Veli-Pekka Hentunen
AXA Observer HVP
Veli-Pekka Hentunen and the 14-inch Celestron on a Paramount ME at the
Taurus Hill Observatory.
Controlling the 1.0 m Dall-Kirkham telescope
of the Tuorla Observatory in Turku. The Taurus Hill Observatory does co-operation
with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University
of Turku.
Veli-Pekka is a physics teacher at the high school in Varkaus, where
he was born in 1963.
Observatory: Taurus Hill Observatory (MPC code = A95)
Mount: GEM (Paramount ME)
Camera: SBIG ST-8XME; AO-7 tip/tilt image stabilizer
Filters: UBVRI (Johnson-Cousins) + others
Observatory Type: Dome
Location:
Härkämäentie
88, 79480 Kangaslampi, Finland
Coordinates:
62° 18.896" N and 28°
23.357" E
Software: TheSky5 controls telescope. MaxIm DL controls CCD. AIP4WIN
processes images. Excel for final analysis & display.
My website:
english.taurushill.net
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This site opened: 2009.08.06. Last Update: 2009.08.06