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Thirty CentiMeter Telescope
version 2

The telescope is designed to cover the Moravian Instruments C5A-150M camera field of view with minimal vignetting to achieve greatest possible field of view with better than 1"/px sampling.

Both the telescope and mount are manufactured by Martin Myslivec.

M2Mount

The mount, designed and built by M. Myslivec, can track for several minutes without guiding with seeing-limited precision.

Camera

The camera pack consists of:

Corrector

A large field of view 116'x116' is allowed by the 4" ASA Wynne corrector.

The image of the Moon below is the first-light image taken by TCMTv2. The field of view spans nearly four angular diameters of the Moon.

A wide field of view is not traded for resolution. The TCMT v2 can achieve 0.65"/pixel sampling, which corresponds well to seeing between 1.5" and 2" on good nights.

The deatil of the M81 galaxy below compares the TCMT v2 image (left) with DSS2 red image (right).

For more real TCMTv2 images, refer to the Gallery section.

An older page describing the original TCMT tlescope and its instruments is available here.