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MonteBoo Observatory

MonteBoo is the astronomical observatory of the Masaryk University in Brno.

History MonteBoo observatory was founded by staff of the Astronomical Institute of the Masaryk University on the small mount near Brno centre at 1948...
Equipment The main telescope is 62 cm (24 inches, focus 2.78 m, 1:4.5) reflector with CCD camera in Newton's focus on the parallactic mount. The mirror made by ing. V. Gajdu\v{e}k. The pointer and 15 cm (6 inches, focus 2.5 m, 1:15) reflector are designed to same mount as main telescope...
Mount The mount is parallactic... it is derived from mount of the Liden observatory...
Camera We uses Dual CCD camera ST-8 by Santa Barbara Instruments Group with KAF-1600 chip. The specific characteristic of this element is file of view 17.0'x11.3', approx. 0.68" per pixel...
Software NightView Czech howto
Image gallery Dome, Deep Sky
Scientific Output Monteboo observation list, results, notices...

IAU Station 616
longitude = 16o 35' 0.5228'' (east)
latitude = 49o 12' 15.8906'' (north)
altitude = 306 m