RoboTel
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The robotic reflecting telescope RoboTel.
Credit: AIPRoboTel is a smaller copy of the robotic telescope STELLA. Its main use is as a test-bed for in-house developed telescope hardware as the weather in Potsdam makes routine science operation difficult.
- Cassegrain system
- 80 cm main mirror
- total aperture ratio F/8.0
- field of view with corrector 30 arcmin
- mirror material Astro-Sitall
- rotatable teriary mirror serves both Nasmyth foci
- positioning speed 10°/s
- installed in the Schwarzschild building at the AIP
Documentation in German: RoboTel – Das Schüler- und Forschungsteleskop (pdf)
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Installing RoboTel.
Credit: AIP/K.G.Strassmeier![robotel_fork_xl.jpg](/media/images/robotel_fork_xl.2e16d0ba.fill-300x300.jpg)
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The dome of RoboTel.
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Ray path at the RoboTel telescope.
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Image of the Triangulum Galaxy M33 with RoboTel, RGB composite.
Credit: AIP, RoboTelRoboTel was sponsired by the European Union, European Fund for regional development.
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Involved AIP sections and groups:
Telescope Control and Robotics, Technical Section, Stellar Activity