Current Status of Lulin Observatory Hung-Chin Lin Taiwan
Lulin Observatory Taiwan
Artificial Night Sky Brightness (Cinzano et al., ’01)
CKS Airport IANCU Lulin Obs. 2,862 m >4,000 m
Day
Night Night Sky background (2004) U=21.66 mag/arcsec 2 B=21.85 mag/arcsec 2 V=21.09 mag/arcsec 2 R=20.71 mag/arcsec 2 I =19.18 mag/arcsec 2
Total= hours Lulin Obs. Time Statistic Lulin Obs. Time Statistic ( ~ ) hour
Seeing Statistic
Development Site Survey Site Survey Station SLT Observatory TAOS Telescopes LOT TelescopeBird’s Eye View ...
0.6km
Lulin observatory LELIS SLT LOT NCKU ELF TAOS B TAOS A TAOS C TAOS D ARS
Cassegrain optics D =1,000mm f.l.=8,000mm Fork type equatorial mount Fully Computer Control Lulin One-meter Telescope (LOT)
PI 1300B CCD Filter Wheel Autoguider (ST-8) Autoguider (ST-8) Instrumenation
LOT Time Allocation Observing programs
Red circles: optical telescopes Green circles: radio/mm telescopes Black crosses: VLBA antennas WEBT (WHOLE EARTH BLAZAR TELESCOPE) S , November , 2003 Simultaneous Multiwavelength and INTEGRAL observations of S Lulin ObservatoryLulin Observatory - Lulin, Taiwan heidelberg.de/users/l ostorer/0716/0716- nov2003.html
Lulin
We found the GRB candidate near S1 XMM-NEWTON ~ R.A.=8h 2m 30.3s ; Dec.= -39deg 51' 2.4" Lulin Observatory ~ R.A.=8h 2m 30.1s ; Dec.= -39deg 51' 3.3" Image taken by C.H. Hsia & H.C. Lin
SNe Search and follow-up SNe Search and follow-up
SUPERNOVA 2004cy IN ESO 403-G9 Before After Circular No Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION SUPERNOVA 2004cy IN ESO 403-G9 Y. Chen, Z. Lin, K. Huang, H. Lin, and W. Ip, Institute of Astronomy, National Central University, Tawain; and Y. Qiu and J. Hu, National Astronomical Observatories of China, report the discovery of an apparent supernova (mag about 15.6) on unfiltered CCD images taken on Apr UT with the 1-m Lulin Observatory telescope. SN 2004cy is located at R.A. = 21h34m25s.67, Decl. = -33o23'13".7 (equinox ), which is 25".7 west and 6".1 south of the center of ESO 403-G9. Approximate unfiltered magnitudes for the new object: 2003 Oct. 31, [19.0; 2004 Apr , 17.5; May 27.77, 17.8; 28.77, 17.9; June 9.80, 18.2; 25.77, 18.2; 26.77, 18.4; 27.74, First SUPERNOVA in Taiwan!!!
TAOS Taiwan-America Occultation Survey Taiwan-America Occultation Survey Four 50cm robotic telescope Four 50cm robotic telescope ASIAA/LLNL/NCU/UoP/Yonsei ASIAA/LLNL/NCU/UoP/Yonsei
LELIS Lulin Emission Line Imaging Survey
NCKU Red Spite Project
TEN - Taiwan Earthshine Network NTHU
Environmental Monitoring
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