Equipment Used at SRO:

Members have complete access to all facilities and instruments to which they have been qualified to use safely.

    • 0.76-m (30-inch) f/6 Newtonian reflector

    • 15-cm (6-inch) f/15 Refractor - Guide Scope

    • 0.3-m (12-inch) f/11 Classical Cassegrain --->

    • Apogee AP8p back-illuminated CCD camera, 1024x1024, 24 pixels, 1.09 arc-second/pixel, 18.6 arc-minute field of view.

    • SBIG STV CCD camera system used for auto-guiding and lunar/planetary imaging.

    • SBIG ST-4 and ST-6 CCD Cameras

    • Optec IFW filter system w/ BVRI photometric filters.

    • All Computer Systems on 100Mb/sec LAN

    • Various video-eyepiece camera systems.

    • 3.5-inch gold-plated reflection grating, +900 groves/mm - can be used to construct a decent high resolution spectrograph for the 30-inch. Good future project for the right person(s).

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