Summer 2000 Observation Targets
Summer 2000 Observation Targets
The Observatory is located in the southern part of the sea of Galilee,
next to the first Kibbutz in the world, Degania.
The coordinates are: longitude 324 degrees,
26 arc minutes to west; latitude 32 degrees, 43 arc minutes to north, 200 meters
below sea level. This location accords the observatory a unique place among all
observatories in the world. In our everyday work we are trying to make the most
of this advantage and disadvantage at one and the same time. The disadvantages are
obvious to anyone. The advantages are the possibilties opened up for atmospheric
investigation which focuses on atmosheric transmission and its influence on stellar
light. In spite of this, the major part of the investigations at SGAO focus on the magnetic
processes on stars and the Sun.
Equipment: 16" LX200 MEADE computerized telescope and
soon to become a remote
controlled telescope; stellar UBVRI photometer, CCD cameras - ST-6, ST-8, Pictor 416;
2.5 meters solar radio telescope (3 channels of registration with wavelengths 4.8, 5.0,
5.2 cm and temporal resolution 1000 Hz).
Software: package for image processing (PCVista, Mira Professional 3.1), stellar GUIDE catalogue on compact disc, original programs for photometric data reduction.
Stellar Flares
Students Research Projects
(in hebrew only at the moment)
Stellar
Flares Observational Data
Hot Result
Summer 1996 Observations at SGAO
Solar Flares Invitation to cooperation:
We invite those interested to cooperate with the Sea
of Galilee Astrophysical Observatory in research, discussion
and appreciating the heavens to contact:
Summer 2000 Observation Objects
During the summer of 2000 we are conducting photometric observations of a set of
variable stars, and we are glad to invite for cooperation amateurs and
professional astronomers.
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