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Lunar Phase:

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Telescopes

UBO is currently home to an Alluna Optics Ritchey Chretien telescope with a 50cm primary mirror. This is mounted on the custom built English Equatorial mount that dates back to the inauguration of UBO in the early 1980s. We drive the mount with the MKS 5000 telescope control system from Software Bisque and their "TheSkyX Professional" software package.

Prior to 2013 UBO housed a 16in Cassegrain telescope that we used for spectroscopy, and a 14in Schmidt Cassegrain Meade LX200R that we used for imaging. Further details of this period are available here.

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