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Upgradation of MOT and its relevance to WET campaigns

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The Maidanak One-meter Telescope (MOT) is a Ritchey-Chretien telescope by Carl Zeiss, located atop Maidanak in Uzbekistan, where site parameters indicate excellent atmospheric seeing conditions. An effort to computerize the MOT, jointly made by an Uzbek, Taiwanese and Baltic consortium, is expected to complete in 2005. Monitoring the variability of star clusters will be among the first scientific projects to be carried out. Equipped with sensitive CCD cameras, the MOT, with its middle-Asia geographic location, will be a desirable addition to the Whole Earth Telescope (WET) network. We describe the upgrade engineering and instrumentation of the telescope and how the system can be used in future campaigns.

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  1. Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute, Center for Space Research, Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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Hojaev, A.S. Upgradation of MOT and its relevance to WET campaigns. J Astrophys Astron 26, 311–319 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02702339

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