UBC Southern Observatory
The UBC Southern Observatory 0.35-meter telescope was made by the Halfmann company in Germany specifically for the site-testing campaign of the Thirty Meter Telescope. It was originally installed on Mauna Kea in 2006 and named T6. It was removed from Mauna Kea in 2008. After being in the TMT headquarters in Pasadena for several years, it was installed at CTIO in 2013 and belongs to the University of British Columbia, Canada.
UBC Southern Observatory
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Name(s)
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UBC Southern Observatory
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Status
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Operational
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Broad Science Goals
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- The UBC has been used for a variety of projects, many of which were conducted by undergraduate and graduate students at UBC. These include measurement of light curves of asteroids, observations of transiting exoplanets, QSOs, galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
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Site
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Cerro Tololo, Chile
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Location Coordinates
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30º 10’ 04.33"S
70º 48’ 19.36"W
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Altitude
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2205.9 meters (7237 feet)
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Enclosure
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Canvas dome
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Type
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Optical
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Optical Design
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Cassegrain
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Field of View
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0.6 x 0.6 degrees
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Diameter: Primary M1
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0.35 meter
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Material: Primary M1
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Mount
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Equatorial
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First Light Date
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2013
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Adaptive Optics
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None
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Images taken with the UBC Southern Observatory
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N/A
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Images of the UBC Southern Observatory
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Videos of the UBC Southern Observatory
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Press Releases with the UBC Southern Observatory
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