Project management and status update for DAG (Eastern Anatolia Observatory) the 4 meter VIS/IR optical telescope

KESKİN O., YEŞİLYAPRAK C., JOLISSAINT L.

Conference on Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VIII, Austin,TX, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 10 - 12 Haziran 2018, cilt.10705 identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 10705
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1117/12.2313671
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Austin,TX
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The new 4 m Turkish telescope, DAG (East Anatolian Observatory, Fig. 2), will be located on the summit of the mountain Konakli-Karakaya, at an altitude of 3170 m, near the city of Erzurum, Turkey. First light is expected for August 2020. The telescope is a multi-purpose instrument, and will run observations both in the visible (VIS) and near infrared (NIR) domains, in seeing limited (SL) and adaptive optics (AO) correction mode. In his paper, status updates from DAG telescope will be presented in terms of; (i) DAG telescope optics, (ii) Nasmyth focal planes and platforms, (iii) current progress of the telescope, (iii) current progress of enclosure, (iv) current progress of the observatory building, (v) current process of the astronomical instruments & tendering phase, and (Vi) status of the Optomechatronics Research Laboratory - OPAL.