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The Carl Sagan Observatory: A Telescope for Everyone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J. Saucedo-Morales ,
A. Sánchez-Ibarra  and
D. Lunt
J. Saucedo-Morales
Affiliation:
Area de Astronomía, DIFUS, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, México
A. Sánchez-Ibarra
Affiliation:
Area de Astronomía, DIFUS, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, México
D. Lunt
Affiliation:
Coronado Instruments Group

Abstract

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The Carl Sagan Observatory is a new project for a remote observatory that will be built at the summit of Cerro Azul (a 2480 m mountain located near Magdalena. Sonora, México). It will include one 55 cm and four 14 cm telescopes. The 55 cm telescope will be dedicated to supernovae research. One of the 14 cm Maksutov telescopes will be used as an autoguider for the stellar observations. The other 14 cm telescopes will feature different narrow band filters that will be used for solar research. The observatory will be controlled from the campus of the Universidad de Sonora in Hermosillo, Sonora, México (~ 200 km from the site). A prototype of the observatory building has been built on campus and first light is expected by the end of May of 2001. We expect to have an operating mountain observatory by the end of 2002. Some of the unique technical aspects of this observatory, which we believe can be a model for future small telescope observatories are discussed in this work.

Type
VII. Science With Small Telescopes
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 183: Small-Telescope Astronomy on Global Scales , 2001 , pp. 295 - 298
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001

References

Sánchez-Ibarra, A. & Saucedo-Morales, J. 2001, in ASP Conf. Ser. Vol. 225 eds. Robert, J. Brunner George Djorgovski, S., and Szalay, Alex S., in PressGoogle Scholar