Observatories (Overview)

Observatorium  Sonnenturm  Uecht

Location:  
Altitude:  		 46° 51' 17" N / 07° 27' 14" E  
960 m asl.  
ID:  
IAU code:  		 SON
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Internet:  
Speed:  		 Yes
up: 37 MB/s / down: 197 MB/s

Optics / Equipment:

  
Refractor D = 132 mm, f =   925 mm (f/7)
  
Refractor D = 101 mm, f = 1504 mm (f/15)
  
Refractor D = 101 mm, f = 1537 mm (f/15.4)
  
Refractor D =   80 mm, f =   352 mm (f/4.4)
  
Reflector type Newton D = 200 mm, f = 560 mm (f/2.8)

Competences / Fields  of  activities:

No.    Competence    Sub-Field    Equipment
                    
1    Solar Observation    1.1 White light
1.3 Calcium light
1.4 Sun spots		    Herschelkeil (Baader)
Filter (Lunt)
Visual observations in order of Wolfinstitute
                    
2    Meteor Observation    2.3 Allsky recording
2.4 Radio detection		    Allsky cam
Radio receiver (coming soon)
                    
5    Radioastronomy    5.5 Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances (SID)    superSID (Stanford University)
                    
7    Photometry / Variables    7.1 Brightness
7.2 Variability
7.3 Exoplanets		    B, V, Rc, Ic, stroemgren b, v
Cepheids
ETD, TFOP
                    
8    Astronomical Imaging    8.1 Sun
8.6 Deep Sky		    DSLR, CCD
Narrow band
                    
15    Meteorology    15.1 Weather Station
15.2 Cloud Coverage		    Davis Vantage pro V2
Boltwood Cloud Sensor II
                    
16    Sky Brightness    16.1 Measurement
16.2 Monitoring		    Unihedron Sky Quality Meter (SQM)
Unihedron SQM-LE

Remarks:

   Equipment is normally used by unattended remote control or records measurements automatically.

Contacts:

   Organisation:    Observatorium Sonnenturm Uecht
           
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