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News List
2024
Sep 30, 2024
Succeeded in photography of Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas at TAO summit facility!
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The University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory (TAO) will attempt to photograph Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas in the early morning hours of September 30 to October 4, 2024 in Chilean time.If we are successful in photography of Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, it will be posted on this website.
On the first day of photography, September 30, 2024 at 04:48-06:30 (CST), we succeeded in taking a still photograph and a time-lapse video of the comet! The photo shows Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas at 6:09 a.m. on September 30 (CST).
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Jul 31, 2024
Development of a Screen camera for optical adjustment of the Telescope |
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The optical system of TAO 6.5m Telescope consists of three mirrors. They are the biggest primary mirror of 6.5m diameter, the secondary mirror with a diameter of less than 1m, and the third mirror which folds back the light to the Nasmyth focus. In order to form a clear image of astronomical objects through the telescope...
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Apr 30, 2024
Breaking news! The University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory (TAO) Telescope Site Completion Ceremony Holds |
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The University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory (TAO) Project is to construct the 6.5m optical-infrared telescope at summit of Cerro Chajnantor, an altitude of 5,640 m (18,500 ft) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. TAO Project not only conducts cutting-edge researches in astronomy and astrophysics covering a wide range of fields from the ...
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Apr 29, 2024
TAO Workshop was held at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile |
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Prior to the completion ceremony of the University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory (TAO) Telescope site, a workshop was held at San Joaquin campus of Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC) on April 29. It was entitled "One-day Workshop on Astronomy in the TAO Era: Synergies with Facilities in Chile", where...
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Mar 29, 2024
Trial run for heavy and wide components on TAO summit access road |
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Most important events in construction phase of TAO project are construction of the telescope, installation of mirror coating chamber to the ceiling of support building, and installation of primary mirror to the telescope. To accomplish these tasks, these components have to be transported to the 5,640m summit of Cerro Chajnantor ...
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Feb 29, 2024
Development status of a near-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, TARdYS |
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For TAO Telescope, three first-generation instruments, MIMIZUKU, NICE, and SWIMS, which will be used from the first-light, have been developed. Currently, a new spectrograph TARdYS is being developed to follow them at Centro de Astro-Ingenieria de la Universidad Catolica (AIUC)...
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