The observatory



The major components of the inner life of the observatory are (current state of development):

• The column (self built)
  
• The mount (self built)
• The control of the mount (FS2)
  
• The telescope (C14 Celestron)
• The connection of telescope and spectrograph (folding mirror and crosshair eyepeace)
  
• The slit spectrograph (Shelyak, Lhires III #19)
• The autoguider (SBIG ST-4 or ALccd5))
  
• The science-camera (Sigma 1603 ME)
• Other peripherals such as power supplies, PC's, lighting, air dryer for summer operation, heater for winter operation.

If you want to know details of the above components, then click the links. .

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