Astronomische Arbeitsgruppe Laufen e.V.

Die gleiche Information in deutscher Sprache.

Observatory:

We cooperate with the observatory of the Rottmayr-Gymnasium Laufen (grammar school), whose rooms we share. The leader of the school's observatory is Gerardo Inhester.

Address:

There an open day takes place every year at a Saturday in early October.
The exact date you can find here.

Equipment:

• Meade 16" LX-200 Schmidt-Cassegrain (f=4064mm) on an equatorial mount in a 3m-dome of glass-fibre reinforced plastic material, cardanically mounted guide telescope Meade 5" 127ED apochromate (f=1160mm)
• Celestron-C8 on Super-Polaris-DX (portable)
• 4"-Maksutov, f=1m
• 3"-Refractor, f=1.4m
• Photographical equipment:
  • Meade Pictor 1616 CCD Camera and Epoch 2000 Control and Image Processing Software
  • Astrocamera made by Wachter, 9*12cm plates, lens made by Schneider-Kreuznach, Xenar 1:4.5/210mm
  • 2"-Lumicon Easy-Guider
  • 1.25"-Lumicon Easy-Guider
  • Vixen VX-1 astrocamera
  • Edixa Reflex-C camera
• Computer: Pentium with the following software (list is incomplete)
  • The Sky (Windows, pictures on CD)
  • Sky Map (Windows)
  • Planetarium (DOS)
  • Mondfinsternis (translated: Lunar Eclipse, DOS)
  • ECU, Earth Centered Universe (Windows)
  • Astronomy Lab (Windows)
  • Netscape, local copy of these WWW-pages (no connection to the net)

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