Featured Telescope
This is our primary science telescope — one of several instruments in the MSRO observatory network.
This featured instrument is a 10" f/8 TPO carbon-fiber truss-tube Ritchey–Chrétien telescope. It is equipped with a QHY 294M Pro monochrome camera and a 7-position 1.25" QHY Gen 3 filter wheel with photometric UBVRI filters. It also supports a Star Analyzer 200 spectral grating, enabling low-resolution spectroscopy of stars down to approximately 14th magnitude. The system provides a 33 × 22 arc-min field of view.
Imaging performance
• In 11.7 MP mode, the plate scale is 0.48"/pixel.
• In 48 MP mode, the plate scale is 0.24"/pixel, supporting high-resolution lunar imaging.
Mount and tracking
The telescope is mounted on a Losmandy G-11 / PMC-Eight mount with a high-precision RA encoder (Telescope Drive Master), allowing unguided exposures of 60–120 seconds.
A few recent highlights captured with MSRO equipment.
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