The second half of November was a very busy time on La Palma for our project. We managed to successfully replace the prototype mount and 4 telescopes with brand new hardware. The final setup consists of 16 fast, wide-field H400 astrographs (40cm/f2.4) shared between two independent equatorial DDM500 mounts installed in the individual clam-shell domes.…
This summer our team visited La Palma and along with the manufacturer’s crew they successfully installed new telescope array in the second dome. The setup consists of eight fast 40cm/2.4 H400 astrographs on shared DDM500 mount. Each telescope is fitted with LRGB colour filter wheel and 50 MPix CCD camera with pixel scale of 1.28″.…
We are happy to announce that the on-sky factory test of the second GOTO system was successful. These were performed outside ASA headquarters in wintry conditions. All tracking and wind-resistance tests were within expected specs and with excellent tracking performance. An impressive slewing speed of 10 degrees per second was achieved with pointing accuracy better…
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