CHI-2 is an ASA 500N, a 50-cm F3.8 corrected Newtonian telescope, situated in the Rio Hurtado valley, Chile. It is an identical setup to CHI-4. It is equipped with a set of Astrodon astrophotography filters and thanks to its wide field of view it's an ideal instrument astrophotography of deep-sky objects. 

Services Available

• One-Click Observations: Yes
• Observation Bundles: Yes
• Advanced Requests: No

Telescope Specification

• Aperture: 500 mm (19.6 inches)
• Focal Length: 1900 mm
• F-ratio: 3.8
• Mount: ASA DDM85 equatorial mount with direct drives
• Minimum elevation: 30 degrees

Camera Specification

• Model: FLI PL 16803 (spec sheet)
• Pixel Size: 9 μm
• Pixel Array: 4096 x 4096
• Pixel Resolution: 0.98 arcsec/pixel
• Cooling: -25 degrees in Summer, -30 in Winter
• Field of View: 65 x 65 arcmin
• Filters(50mm square): Astrodon LRGB 2GEN, Ha (3nm), SII (3nm), OIII (3nm)
• Position angle: 270 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: 1.3'' - 1.8''
• MPC code: X02