Possibilities for Observational and Scientific
works in the Institute of Astronomy
- Astronomical divisions in the
Institute of Astronomy
- Sun
- Solar System
- Star Clusters
- Symbiotic stars
- Magnetic stars
- Unstable stars
- Galaxies - 6 permanently and 3 partially persons
- Cosmology and Large Scale Structures
- Individual Galaxies
- Nearby galaxies
# NAO "Rozhen"
- 50/70 cm Schmidt telescope - 16x16
sq.cm, 4x4 sq.deg.
- ST-6 CCD, BVRIHa filters, 375x242 sq.px ; 8.6 x 6.5 sqr.mm
GAIN = 6.7 RON = 30 (4.6 ADUs)
- new ST-8 CCD camera with higher B_sensibility; 1530x1020 sq.px,
- 60 cm Cassegren telescope - UBV-photometer
- 2m RCC - 30x30 sq.cm, UBVRI
filters, 1x1 sq.deg.
- Photometrics CE200 CCD_camera, 1024 x 1024 sqr.px. 24x24sqr.mkm,
25x25 sqr.mm
Chip: SI003AB
Regimes: 1--> Gain = 4.93 RON = 5.1 (1.05 ADUs)
4 --> Gain = 1.21 RON = 3.3 (2.73 ADUs)
Field of View: 5 x 5 sqr.arcmin; Binning: x1; x2 (0.31"/px;
0.62"/px)
# AO - Belogradchik
60 cm Cassegren telescope
- UBV photometer
- ST-8 CCD, BVRIHa filters, 1530x1020 sq.px, 9x9 sq.mkm; 13.8x9.2 sq.mm
GAIN = 2.3 RON = 15 (6.4 ADUs)
Field of View: 6.3 x 4 sqr.arcmin; Binning: x1, x2, x3 (0.26"/px,
0.52"/px, 0.78"/px)
Filters: B 2mmGG385+1mmBG12; V 1mmGG495+2mmBG38; R
1mmOG570+2mmBG38; I 3mmRG9
40 cm Celestron telescope with "STAR-1" CCD, ? , 512x376
sq.px,
Hardware and software
- NAO _Rojhen_
PDP 11/34 + RSX 11M and UNIX
DECstation 5000/25 with
DAT/DDS2 8 Gbts, CD-ROM, 1.44 Mbt floppy
X-WINDOWS + Motif
MIDAS nov95
Xview, GhostScript, SuperMongo, mtools ...
TeX, LaTex
Fortran 77, C and GCC
HPLJ II + postscript
ca. 20 PC - mostly Pentium + DOS 6.2/7.10 + WINDOWS'98/XP + Linux
- in Sofia
HP workstation
ca. 25 PC mainly AT 686 (Pentium) with
DOS 6.2/7.10 + WINDOWS98/XP + LINUX
Turbo Pascal, Fortran, Turbo C and C++
MSWord, MSExcell, PageMaker, CorelDraw,
PCTeX, EmTex, LaTex
Grapher, Surfer, StatGraph, TableCurve, Mathematica,
MatCad, MatLab, ACAD...
AstroUti, AstroLab, SkyView, SkyPro, IPS, CCDOPS,
ST6KV, REWIA, SpectrumCalc ...
MIDAS'95 '96 '98 '99, '02, '04; IRAF; IDL
5.2, 5.3 - full license, 5.4 - evaluation license
File Survers of the Institute of Astronomy:
Two processor Pentium-3 600 MHz, 512 MBts RAM, 2x30 GBts HD, CDRW
"Samsung", OS - Linux - Slackware 10.0.
Two processor Pentium-3 600 MHz, 512 MBts RAM, 40 + 120 GBts HD, CDRW
"Samsung", OS - Linux - Slackware 10.0.
Last updated: 05.06.2001 All additions and comments are
welcomed
