Univerza v Ljubljani, FMF Fizika, Pot na Golovec 25, 1000 Ljubljana

The 36-cm telescope and CCD

 
 
The 36-cm Schmidt-Cassegrain and CCD		 The University of Ljubljana 36-cm, f/11 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope is fully computerized and equipped with the 574x385 thinned CCD, manufactured by Wright Instruments Ltd. An additional telecompressor yields the f/6.8 ratio and is very useful for observations of extended objects. A 10-cm, f/10 guiding telescope is mounted piggyback and attached with the ST-4 CCD autoguider. 

The telescope will be available for the participants of Astronomy On-Line project during the hot phase. 

The 36-cm telescope is most suitable for 
 

- standard BVRI stellar photometry
- imaging of faint comets
- imaging of deep-sky objects
 
 

The CCD imaging camera performances

CCD Sensor EEV CCD02-06-1-206 578x385 pixels, 22 um x 22 um pixel size, thinned, backside illuminated
Quantum efficiency 65% over the 430-650nm bandpass (check this CCD QE Curve for more details)
Cooling four stage Peltier at -76oC
Dark current 0.06e-/sec
ADU Conversion 4.7e- per ADU
Field of view 10.5 arcmin x 6.9 arcmin (at f/11); 16.7 arcmin x 10.9 arcmin (at f/6.8)
Data format FITS (16-bit)
Available broad band filters Standard B, V, R and I (*)
Guiding facilities ST-4 CCD autoguider
Limiting magnitude about 18m in one minute exposure with V filter 
(*) - Standard BVRI CCD photometric filters are according to "Glass filters for coated CCDs" proposed by Bessell [Bessell, M.S. (1990), PASP, 102, 1181] which match the standard BVRI passbands.

You may check this CCD detector fine performance by looking the sample images at our Image Gallery.

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