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Despite of its closeness to Turku,
Tuorla Observatory is still a viable site for optical
observations. In particular the southern skies are still rather dark.
Thus there are good prospects of keeping Tuorla Observatory as the number
one optical observatory in Finland. Work is in progress to improve
the 70 cm Schmidt telescope
by adding to it a CCD camera, and also further improvements are planned for
the 1 m photometric telescope.
The latter has been the main instrument of the Observatory and has been
heavily used in the CCD photometry of quasars.
There are five telescopes
at Tuorla Observatory, but the most important observations are made
abroad, especially at the
Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT).
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