CHI-1 is a Planewave CDK24, a 61-cm telescope with Corrected Dall Kirkham optical design, situated in the Rio Hurtado Valley, Chile. It is equipped with a set of Astrodon astrophotography filters as well as Sloan photometry filters and it's, therefore, an excellent choice for both scientific applications and astrophotography of deep-sky objects.
Pricing for Advanced Requests
- 120 credits per hour of utilisation
Telescope Specification
- Model: Planewave CDK24
- Aperture: 610 mm (24 inches)
- Focal Length: 3962 mm
- F-ratio: 6.5
- Mount: Mathis MI-1000/1250 with absolute encoders
- Minimum elevation: 30 degrees
CMOS Camera Specification (CHI-1-CMOS, installed in January 2023)
- Model: QHY 600M Pro
- Pixel Size: 3.76s μm
- Pixel Array: 9576 x 6382 pixels
- Pixel Resolution: 0.39 arcsec/pixel in BIN2
- Cooling: -10 degrees in summer, -15 degrees in winter
- Field of View: 31 x 20.7 arcmin
- Filters: Astrodon Luminance, Red, Green, Blue, Halpha, SII, OIII, Sloan r, Sloan g,
- Position angle: Up is 4.6 degrees E of N
- Allowed exposure times (in seconds): 30,60,120,180,240,300
- Available binning: 2 (read more about binning)
CCD Camera Specification (CHI-1-CCD, discontinued in January 2023)
- Model: FLI PL 9000 (spec sheet)
- Pixel Size: 12 μm
- Pixel Array: 3056 x 3056
- Pixel Resolution: 0.62 arcsec/pixel
- Cooling: -25 degrees in Summer, -30 degrees in Winter
- Field of View: 31.8 x 31.8 arcminFilters: Astrodon Luminance, Red, Green, Blue, Halpha, SII, OIII, Sloan r, Sloan g, Sloan i
- Position angle: 359.36 degrees
Observatory
- Observatory name: El Sauce Observatory
- Location: Río Hurtado, Coquimbo Region, Chile
- Coordinates: 30.472529° S, 70.762999° W (Google maps)
- Elevation: 1525 m
- Average seeing: 1'' - 1.5''
- MPC code: X02