Exploration of the solar system with the Two-Channel Focal Reducer at the 2m-RCC telescope of Pik Terskol Observatory
Abstract
In 1996 the Two-Channel Focal Reducer of the Max-Planck-Institute for Aeronomy has been brought to Pik Terskol Observatory for use at the 2m-Zeiss-RCC telescope. We describe the instrument and its possibilities. Up to now it has been used for the following solar system projects: astrometry and photometry of the inner satellites of Jupiter, imaging the Io torus with a tunable Fabry-Perot interferometer, photometry and polarimetry of asteroids, imaging photometry and polarimetry of cometary dust and imaging photometry of ions and neutral molecules in comets. These projects are briefly described.
- Publication:
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Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel Supplement
- Pub Date:
- September 2000
- Bibcode:
- 2000KFNTS...3...13J