SPA-2 is an Officina Stellare 70cm (27.5 inches) F8 with RC design reflector telescope, situated in Oria, Spain. It is equipped with a set of Astrodon astrophotography and Sloan narrowband filters, and it is, therefore, an excellent choice for astrophotography of deep-sky objects and for scientific applications such as photometry.
Pricing
- 130 credits per hour of utilisation
Telescope Specification
- Model: Officina Stellare 700 RC
- Aperture: 700 mm
- Focal Length: 5600 mm
- F-ratio: 8.0
- Mount: Officina Stellare equatorial fork mount with absolute encoders and direct drives
- Minimum elevation: 30 degrees
CMOS Camera Specification (SPA-2-CMOS, installed in January 2023)
- Model: QHY 600M Pro
- Pixel Size: 3.76s μm
- Pixel Array: 9576 x 6382 pixels
- Native Pixel Resolution: 0.14 arcsec/pixel
- Cooling: -10 degrees in summer, -15 degrees in winter
- Field of View: 22 x 14.6 arcmin
- Filters: Astrodon Luminance, Red, Green, Blue, Halpha, SII, OIII, Sloan r, Sloan g, Sloan i
- Position angle: Up is 179.0 degrees E of N
- Allowed exposure times (in seconds): 30, 60, 120
- Binning: 4 (read more about binning)
CCD Camera Specification (SPA-2-CCD, discontinued in January 2023)
- Model: FLI PL16803 (spec sheet)
- Pixel Size: 9 μm/px
- Pixel Array: 4096 x 4096
- Pixel Resolution: 0.33 arcsec/pixel (bin 1), 0.66 arcsec/pixel (bin 2)
- Cooling: -25 degrees
- Field of View: 22.5 x 22.5 arcmin
- Filters: Astrodon Luminance, Red, Green, Blue, Halpha, SII, OIII, Sloan r, Sloan g, Sloan i
- Position angle: up is 179.7 degrees E of N
Observatory
- Site: IC Astronomy
- Location: Oria, Almería, Spain
- Coordinates: 37.4988 N,-2.42178 W (Google maps)
- Elevation: 1250 m
- Average seeing: 1.5'' - 2.5''
- MPC code: Z08