Title: INSTRUMENTATION AT THE GETTYSBURG OBSERVATORY
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2INSTRUMENTATION AT THE GETTYSBURG
OBSERVATORY.And what to do with it.
American Astronomical Society 205th meeting, San
Diego, Jan 13, 2005
3Gettysburg College Observatoryview from the
southeast
4The Gettysburg 16 Reflector
- F/11 0.4 m
- Mfr. Ealing, 1968
- Upgrade by ACE, Tucson, 1996
- Camera Photometrics 350 TE Cooled High Speed
readout - Chip SiTE 003B 1024 x 1024 pixels
- ACE 2-wheel filter box 16 slots
- STV-Offset Guider
5Camera and Filter Box
6Computer Control from Remote Warm Room(software
and Hardware by ACE)
7Offset Guider and Tube Cooling
8SBIG STV Automatic Guider
9Auxiliary Chilled Water Circulator for CCD
10Dome Control and Dome Cooling
11Warm Room Controls and Hardware
12Astronomers View of the Controls
DVD
VHS
Sidereal Time
Universal Time
Autoguider Display
Stereo/FM
Autoguider
Telescope Control
CCD control
13Guider and CCD controls
14CCD and Telescope Controls
15The ACE Telescope Control Screen
16Observatory Monitors and Sidereal Timebase
17Filter Controller (serial data input)
18Observatory Power Control(manual and computer
controlled)
19Observing Aids Phase predictor for eclipsing
Binary Stars
20Automatic Image Data Logging
21OBSERVING PROJECTS
- FACULTY-STUDENT RESEARCH
- Astrometry of critical list asteroids
- Photometry of Eclipsing Binary Stars ---
collaboration with G. Torres, et al, CFA - Target of Opportunity Light curves of bright
supernova - Transits of Extrasolar Planets
- ADVANCED PHYSICS LAB EXERCISES
- CCD photometry of short period variables (d
Scuti, SX Phe) - Astrometry of bright asteroids
22Photometry of Eclipsing Binaries and Bright
Supernovas
23Extrasolar Planet Photometry
24The Gettysburg Asteroid PatrolSearch Strategy
25Software to Blink and Measure Asteroids
26The Gettysburg Asteroid Patrol T-Shirt Logo
27A wider angle view of the Gettysburg College
Observatory
28October, 2004 the bad newsClark Field opens..
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