U.S. Air Force Telescope
Colorado we are coming!
Telescope for U.S. Air Force!
Challenge
The telescope system will be used to:
- support cadet and faculty research projects
- connect the Falcon Telescope Network across the world
- study man-made, Earth-orbiting objects and deep-space natural phenomena such as planets orbiting other stars
Our Solution
THE ASA EQ1000, an 1 m equatorial telescope:
- Direct Drive motors
- All axis with absolute encoder
- Unguided blind tracking performance
- Derotator with encoder system
Products in use
ASA EQ1000 f6.76
1000mm Ritchey-Chrétien equatorial telescope f6.76 f2
- Optical design: Ritchey-Chrétien RC
- Linear central obstruction: 35%
- Focus position: Cassegrain
- Focal length: 6760mm
- Focal ratio system: f6.76
- Clear Aperture / Focal Ratio Primary Mirror: 1000mm / f2
- Image field: 150mm (1.27 degrees)
- Mirror material: Fused silica
- Surface quality: >94 strehl
- Microroughness: 1nm RMS / <0.7nm Ra
- Coating: Al+SiO2 >91%
- Back Focus from flange: 316.61mm
- Weight tube: 2100kg (4630 lbs)
Other References
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House of Nature, Austria
Assembled and put into operation within 6 hours at observatory in Salzburg!
OGS installed, Austria
The first full robotic ground station for multi-functional use such as optical communication (laser and quantum…
Big Space for AZ800, China
ASA Astrosysteme Austria delivered an observatory in Zhongshan, Guangdong, China the ASA AZ800 telescope!
Observatory Paranal, Chile
The Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) has achieved first light at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile.
ASA AZ800 at observatory, Austria
The Observatory Freiwald in Sandl, Austria get's a new ASA telescope.
