TÜBİTAK National Observatory

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Code A84 Website www.tug.tubitak.gov.tr		Altitude 2,450 m (8,040 ft) RTT150 Cassegrain

Organization Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Location Bakırtepe, Antalya, Turkey

TÜBİTAK National Observatory (Turkish: TÜBİTAK Ulusal Gozlemevi, TUG) is a ground-based astronomical observatory operated by the TUG Institute of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). Established in 1991, it is located at an altitude of 2,450 m (8,040 ft) in Bakırtepe, around 50 km (31 mi) west-southwest of Antalya in southern Turkey.

There are five telescopes installed in Bakırtepe:

RTT150 - Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope (formerly AZT-22) (2001)

T100 (ACE RC1.0) - 1.0 m Ritchey–Chrétien telescope (2009)

T60 (OMI RC06) - 0.6 m Ritchey–Chrétien telescope (2008)

YT40 (Meade LX200GPS) - 0.4 m Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope (2006)

ROTSEIIID Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment

References

TÜBİTAK National Observatory Wikipedia

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