TAM Dedication: Andreas G. Michalitsianos (a short Biography)
Milestones: Dome construction 1999, 0.6m AM telescope installation 2000.
TAM History: to be written
The sky above TAM right now: click here for sky map
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Optical architecture: Cassegrain (1 focus, F/10)
- Mounting: Robotic Equatorial
- Instrumentation:
- 9-position motorized filter wheel (UBVRI, open, monochromatic-1, monochromatic-2, continuum)
- Telrad guider telescope
- APOGEE Ap7b – SITE back-illuminated 512×512 pixel, 24 μm pitch, CCD-imager camera, (and a FINGERLAKES substitute/surrogator)
- RFK/Eudoxos modified TALON control software
- Dome: 6x3m rotation-off (all sky) rectangular shelter, double skin isolation, steel structure.
Andy Michalitsianos’ short biography
Projects: (to be updated soon)