The Jay Baum Rich telescope: a Centurion 28 at the Wise Observatory

摘要

We describe the third telescope of the Wise Observatory, a 0.70-m Centurion 28 (C28IL) installed in 2013 and named the Jay Baum Rich telescope to enhance significantly the wide-field imaging possibilities of the observatory. The telescope operates from a 5.5-m diameter dome and is equipped with a large-format red-sensitive CCD camera, offering a similar to one square degree imaged field sampled at 0 ''.83 pixel(-1). The telescope was acquired to provide an alternative to the existing 1-m telescope for studies such as microlensing, photometry of transiting exo-planets, the followup of supernovae and other optical transients, and the detection of very low surface brightness extended features around galaxies.