1. Graduate Institute of Astronomy National Central University
Current Status of Lulin Observatory and of the One-Meter Telescope: Operation and Management
H. C. Lin & M. H. Chang
Graduate Institute of Astronomy    National Central University

2. LOT Lulin One-meter Telescope (LOT) 2002/09 – Installation, Alignment
2002/10 ~12 – Test Observing
2003/01 – Time Allocation

3. LOT Cassegrain optics Fork type equatorial mount
D=1,000mm f.l.=8,000mm
Fully Computer Control

4. Performance Pointing~ 1’ RMS Tracking (no guiding)~300sec
Limiting Mag. ~19 , Merr=0.1 (R-band, exptime=60sec)

5. NGC1278 field (AP8 ccd, R-band, exp300s )

6. Limiting Magnitude of Field SA92 by Dr. Alfred Chen
(AP8 ccd, R-band, exp60s )

7. Instrumentation
CCD: AP-8/FLI IMG1024S (f.o.v.~10.6’x10.6’, 0.62” x 0.62”/pixel)
Filters: B/V/R/H-alpha/R Continuum
After April 2003…
New CCD: Princeton Instruments 1300B (f.o.v.~11’x11’, 0.52” x 0.52”/pixel)
New Filter Wheel: B/V/R/I/H-alpha/OIII/SII/R Continuum …14 filters

8. Test Observation Total Observing time~ 300hrs（2002/9-11）
Asteroid light curve
Asteroid discovery: Lulin1 (2002WT18)
X-ray binary, Open cluster, Supernovae
Engineering Time: Seeing condition, Pointing Model, Tracking, Guiding…

9. Lulin Site Seeing ~1.39 ” ，best seeing<1.0” (1993)
Sky background： mag/arcsec^2 (B-band)， mag/arcsec^2 (V-band) (1994)

10. Time Allocation TAC: 7 (NCUx5, NTHUx1, NCKUx1)
4 TA/year: I(Jan.-Mar.), II(Apr.-Jun.), III(Jul.-Sep.), IV(Oct.-Dec.)
Observing Proposal Require (

11. 2003I TA 1. X光新星中的Superhump現象與軌道週期之研究與高質量X-射線雙星的光學確認
2. Low-mass X-ray Binary monitoring program
3.X-ray binaries和Cataclysmic variables的光度曲線分析
4. Photometric observations of Jovian Trojans
5. The study of morphology in large size halos surrounding planetary nebulae
6. Variability of Middle-Aged Open Clusters
7. Photometric Monitoring of Galactic Open Clusters
8. The Morphology and Environment of Seyfert Galaxies