Dark Sky Observatory 14-inch Telescope
Telescope
Instrumentation
Dome &Building
Control Room
14-inch's WebCam
The 14-inch telescope waa assembled by Adam Smith for his thesis project. It runs under the Skynet Internet control system with queue-scheduled observing and is automatically commanded to observe the optical afterglow of Gamma-ray bursts within seconds of notification.
This project was jointly funded by ASU, North Carolina Space Grant and the National Science Foundation's Major Research Intrumentation Program.
