The Antola Public Observatory: a newborn European facility

A. Federici1*, P. Arduino1, A. Riva2, and F. M. Zerbi3
1Parco Naturale Regionale dell'Antola, Villa Borzino, Via XXV Aprile, 17, 16012 Busalla (Ge), Italy
2INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Strada Osservatorio 20, 10025 Pino Torinese (To), Italy
3INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate (Lc) Italy

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Abstract

Since this summer the Natural Park of Antola hosts an Astronomical Observatory. The Observatory hosts a meeting room for 50 people, a 6-mt dome digital planetarium and an 80 cm RC alt-az telescope. The telescope is equipped with a full set of eyepieces, a SBIG 11 Mpixel CCD camera and a fiber-fed high resolution FLECHAS spectrograph. We describe in this paper the main characteristics on this newborn Observatory as well as its plan for operations.

The Antola Observatory Internal configuration of the Antola Observatory and Planetarium area The Antola Observatory Conference Hall
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The Antola T0800-01 installed in the dome The full moon easily fits in the corrected FoV of Antola Telescope (Courtesy M. Dietzel) The Antola Observatory instrumentation
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Keywords : telescope: robotic – outreach: education.