Equipment of the Taurus Hill Observatory

Telescopes

- 12" Meade LX200GPS (UHTC), 3048/305, f/10

• Paramount ME Robotic Telescope Mount

- 5" Meade LXD55 EMC, 1143/127, f/9

Other telescopes and binoculars in use of Taurus Hill Observatory:

- JS-Dobson, 1000/205, f/5
- Helios Skyliner, 1000/200, f/5
- TAL-1, 805/110, f/7.3
- Baader Planetarium 15x80 binoculars

Photographing

- Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) ST-8XME CCD -camera
- Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) AO-7 Adaptive Optics Accessory
- Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) CFW-8 Color Filter Wheel
- Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) CFW-8 extra carrousel
- Johnson UBVRI photometry filters
- Optec NextGen 0.5 Focal Reducer
- Meade Series 5000 2" TeleXtender
- Meade LPI -camera
- Philips ToUcam Pro web camera + telescope adapter
- ScopeTronix Digi-T camera adapter (Nikon CP885, Nikon CP4300)

Computer Softwares

- MaxIm DL 4
- Aip4Win
- AutoStar Suite
- Skymap Pro 8
- The Sky 6
- Registax

Filters

- Colour Filters:

• Celestron No. 25, Celestron No. 21, Celestron No. 96-0.6, Neutral Density "Moonfilter", Color filters and Moon filter from TAL-1 telescope

- Other Filters:

• Baader OIII, Baader UV/IR Cut, Baader U-Filter "Venusfilter" (Photo-only), Baader UHC-S Nebula, Baader Solar Continuum filter, Celestron Polarizer, Neodymium Moon & Skyglow

Other equipment

- AFT Wireless Weather Station - Measures outside temperature, speed of wind, direction of wind, rainfall, air pressure and moisture of air. Time synchronized with atom clock in German.
- Meade Field De-rotater
- Meade 2" Diagonal Mirror
- JS-observatory's Sun filter to Helios Skyliner
- Sun filters to 12" Meade LX200GPS (D5.0 and D3.5)
- JS-observatory's Sun filter to 5" Meade LXD55 EMC