Piszkéstető Station
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| Organization | Hungarian Academy of Sciences | ||||||||
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| Location | Piszkéstető, Mátra Mountains, Hungary | ||||||||
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| Website | Hungarian Academy of Scienses Konkoly Observatory | ||||||||
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The Piszkéstető Station or Piszkéstető Mountain Station is an astronomical observatory in Mátra Mountains, about 80 kilometers northeast of Hungary's capital Budapest. It is a station of Konkoly Observatory, first built in 1958. It has the IAU codes 461 and 561 for the Szeged University and Konkoly Observatory, respectively. The minor planet 37432 Piszkéstető is named after the station, where it was discovered in 2002.[1]
The observatory features four telescopes:[2]
- 60/90/180-centimetre Schmidt telescope since 1962
- 50-centimetre Cassegrain telescope since 1966
- 1-metre Ritchey–Chrétien telescope since 1974
- 40-centimetre Ritchey–Chrétien telescope since 2010
References
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- ↑ 40cm RC Telescope
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