GUIDE TO THE SCHMIDT TELESCOPE
by Róbert Szabó
Last modified by Miklós Rácz on Sep. 12th, 2011.
WARNING
THIS MANUAL IS NO WAY A SUBSTITUTE FOR AN
INTRODUCTION TO THE TELESCOPE AND CAMERA BY A STAFF ASTRONOMER!
TELESCOPE DATA
Diameter: 60/90 cm
Focal length: 180
cm
Optical design:
Schmidt
Field of view: 5
degrees, 160 x 160 sq.mm
Manufacturer: Carl
Zeiss Jena
Year of
installation: 1962
Telescope manufacturer: VEB Carl
Zeiss Jena
Architect: György Szrogh
Instrumentation:
2 deg. and 5
deg. objective prism,
cassette holder
for photographic plates (unmounted),
Apogee Alta U16
liquid-cooled CCD camera,
Optec IFW 3"
filter wheel,
58mm square Bessell
1990 BVRI filters
Location:
Piszkéstető, Mátra Mountains, Hungary
Latitude: +47 deg
55' 05"9
Longitude: +19 deg 53' 39"6
Height above the Baltic sea
level: 937.55 m
Time zone: MET
More details and technical
instructions can be found in German, in "Beschreibung und
Bedienungsanleitung für 90-cm-Spiegelteleskop mit
parallaktischer Gabelmontierung" manual, or in Hungarian, in
"Parallaktikus,
villa-felerősítésű 90 cm-es tükörteleszkóp leirása és használati
utasitása" manual in the dome and in the libraries in
Svábhegy and in Piszkéstet?.
The telescope control computer
M9.konkoly.hu is in the observation level, and it has a periphery
duplication system. The secondary monitor, keyboard and mouse are
in the computer room, in the first floor of the dome. In the
computer room there is the
CCD camera control computer M5.konkoly.hu with a Linux UBUNTU and a WindowsXP
operating systems, it is connected to the dome control computer
via local area network.
In case of any technical problem
with the dome or the telescope, contact Miklós Rácz (e-mail:
racz@konkoly.hu)
No instrumentation should be
installed or modified without the permission of the technical
deputy director.
Publications using observations made
at Piszkesteto should contain an acknowledgement, and should
appropriately refer to the telescope and detector.
ccdsh
Observing and telescope control program - Under
construction (Hungarian)
Schmidt
fókuszállítás - Focusing (Hungarian)
Léptetőmotoros óragép
és óraszög irányú finommozgatás (Hungarian)
A deklinációs mozgásokat vezérlő
mikrokontroller leírása (Hungarian)
Schmidt Sideral Clock - A sziderikus kavarcóra leírása (Hungarian)
Computer control of the slit doors - A résajtó
számítógépes vezérlése (Hungarian)
Telescope and dome control window on
the M9 computer under WindowsXP operating system - Használati
útmutató a Schmidt01
programhoz (Hungarian)
A fókusz vezérlése és a
távcsőkoordináták beolvasása a mérőgépről (Hungarian)
In case of technical problems
with the dome or the telescope contact Miklós Rácz (
).
More information about
the local computer system can be found at http://www.konkoly.hu/local/
in Users guide to the Piszkéstető Mountain Station Computer
System.
