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This page and related links give information on astronomical observations at the 1.82m telescope, located at Cima Ekar-Asiago(Italy).
Observing time is allocated purely on the basis of scientific merit of the applications. Large project proposal call is opened every two years, while small project proposals can be send to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. at any moment. Se templates below.

DETAILS OF THE PROCEDURES

Time allocation

Service mode 

 At the Asiago 182cm telescope a number of programs require observations in Service Mode. These observations will be performed by staff observers during dedicated nights. For request observing time fill this form.

Target of opportunity

At the Asiago 182cm telescope Target of Opportunity (TOO) programmes may be executed during the nights allocated for other projects. In general a TOO observation will take less than 1 hour to be performed.No compensation for time lost is given to the observer. Observers are invited to collaborate where possible in applications for TOO observations.

Visitor mode

 Information for Local Accommodation

 A number of guest rooms are available both at Asiago and Cima Ekar. The observer should send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. a few days in advance specifying the number of nights required and providing his/her personal details. Guests have to pay for the room accommodation. No restaurant facility is provided at the Observatory, except for two small kitchens located in the same building as the guest rooms. In practice, accommodation in town is a good option, difficult to book only in July, August, at Christmas and in February.

Observing constraints.

A number of distributed probes record the temperature, humidity inside and outside the dome, the wind speed etc. These data are archived by the weather monitoring system and are visible for the observer in the Meteo web page:http://www.oapd.inaf.it/meteo/index.php
The respect of these rules is the observer's responsibility:

  • When the relative humidity exceeds 90% the dome must be kept closed.
  • The dome must be immediatly close during the observation if the humidity reach 95%
  • The dome can be reopened when the humidity drops below 90%.
  • The dome must be kept closed if the wind speed exceed, even if temporary, 10 m/s. It can be open if wind speed does not exceed 10 m/s after a time interval of half an hour.
  • During the observation, if the wind speed reach 10 m/s, the dome must be partiatly close and not kept along wind direction only untill the end of the ongoing exposure. At the end of the exposure, the dome must be close.
  • During the observation, if the wind speed reach, even if temporary, 12 m/s the dome must be immediatly close.

 The last graph of the page: http://eddie.oapd.inaf.it/graficiMeteo.php gives the maximun wind speed value recorded in half an hour and must be controlled during the observation.

Night report.

Please note that all observers at the end of each session of night work are asked to fill the night report indicating clearly where problems were found during observations in order to be able to solve the problems and to allow the observation for the next night. You can find the page to be filled " here."

Policy of the observations.

Data Policy for the Cima Ekar Observatory

The data obtained with the telescope of Cima Ekar (Asiago) have a proprietary period of 1 year since the date of the observations. After this time they are released and become available from the Archive.

Acknowledgments

Publications based on Asiago proprietary or archive observations have to give  in a footnote on the first page of the article  the following citation:" based on observations collected at Asiago Observatory".

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