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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.

  • 305 mm f/4 primary mirror
  • Mirror focal length 1185 mm
  • Robust 9-points mirror cell
  • 130 mm minor-axis secondary mirror
  • Carbon-fiber tube
  • 4" focuser with three linear bearings
  • M4 motorized focuser electronics
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    M2Mount

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

  • Load capacity 50+ kg of instruments
  • Friction drives on both axes
  • Periodic error ≤ 1 arcsec
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    Camera

    The camera pack consists of:

  • Moravian Instruments C5A-150M CMOS camera
  • EFW-5XLM-7 External Filter Wheel for 7 filters 50 x 50mm
  • G5-OAG Off-axis Guider Adapter
  • C1-5000A guiding camera
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    Corrector

    TCMTv2 first light image

    A large field of view 116'x116' with the excellent image quality 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.

    TCMTv2 first light image TCMTv2 field of view

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

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