Kiso observatory
The Kiso Observatory ( Japanese 木 曽 観 測 所 , Kiso kansokujo ) is a Japanese observatory in Kiso on Mount Ontake . The observatory was founded in 1974 and is directed by the Institute of Astronomy, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo .
The largest instrument in the observatory is a Schmidt telescope with a 105 cm aperture . This telescope, constructed in the 1970s, is designed for photo plates with dimensions of 36 × 36 cm² and records a field of view of 6 ° × 6 ° on them. In 1987 it was converted to a CCD image recorder. At the beginning of the 1990s, equipment with a CCD array was examined. Later, a large-format CCD chip, shaped to match the curvature of the image field, was used; in this configuration the telescope has a high UV sensitivity. In cooperation with Canon , the telescope is 2011 with a scale wafer - CMOS sensor has been upgraded which has an edge length of 205 mm. With this sensor, the telescope captures an image field of 3.6 ° × 3.6 ° and is particularly suitable for studying faint meteors .
The Schmidt telescope can also be operated as a Cassegrain telescope.
The second telescope the observatory has is a Dall-Kirkham type with an opening diameter of 30 cm. It bears the designation K.3T .
The asteroid of the central main belt (2271) discovered on October 22, 1976 at the Kiso Observatory Kiso was named after the observatory.
Web links
- Kiso Observatory (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sekiguchi, Maki; Iwashita, Hikaru; Doi, Mamoru; Kashikawa, Nobunari; Okamura, Sadanori: Development of a 2000 X 8144-pixel mosaic CCD camera , Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Publications ( ISSN 0004-6280 ), vol. 104, no.679, p. 744-751, 1992, bibcode : 1992PASP..104..744S
- ↑ Nobunan Itoh, Takao Soyano, Ken'rchi Tarusawa, Tsutomu Aoki, Sigeomi Yoshida, Takashi Hasegawa, Yasushi Yadomaru, Yoshikazu Nakada, Satoshi Miyazaki: A Very Wide-Field CCD Camera for Kiso Schmidt Telescope (PDF; 739 kB), publ. Natl. Astron. Obs. Japan Vol. 6. pp. 41-48, 2001
- ↑ Canon ultra-large-scale, ultra-high-sensitivity CMOS sensor makes possible wide field-of-view video recording of meteors with equivalent apparent magnitude of 10 ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was used automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release from September 15, 2011
- ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 185 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on November 3, 2017] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “Named for the station of the Tokyo Observatory at which this minor planet was discovered. "
