Chasing Neutron Stars with ASA gear

[TerryMcK]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61911047

 

If the article disappears it is a rig looking for collapsed Neutron stars and is mounted on top of a mountain in La Palma, Spain.

It looks to me as if each of the 2 domes has a bank of 8 H400 f2.4 Astrographs costing around 45000 Euros each. They are atop an ASA DDM500 costing around 93000 Euros each. So a total of 16 H400's and 2 DDM500's with all the ancillary equipment costing a lot of dosh!

 

Not sure about the sensors they are using but probably CCD's of equal high cost/quality.

 

 

 

[Nightspore]

Colliding neutron stars created Heavy Metal?

 

 

Weird.

[Demon]

The picture really doesn't do it justice, I originally thought that mount looks too small, but it really isnt when you look at the dims for it... https://www.astrosysteme.com.    Must be fun setting all those up together...