridian Telescope

 (not in use)

Year: 1874
Location: Lobby of the Astronomy building

Page manager: tbensby [at] astro [dot] lu [dot] se | 29 Mar 2021