The Farid & Moussa Raphael Observatory

Frontiers in Theoretical and Applied Physics/UAE 2017

Hajjar, R.^1

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Notre Dame University-Louaize, PoBox 72 Zouk Mikael, Lebanon^1

关键词: Back-illuminated CCD;    Echelle spectrograph;    Graduate students;    International community;    Remote observation;    Student project;    Summer school;    Urbanized area;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/869/1/012084/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/869/1/012084

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The Farid & Moussa Raphael Observatory (FMRO) at Notre Dame University Louaize (NDU) is a teaching, research, and outreach facility located at the main campus of the university. It located very close to the Lebanese coast, in an urbanized area. It features a 60-cm Planewave CDK telescope, and instruments that allow for photometric and spetroscopic studies. The observatory currently has one thinned, back-illuminated CCD camera, used as the main imager along with Johnson-Cousin and Sloan photometric filters. It also features two spectrographs, one of which is a fiber fed echelle spectrograph. These are used with a dedicated CCD. The observatory has served for student projects, and summer schools for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. It is also made available for use by the regional and international community. The control system is currently being configured for remote observations. A number of long-term research projects are also being launched at the observatory.