SPICA II

The White-Light Speckle Imaging Camera SPICA II is the successor of SPICA that originally was built at the Hoher List Observatory Germany. It is currently tested at the 20cm Ritchey-Crétien telescope. WL-SPICA shall later be added to the 12" RC telescope for continuous monitoring of close double stars and multiple stars. It currently features a UV/RGB/IR color camera ASI585MC of brand ZWO. A broad-band UV/IR block filter allows for BVR real-time color photometry. Further filters are a wratten #47 violet filter, IR 850 nm, CH4 890nm (20nm) methane filter and 889 nm (8nm bandwith) methane filters for planetary observations.

References:

• T. Bauer, and H. Weghorn, SPICA - the CCD speckle imaging and spectroscopy camera at the Hoher List observatory, Abstract Series No. 11, Astronomische Gesellschaft, ed. G. Klare, 243, Bonn, September 1995.
• Weghorn, H.; Bauer, T.; Geyer, E. H., High-resolution imaging at the ESO Danish 1.5 in Period 54, Astron. Gesellschaft Abstract Ser., 11, 158 (1995).
• Bauer T., 1994. Direct CCD speckle imaging: observations of close binaries at the 1m Cassegrain telescope of the Hoher List Observatory. AG Abs. Ser. 10, p. 153, 1994.

Deep Sky & Spectroscopy

The small Ritchey-Crétien telescope 203/1624 is dedicated to wide-field imaging, spectroscopy. Currently, the speckle interferometry system SPICA is tested at the 20 cm telescope. A new 12" RC telescope is under construction.