Current status: Used in photometric monitoring of BlLac objects. Mirrors realuminizated in 2001
Mounting of telescope: equatorial fork
Main mirror: elliptical, 1.00 m
Secondary mirror: spherical, 0.31 m
Tube: serrurier truss
Equivalent focal length of system: 8.45 m
Effective aperture ratio of system: f/8.45
Field of View: 9.9' x 9.9'
CCD camera body: SBIG ST-8 with water cooling option
Chip: KAF-1001e
Pixel size: 24 10^-6 m x 24 10^-6 m
Quantum efficiency: 72% (in 575 nm)
Dark current: 9 e/pix/s at 0 Celsius
Readout noise: 14.8 e
Gain: 2 e / ADU
Filter: V-band
Telescope control system: PC
Mounting : incremental encoders, pinion drive, stepper motors
(one for each axis)
Average sky background brightness in tuorla: 17 mag / square
arcsecond in V band
Estimated brightness limit (3 sigma detection): 20 mag in V band
ST-8
Last modification: 2004
VRML model of the telescope
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