Upgradation of MOT and its relevance to WET campaigns |
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| Authors: | Alisher S Hojaev |
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| Institution: | (1) Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute, Center for Space Research, Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
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| Abstract: | The Maidanak One-meter Telescope (MOT) is a Ritchey-Chretien telescope by Carl Zeiss, located atop Maidanak in Uzbekistan,
where site parameters indicate excellent atmospheric seeing conditions. An effort to computerize the MOT, jointly made by
an Uzbek, Taiwanese and Baltic consortium, is expected to complete in 2005. Monitoring the variability of star clusters will
be among the first scientific projects to be carried out. Equipped with sensitive CCD cameras, the MOT, with its middle-Asia
geographic location, will be a desirable addition to the Whole Earth Telescope (WET) network. We describe the upgrade engineering
and instrumentation of the telescope and how the system can be used in future campaigns. |
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| Keywords: | Telescopes method: observational stars: oscillation |
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