iTelescope - T14 - Wide Field - Utah


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Location Information


Observatory: Utah Desert Remote Observatory at Great Basin Desert, Beryl Junction, Utah, USA
MPC: U94 

Telescope:  0.10-m f/5.0 astrograph + CCD

Timezone:  UTC Minus 7:00. Daylight savings time is observed

Minimum Target Elevation: 15º all azimuths. 

 

N 37° 44’ 16"    Decimal: 37.7378 North

W 113° 41’ 51"  Decimal: -113.6975 West

Elevation: 1,570 meters / 5150 ft


Operational Notes


Very Wide Field Telescope. Typically used for Wide Field RGB / Narrowband Imaging, but also carries a Photometric V filter. FITS and TIF file formats. Dark Frame calibration data is available for  900  second exposures. (All calibrated data uses scaled darks). Binx1 - Binx2. Recommended Maximum Exposure 600 seconds.  Raw data can be found at data.itelescope.net.


  • T14 is a great platform for wide angle imaging and can also do valuable science with its photometric V filter. This little Takahashi FSQ gets a lot of use from science users scanning for asteroids and working on variable stars, and nothing can match its very wide field portraits and its performance on the sky's larger extended objects such as large nebula, clusters, bright comets and even catching fast moving Near Earth Objects.
  • Please be aware that it is common for some CCD chips to display column defects. Follow this link for more information.

  • IMPORTANT NOTES: T14 is unguided. Please limit sub-exposure times to 600 seconds or less for best results. We recommend using the 'Dithering' imaging option on T20 to remove any column defects during your post processing.


Instrument Package


CCD: SBIG STL-11000M

QE: 50% Peak

Full Well:  ~50,000e-  Anti Blooming Gate (ABG)

Dark Current:   0.5 e-/pixel/sec. @ 0º C

A/D Gain:  2.2e-/ADU

Pixel Size:  9um Square

Resolution:  3.5 arc-secs/pixel

Sensor:  Frontlit 

Cooling:  Set to -15ºC default 

Array:  4008 by 2672 (10.7 Mega pixels) 

FOV:      155.8 x 233.7 arc-mins

Filters:  LRGB, Ha, SII, OIII and V

Position Angle: 090º


Telescope Optics


OTA: Takahashi FSQ Fluorite 

Optical Design: Petzval Apochromat Astrograph 

Aperture: 106mm (0.1 metre) 

Focal Length: 530mm (.53 metre) 

F/Ratio: f5.0 

Guiding: Disabled. 600 seconds maximum exposure

Mount: Paramount ME