CAOSP abstracts, Volume: 55, No.: 1, year: 2025

Author(s): Ibrahimov, M.; Sachkov, M.; Nalivkin, M.; Naroenkov, S.; Shugarov, A.; Pons Rodriguez, O.; Barcena Fonseca, Z.; Shmagin, V.
Journal: Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnaté Pleso, vol. 55, no. 1, p. 7-17.
Date: 02/2025
Title: The new 50-cm multi-purpose telescope of the Russian-Cuban observatory
Keyword(s): telescopes, wide field telescopes, astronomical observations
Pages: 7 -- 17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/caosp.2025.55.1.7
NASA ADS Abstract Service: 2025CoSka..55a...7I
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Abstract: Since 2017 the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) and Institute of Geophysics and Astronomy (Cuba) have been implementing a joint international project with the aim of building a distributed global optical telescope network. The first 20 cm aperture robotic telescope of the the Russian-Cuban network has been operating since 2021 in Havana. It has a 3.5×3.5 degree field of view and a FLI PL16803 4K CCD camera with a set of UBVRI photometric filters. Construction of the second 50 cm telescope near Kislovodsk (Russia) has been underway since 2023 and it will be finished at the end of 2024, its scientific operation will start in early 2025. By 2030, the plan is to build the third 1 m telescope at Valle de Picadura (Cuba). The main parameters and scientific equipment of the new 50 cm telescope are described and its role in the Russian-Cuban distributed global telescope network is discussed.