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- Title
A NEW 50 cm TELESCOPE FOR THE RUSSIAN-CUBAN OPTICAL TELESCOPE NETWORK.
- Authors
IBRAHIMOV, M. A.; RODRÍGUEZ, M. R.; BÁRCENAS-FONSECA, Z. B.; NALIVKIN, M. A.; NAROENKOV, S. A.; SHUGAROV, A. S.; ALONSO-DIAZ, A.; PONCE-RODRÍGUEZ, O.; GONZÁLEZ-VEITÍA, F.
- Abstract
Since 2017, the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) and the Institute of Geophysics and Astronomy (Cuba) have been implementing a joint international project with the aim of building a distributed global optical telescope network. The first 20 cm robotic telescope of this network has been operated since 2021 in Havana. The construction of the second 50 cm telescope has been underway since 2023 and it is expected to be finished and installed in 2025 near Kislovodsk (Russia). According to the current plan, a third 1 m telescope will be installed in 2030 at Valle de Picadura (Cuba). In the present contribution, the main parameters and scientific equipment of the 50 cm telescope are described and its role in the Russian-Cuban distributed global telescope network is discussed.
- Subjects
RUSSIA; CUBA; OPTICAL telescopes; RUSSIAN Academy of Sciences; ASTRONOMICAL research; ASTRONOMICAL observations; OPTICAL instruments
- Publication
Revista Cubana de Física, 2023, Vol 40, Issue 2, p104
- ISSN
0253-9268
- Publication type
Article