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History
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MonteBoo observatory was founded by staff of the Astronomical Institute
of the Masaryk University on the small mount near Brno centre at 1948...
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Equipment
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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...
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Mount
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The mount is parallactic... it is derived from mount of the
Liden observatory...
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Camera
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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...
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Software
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NightView
Czech howto
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Image gallery
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Dome,
Deep Sky
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Scientific Output
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Monteboo observation list, results, notices...
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![[Air view image]](foto/monteboo01a.jpg)