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Infrastructure and facilities available at INAF Catania Astrophysical Observatory Salvo Scuderi INAF OACT 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103

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Where we are located Serra La Nave (Mt. Etna) Altitude: 1725 m Longitude: +14 58' 23" Latitude +37 41' 33" Catania Altitude: 180 m Longitude: 15 4 18 Latitude : 37 31 43 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103

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Catania Station The equatorial spar is equipped with 3 instruments: Cook refractor (150/2230 mm), used to make daily drawings of sunspot-groups from visual observation; 150-mm refractor (2300 mm focal length) feeding a Zeiss H Lyot-filter (bandwidth of 0.25 or 0.50 tunable filter range +/- 1 ) and a 2048 x 2048 E2V CCD 42-40 array (in patrol full disk mode the camera can take images every 150 sec), with a dynamical range of 16 bit; 150-mm refractor (2300 mm focal length) feeding a H Halle-filter for limb observations. 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103 Global H-alpha Network Solar Influences Data Analysis Center (SIDC) World Data Center for the Sunspot Index (NOAA - Boulder)

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The equatorial spar Cook refractor (150/2230 mm), used to make daily drawings of sunspot- groups from visual observation Lens support allowing micrometric adjustements of the focus H Halle filter for limb observations of the chromosphere H Zeiss filter for observations of the chromosphere Support used to make drawings of sunspots and pores Control camera 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103

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Solar Observations The Photosphere (Oct 27, 2003) The Cromosphere (Oct 27, 2003) 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103

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Solar data archive and distribution Taking into account that solar observations started in Catania more than one century ago, we stress the important heritage provided by the several and different sets of data, like the photographic archives stored at the Catania Observatory. These archives mostly consist of synoptic full-disk photospheric and chromospheric observations, the latter taken with a spectroheliograph or with birifringent filters, in the CaII K and H lines. These observations, stored on plates and acetate negatives, date from 1926 to 1998. Digitized jpeg images of the photosphere, chromosphere (in H) and scanned images of the drawings of the photosphere from 1998 to 2010 are available at ftp://inaf-node- 83.oact.inaf.it/ftp://inaf-node- 83.oact.inaf.it/ On request, we provide fits files of the images of the photosphere and chromosphere, which can be used for scientific analysis. Together with these data, we also provide the flat-field and dark current files. 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103

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Serra La Nave Station Guest House 91cm Telescope Dome 61cm Telescope Dome APT2 complex Garage Guardian building Etna Park ASTRI site Entrance 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103

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91cm Telescope Dome Telescope Camera for imaging FOV: 10.5x10.5 arcmin Scale: 0.61 arcsec/pix Filters: UBVRI Current status: Operational CAOS Fiber Fed Spectropolarimeter Range: 0.391.05 m Resolution: 55000 Polarimetric Mode: 0.390.75 m Current status: Science Verification 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103

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APT2 complex APT2 Ritchey-Chretien, 80cm, f/8 Robotic Pointing speed: 0.75 deg s -1 Unvignetted FoV: 16 arcmin Scale : 0.37 arcsec pixel -1 Filters: UBVRI Current status: Science Verification APT2 Meade 40 40 cm telescope used for educational activities EMPTY DOME 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103

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New Project - ASTRI Design, development and production, within the Cherenkov Telescope Array framework, of an end to end prototype of a Small Size Telescope, SST, devoted to the 1-100 TeV gamma ray energy region investigated by CTA. Dual-mirror optics, Schwarschild-Couder configuration Main mirror diameter: 4 meters Compact focal plane camera based on Si-PMs sensors First Light: 2014 Current Status: Pillar Construction 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103

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61cm Telescope Schmidt Telescope Decommissioned 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103

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Guest House Electronics workshop Mechanical workshop Conference room 20 Rooms (kitchen area, bathroom) Offices Dining room area 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103

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Auxiliary Instrumentation Sismographs High precision GPS (horizontal-vertical surface movements), Gravimeter (absolute and relative) Pludix LIDAR All Sky Camera 2 Weather Station Lightning Detector 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103

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Network connection Fiber optic Intranet All buildings at the Observatory are connected through wired and/or wireless local network and by a direct radio link to the Catania Observatory (5-10Mbit/s) 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103

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Site Characteristics ( @ night ) 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103

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Site Characteristics 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103

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The GONG Network SLN 1st SPRING Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2103