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Current Status of Lulin Observatory and of the One-Meter Telescope: Operation and Management

Current Status of Lulin Observatory and of the One-Meter Telescope: Operation and Management. H. C. Lin & M. H. Chang Graduate Institute of Astronomy National Central University. LOT. Lulin One-meter Telescope (LOT) 2002/09 – Installation, Alignment 2002/10 ~12 – Test Observing

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Current Status of Lulin Observatory and of the One-Meter Telescope: Operation and Management

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  1. Current Status of Lulin Observatory and of the One-Meter Telescope: Operation and Management H. C. Lin & M. H. Chang Graduate Institute of AstronomyNational Central University

  2. LOT • Lulin One-meter Telescope (LOT) • 2002/09 – Installation, Alignment • 2002/10 ~12 – Test Observing • 2003/01 – Time Allocation

  3. LOT • Cassegrain optics • Fork type equatorial mount • D=1,000mm f.l.=8,000mm • Fully Computer Control

  4. Performance • Pointing~ 1’ RMS • Tracking (no guiding)~300sec • Limiting Mag. ~19 , Merr=0.1 (R-band, exptime=60sec)

  5. NGC1278 field(AP8 ccd, R-band, exp300s )

  6. Limiting Magnitude of Field SA92 by Dr. Alfred Chen (AP8 ccd, R-band, exp60s )

  7. Instrumentation • CCD: AP-8/FLI IMG1024S (f.o.v.~10.6’x10.6’, 0.62” x 0.62”/pixel) • Filters: B/V/R/H-alpha/R Continuum • After April 2003… • New CCD: Princeton Instruments 1300B (f.o.v.~11’x11’, 0.52” x 0.52”/pixel) • New Filter Wheel: B/V/R/I/H-alpha/OIII/SII/R Continuum …14 filters

  8. Test Observation • Total Observing time~ 300hrs（2002/9-11） • Asteroid light curve • Asteroid discovery: Lulin1 (2002WT18) • X-ray binary, Open cluster, Supernovae • Engineering Time: Seeing condition, Pointing Model, Tracking, Guiding…

  9. Lulin Site • Seeing ~1.39 ” ，best seeing<1.0” (1993) • Sky background： 21.22 mag/arcsec^2 (B-band)，20.72 mag/arcsec^2 (V-band) (1994)

  10. Time Allocation • TAC: 7 (NCUx5, NTHUx1, NCKUx1) • 4 TA/year: I(Jan.-Mar.), II(Apr.-Jun.), III(Jul.-Sep.), IV(Oct.-Dec.) • Observing Proposal Require (http://www.astro.ncu.edu.tw)

  11. 2003I TA • 1. X光新星中的Superhump現象與軌道週期之研究與高質量X-射線雙星的光學確認 • 2. Low-mass X-ray Binary monitoring program • 3.X-ray binaries和Cataclysmic variables的光度曲線分析 • 4. Photometric observations of Jovian Trojans • 5. The study of morphology in large size halos surrounding planetary nebulae • 6. Variability of Middle-Aged Open Clusters • 7. Photometric Monitoring of Galactic Open Clusters • 8. The Morphology and Environment of Seyfert Galaxies

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