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Latitude and longitude: 38°22'47"N 120°46'31"W (+38.3796, -120.7751)
Elevation: 529m
Site manager: Bill Goff
Internet access: DSL
Weather statistics: anitcorrelated with southwest monsoon
Typical good seasons:spring/summer/fall
Phillip Coker 30 cm telescope (COKER30)
Telescope
Type: Meade LX-200GPS (ACF)
Aperture: 30cm
Focal length:3000cm
F-ratio: f/10
Focuser: TCF-S
Mount
Pointing accuracy : 1arcmin
Computer:Wndows 7/Professional PC
Software: MaximDL, ACP, ACP Scheduler
Telecope Advocate: Bill Goff
Imaging
Typical seeing: 3arcsec
Best seeing:<2 arcsec
Vignetting: 10%
Scattered light: none
Image defects: none
Camera
Type: STL-1001E
Filter wheel: STL 8 position
Filters: B,V,Rc,Ic,g,r,i,z
Exposure ratios/filter:
Pixel count: 1024x1024
Pixel scale: 1.65
Field of view: 28x28arcmin
Gain:2e-/pix
Readnoise: 15e-
Full well: 300Ke-
Cosmetic defects:
Dark current: 9e-/pix/sec at 0C
Read time: 10sec
Shortest exposure: 0.2sec
Compressed image size: 900KB
Typical use of system nightly monitoring of dozens of targets