OPTICAL TELESCOPES

Our observatory faciliates many different telescopes for day and night observations.

Coronado Solar Telescope

Equipped with hydrogen-alpha, it is ideal for viewing dramatic prominences rising off the edge of the solar disk.

Capable of seeing an array of other beautiful solar phenomena, including flares, filaments, plages, and surface granulation.

Meade Ritchey–Chrétien 16" LX200R

The installation of this huge robotic instrument is in progress.

The inauguration will be announced and the images of the first light will be presented.

Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain Alt-Az LX90 8"

It is one of the first instruments at the observatory.

It is used for lessons, public and scientific observations since the establishment of the Kition Planetarium & Observatory in 2008.

A robotic telescope with a wide range of eyepieces and filters and cameras.

It is frequently used for observations of the Sun's photosphere, equipped with special solar filters.

Meade Newtonian Reflector 8" - Dobsonian Base

This very powerful instrument became again operational during the 2015 summer school.

Students built a dobsonian base for it and since then it is used for lessons, scientific and public observations.

The optics were reconditions and since then, it produces outstanding sharp images.

Planets and deep sky objects, as well as interesting astronomical phenomena are observed with the help of this telescope.

It has a wide range of eyepieces and filters.

Solar observations are achieved using special solar filters.

Binoculars

The observatory is equipped with a wide range of binoculars.

This stunning image of the Sun

taken with the Coronado Solar Telescope

shows the beatiful features

of the chromosphere.