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Departments
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Stellar Department
Head
Martin VANKO
Deputy Head
Theodor PRIBULLA
Main research activities
- Eclipsing binaries & Extrasolar planets
- Jan BUDAJ
- Zoltan GARAI
- Lubomir HAMBALEK
- Richard KOMZIK
- Theodor PRIBULLA
- Martin VANKO
- Andrij Maliuk, postgraduate student
- Symbiotic stars & Novae
- Drahomir CHOCHOL
- Emil KUNDRA
- Natalia SAGATOVA
- Sergei SHUGAROV
- Augustin SKOPAL
Telescope operators
- Vladimir KOLLAR
- Peter SIVANIC
Observatories & Instrumentation
- Skalnate Pleso Observatory
- Coordinates (WGS 84)
- Longitude: 20° 14' 01" EAST
- Latitude: 49° 11' 22" NORTH
- Altitude: 1 786 (above sea level), 1 828 (ellipsoid) meters
- Telescope: 1.3m Nasmyth-Cassegrain reflector (f=10.4m); ASTELCO Systems GmbH, Germany
- echelle spectrograph of the MUSICOS type, resolving power R=35000, f/4,
spectral range 425 - 720 nm, limiting magnitude: SNR = 15 for V=11 star in
15-minute exposure
- large-frame CCD camera ARC 4k x 4k, UBVRI (Bessell) filters, 4096×4096
chip, 15×15 μm pixels, field of view 19′×19′
- Stara Lesna Observatory, G1 dome
- Coordinates (WGS 84)
- Longitude: 20° 17' 21" EAST
- Latitude: 49° 09' 06" NORTH
- Altitude: 810 (above sea level), 850 (ellipsoid) meters
- Telescope: 60 cm (24 inches) Cassegrain reflector (f=750 cm); Carl
Zeiss Jena, Germany
- echelle spectrograph eShel, resolving power R=11000, f/5,
spectral range 392 - 710nm, limiting magnitude: SNR = 18 for V=11 star in
15-minute exposure, Shelyak Instruments, France
- Stara Lesna Observatory, G2 dome
- Coordinates (WGS 84)
- Longitude: 20° 17' 25" EAST
- Latitude: 49° 09' 08" NORTH
- Altitude: 810 (above sea level), 850 (ellipsoid) meters
- Telescope: 60 cm (24 inches) Cassegrain reflector (f=750 cm), Carl
Zeiss Jena, Germany
- CCD camera FLI ML 3041, filter set UBVRI (Bessell), chip 2048×2048,
pixel size 15×15 μm, field size 14′×14′
Miscellaneous
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