TELESCOPES AND CAMERAS

Rozhen NAO is equipped with five telescopes: a universal 2 m Ritchey-Chretien-Coude (RCC) reflector, 1.5 m telescope ASA AZ1500, 50/70 cm Schmidt camera, 60 cm Cassegrain telescope “Zeiss-600” and “home-made” 15 cm solar coronagraph. Observations of wide class for astronomical and astrophysical problems – from investigations of solar system bodies till extragalactic objects are obtained here.

Technical documentation,

User manuals

Others light-receivers

Telescopes

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2 m RCC-telescope

Optical design;

User manual (PDF 941 KB)

About the package TPOINT (PDF 804 KB, bulgarian)

User manual for the old control system (archive, HTML 730 KB, bulgarian)

Sensors:

Cameras Andor iKon-L

Coude spectrograph

CCD-camera VersArray 1300B (no longer used)

CCD-camera Photometrics CE200A (no longer used)

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1.5 m telescope ASA AZ1500

Optical parameters

Telescope technical data from the manufacturer's website

The New 1.5 m telescope at NAO Rozhen (video)

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Cassegrain telescope “Zeiss-600”

Optical parameters, photos

Sensors:

CCD-camera FLI PL 9000

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50/70 cm Schmidt-telescope

Optical parameters, photos

User manual (Bulgarian)

Sensors:

CCD-camera FLI PL 16803

CCD-camera SBIG STL-11000M

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15 cm Coronagraph

Sector “Sun” (Bulgarian, PDF, 685 KB)

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A Visitor center

About the Center

30 cm Meade telescope – photogallery

Cameras

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CCD-cameras Andor iKon-L

2048 x 2048 pixels, 13.5 x 13.5 μm pixel size

Documentation:

Camera iKon-L 21490 for the RC-focus and for red channel of FoReRo-2

Camera iKon-L 15685 for the blue channel of FoReRo-2

Camera iKon-L 21703 for ESpeRo

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CCD-camera Andor Newton, serial № 21642, , for the Coude-spectrograph

2048 x 512 pixels, 13.5 x 13.5 μm pixel size

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CCD-camera VersArray 1300 B (no longer used)

Sponsored by UNESCO - ROSTE

1340 x 1300 active pixels, 20 x 20 μm pixel size

Documentation (PDF, 122 KB)

Documentation (HTML и JPG, 820 KB)

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CCD-camera Photometrics CE200A (no longer used)

1024 x 1024 active pixels, 24 x 24 μm pixel size

User manual (bulgarian)

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CCD-camera SBIG STL-11000M (of Sofia University)

4008 x 2672 active pixels, 9 x 9 μm pixel size

The camera - appearance

To SBIG WEB-page

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CCD-camera FLI PL 16803

4096 x 4096 active pixels, 9 x 9 μm pixel size

Camera instalation guide (PDF, 720 KB)

Work guide (GSview PS, 14.34 kB, bulgarian)

QE-curve (new window)

To WEB-site of Finger Lakes Instrumentation

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CCD-camera FLI PL 9000

3056 x 3056 active pixels, 12 x 12 mm pixel size

User manual (bulgarian, PDF 248 KB)

QE-curve (new window)

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Vessel for liquid Nitrogen 50 L (no longer used)

User manual (bulgarian)

Others light-receivers

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Coude-spectrograph of the 2-m RCC-telescope

User manuals. Author: dr. Dimitar Kolev (Bulgarian only)

Part 1: Preparation for work (PDF 1.5 MB)

Part 2: The work place (PDF 1.3 MB)

Part 3: Software „4А (PDF 2.1 MB)

Spectral atlas of the Thorium standard lamp

CCD-camera Andor Newton 21642

Basic knowledge on the high-resolution astrospectroskopy and the reguired instrumentation (PDF 1.3 MB)

Optical design of the Coude-spectrograph

Guide-system for the Coude-spectrograph.

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Two-channel focal reducer “FoReRo 2”

Optical design and parameters (bulgarian)

Camera iKon-L 21490 for the red channel

Camera iKon-L 15685 for the blue channel

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Auto-Guide for the RC-focus of the 2m RCC-telescope

User manual (bulgarian, DOC, 1.9 MB);

Methods of catch a star (bulgarian).

More information for the Oobservatory

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Maps and routes to NAO-Rozhen