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
- 120 credits per hour of utilisation
Sample image
- NGC 7293, Halpha, 600 sec. Download.
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
Camera Specification
- 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 arcmin
- Filters(50mm square): Astrodon LRGB 2GEN, Ha (3nm), SII (3nm), OIII (3nm), Sloan r, Sloan g, Sloan i
- Position angle: 359.36 degrees
- Allowed exposure times (in seconds): 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, 180, 240, 300, 450, 600
- Available binning: 1 (read more about binning)
- Readout mode: 1 Mhz with RBI Flood
- Automated calibration: Yes, the images will be provided fully calibrated in FITS format
Guiding
- Active guiding: yes, enabled by default for exposures longer than 60 seconds.
- Off-Axis guider: Astrodon MonsterMOAG
- Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Ultrastar
Calibration frames
- New sets of calibration frames are acquired every week
- Flat field frames for each filter are acquired using an Aurora Flat Field panel
- Darks are acquired for each allowed exposure time
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: 1.3'' - 8''
- MPC code: X02