
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: RC Ritchey-Chrétien
- Focal ratio: f6.76
- Focus: Cassegrain
- Central obstruction: 35%
- Back focus: 301mm
- Field of view: 150mm
