Instrumentation of the Specola Solare Ticinese

       
 

The instrumentation at the Specola is composed by:

  A Zeiss refractor (150 mm opening) in an hemispheric dome (used for the sunspot drawings)
 

  A coelostat (200 mm) and a refractor (140 mm) followed by an optical bench with spectrographs and monochromatic filters.
 


 

For night observations the following instrument is also available:
 

  A Maksutov-Cassegrain refractor D=300 mm F=4800 mm with a teleobjective Prakticar-Pentacon (500 mm F/5.6) and a CCD camera.


 
 

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