
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)
