Telescopes


The main telescopes at Kingsland Observatory, now known as Observatorio Kingsland in Spain have the following robotic telescopes as of 2019. Some of the observatory buildings are inspired by the ESO Paranal VLTs in Chile. The advantages over a dome design for our applications is that it provides a much large interior, a wider slit opening using a double slit, lot more space for additional research equipment and lastly, a huge significant cost reduction from conventional observatory domes.

0.4m (16 inch) SCT at F/7 on Paramount GT1100S mount using CCD KAF 16803, FOV 40’X 40’, within a special half cylinder observatory.


0.4m (16 inch) Scopecraft at F/3.5 using CCD KAF 16803, FOV 90’ X 90’


During 2019 other installations are to follow:



0.6m (24 inch) Cassegrain at F/18, fork equatorial mount using a CCD Si003 sensor. Photo of 0.6m (24 inch) Cassegrain telescope


0.6m (24 inch) Ritchey Chretien at F/8, German equatorial mount using CCD Si003 sensor. FOV is 86 arc mins.The RC telescope will be housed in new VLT type observatory building.


During 2019 and 2020 the following telescopes will be installed.



0.9m (36 inch) Direct Imager at F/4 on Alt Az direct drive mount using CCD Si003 sensor.


0.8m (32 inch) Astrograph at F/5 on Alt Az direct drive mount using CCD Si003 sensor.


1.3m (50 inch) direct imager at F/4 on Alt Az mount using EMCCD sensor.