by planewaveinstr | Apr 5, 2013 | Observatories, Press Releases
Montgomery Bell Academy’s Long Mountain Observatory near McMinnville, TN was completed in 2011. The observatory is equipped with a PlaneWave CDK 24 telescope and integrated rotating focuser on a PlaneWave Ascension 200HR mount. The telescope is equipped with an...
by planewaveinstr | Feb 1, 2013 | Observatories, Press Releases
CDK700 in Queensland, Australia The CDK700 is a 27-inch, state-of-the-art, corrected Dall Kirkham telescope. On a Nasmyth mounting with precision encoders, it can point anywhere in the sky within a few seconds, to a precision of a few seconds of arc. The telescope has...
by planewaveinstr | Jan 28, 2013 | Observatories, Press Releases
PlaneWave Instruments 24-inch CDK Faraway galaxies, stars and planets come to life through the view of a new 24-inch research telescope atop Georgia College’s Herty Hall. As powerful as many telescopes along the East Coast, the 300-pound telescope can zoom to planets...
by planewaveinstr | Jan 28, 2013 | Observatories, Press Releases
PlaneWave Instruments 17-inch CDK Twin 46-foot high domes house two telescopes in the Pauline and George Murillo Observatory which opened in November of 2011. The university hopes to partner with Inland Empire schools so that students will be able to view the sun,...
by planewaveinstr | Jan 23, 2013 | Observatories, Press Releases
PlaneWave Instruments 24-inch CDK “Real-time digital images from the telescope can be streamed down to an astronomy classroom on the third level for comfortable viewing”. The observatory crowning Wheaton College’s new science center houses a state-of-the-art PlaneWave...
