The Commissioning of Northern Arizona University’s Barry Lutz Telescope Student Arron Shiffer Mentor S.C. Tegler.

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The Commissioning of Northern Arizona University’s Barry Lutz Telescope Student Arron Shiffer Mentor S.C. Tegler

RC Optical Telescope and Mount Mirror Diam: 20-in Construction: Carbon-Fiber Open Truss Mount: German Equatorial Weight: 160 lbs Cost: $54,300

Imaging System Apogee Science Camera Instrument Rotator Off-Axis Guider SBIG CCD Guide Camera Filter Wheel (U,B,V,R,I Filters)

Autoguiding Five minutes unguided Five minutes guided Moving target Mount Tracking Take pictures Make mount adjustments

Control Room

Software The Sky & Motion controls Camera control CCD Soft SBIG Guide Camera Controls

Autoguiding Makes Long Exposures Possible and Makes it Possible to “Go Deep” Exp Time = 35 min Seven 5-minute exposures Galaxy R = 12.94 Galaxy Lutz (7230) R = 17.52 R = 18.53 R = 19.58 R = 16.55 Observers: Tegler, Shiffer, Jones, Ward-Duong, Trilling

Autoguiding and Pretty Pictures Six 5-minute exposures 2 Blue 2 Green 2 Red Any Questions? Horsehead Nebula in Orion