University of Heidelberg

70 cm telescope

Cassegrain telescope with a 70 cm primary mirror. Focal length 560 cm (f:8). Built 1988 in the workshop of the LSW. Frame mount. Used for the monitoring of variable objects (e.g. quasars, BL-Lac-Objects) with a CCD camera (field of view 8' x 5'.3)

LSW 50cm 8inch 70cm Schmidt Bruce Zeiss BlueSky Ost Nothing

A photograph of the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl. Click on the picture for more information. A clickable map of the all whole institute area is also available

Gerhard Klare, Gabriella Ramge, Otmar Stahl
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