OAC - Astronomical Observatory of Capannori

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Telescopes List

The 0.60-m f/9.83 Cassegrain reflector in its dome.

Technical data of the 0.60-m f/9.83 telescope:

Optics figuring: Zen firm
Primary mirror aperture: 600 mm, f/3.5 primary focus (not used), f/9.83 Cassegrain focus
Primary mirror material: Schott Suprax
Secondary mirror (owned by IRF) diameter: 203 mm
Secondary mirror material: Corning Pyrex 7741
Telescope focal length at Cassegrain focus: 5900 mm
Tubus: made of a sheet of carbon fiber wounded up around a plastic compound
Fork mounting: Mathis Instruments MI 750/1000 F
Telescope control system: Astro-Physics GTO CP3
Electrical focuser: JMI XTc extreme 3" + RoboFocus
Finder scope/wide field astrograph (owned by IRF): Takahashi SKY 90 fluorite apochromat doublet refractor
Small finder scope (owned by IRF): 8x30 mm
Eyepiece: TeleVue 55mm Ploss 2" (owned by IRF)
Small "Red dot" finder scope (owned by IRF)


The 60 cm reflector in its dome as seen from North-East	The 60 cm reflector in its dome as seen from its Northern side

The 60 cm reflector in its dome as seen from its Southern side	Another view of the Southern side of the 60 cm reflector in its dome

Another view of the Northern side of the 60 cm reflector in its dome	A view of the 60 cm reflector in its dome seen from North-West

The building of the OAC hosts various different telescopes:

a 0.60-m f/9.83 Cassegrain reflector telescope with equatorial fork mount
a 0.30-m f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with equatorial fork mount
a 0.20-m f/10 portable Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
0.09-m f/5 .6 to f/4.5 Takahashi Sky90 apochromat fluorite doublet refractor
a 0.04-m f/10 refractor Coronado personal solar telescope with an H-alpha interference filter

The following table shows the different kind of usage of the above mentioned telescopes:

Telescope (and status)	Avalilable Auxiliary Equipment (for more details see the section "Opto-electronic instrumentation")	Main usage
0.60-m f/9.83 Cassegrain reflector (refurbished, operational)	IRF's optical photoelectric photometer OAC's optical photoelectric photometer infrared photoelectric photometer CCD stellar spectrograph (owned by IRF) CCD nebular spectrograph CCD camera with UBVRI filters another CCD camera with UBVRI and u'g'r'i'z' filters (owned by IRF) adaptive optics Eyepiece Televue Plössl 55mm, 2" (owned by IRF) 0.20-m secondary mirror (owned by IRF)	mainly research (also public outreach) (also education)
0.30-m f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain (refurbished, not operational)	IRF's optical photoelectric photometer OAC's optical photoelectric photometer infrared photoelectric photometer CCD stellar spectrograph CCD nebular spectrograph CCD camera with UBVRI filters another CCD camera with UBVRI and u'g'r'i'z' filters adaptive optics	mainly research (also public outreach) (also education)
0.20-m f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain (refurbished, operational)	none	public outreach education
0.09-m f/5 .6 to f/4.5 Takahashi Sky90 apochromat fluorite refractor, owned by IRF (operational)	none	mainly research
0.04-m f/10 refractor Coronado (operational)	none	public outreach education

The OAC's Director M.M.M. Santangelo shows the auxiliary equipment (attached to the 0.30-m f/10 telescope) to Prof. C. Bartolini from Bologna University and Loiano Astromical Observatory

The 0.30-m f/10 telescope in its dome as seen from south-east

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