Kiso Observatory

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The Kiso Observatory (Japanese木 曽 観 测 所, Kiso kansokujo ) is a Japanese Kiso Observatory in the mountains Ontake. The observatory was founded in 1974 and is led by the Institute of Astronomy, Faculty of Science of the University of Tokyo.

The largest instrument of the observatory is a Schmidt telescope with a 105 cm aperture. This telescope is constructed in the 1970s designed photographic plates having a dimension of 36 × 36 cm ², and records this on a field of view of 6 ° x 6 °. Was converted to 1987, a CCD image sensor. The early 1990s has been studied with a CCD array equipment. Later, a large-format, matching the curvature of the image field formed CCD chip was used; in this configuration, the telescope at a high UV sensitivity. In collaboration with Canon, the telescope has been upgraded in 2011 with a wafer -scale CMOS sensor, which has an edge length of 205 mm. With this sensor, the telescope captures an image field of 3.6 ° × 3.6 ° and is particularly suitable for the study of faint meteors.

The Schmidt telescope can be operated as a Cassegrain telescope.

The second telescope, through which the Observatory has, is a Dall - Kirkham - type with an aperture diameter of 30 cm. It is called K.3T.