www.baader-observatories.com
A 4.5M Baader AllSky dome was installed on the roof of the administration building of the Max Planck Institutes for Astrophysics (MPA) and Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in December 2012. Since then, the dome has performed its service without complaint; maintenance and repairs were not required during the first 7 years of operation.
The installed ABOT observatory control software enables autonomous as well as interactive observations, so that the stars can be observed at any time when the weather is good.
Inside the dome, a 10Micron GM4000 HPS mount with a PlaneWave CDK24 is operated on the modular Baader steel pier. An SBIG STX-16803 CCD camera is used as the imaging device. The main purpose is the training of students at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in photometry and spectroscopy.
Link to weather and webcam images:
www.mpe.mpg.de/~burwitz/cog.html
From the press:
Focused views into space – article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung from 06.10.2020, on the occasion of the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics to the director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), Reinhard Genzel. In the article image (shown on the right), the 4.5M AllSky dome can be seen with the current telescope, a PlaneWave CDK 24 on a 10Micron GM4000 mount.
