TÜBİTAK National Observatory

TÜBİTAK National Observatory - Turkish National Observatories
TÜBITAK Ulusal Gözlemevi - Türkiye Ulusal Gözlemevleri
TÜBİTAK National Observatory at Bakırtepe, Antalya Province, Turkey
OrganizationTurkish National Observatories
Observatory code A84 Edit this on Wikidata
LocationBakırtepe, Antalya, Turkey
Coordinates36°49′27″N 30°20′8″E / 36.82417°N 30.33556°E / 36.82417; 30.33556
Altitude2,450 m (8,040 ft)
Established5 September 1997 Edit this on Wikidata
Websitetrgozlemevleri.gov.tr/yerleskeler/antalya-tug/
Telescopes
RTT150
Cassegrain
T100 (ACE RC1.0)
Ritchey–Chrétien
T60 (OMI RC06)
Ritchey–Chrétien
Schmidt–Cassegrain
ROTSEIIID
Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
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Turkish National Observatories (Turkish: TÜBİTAK Ulusal Gözlemevi - Türkiye Ulusal Gözlemevleri, TUG) is a ground-based astronomical observatory operated by the TUG Turkish National Observatories. Established in 1991, it is located at an altitude of 2,450 m (8,040 ft) in Bakırtepe, around 50 km (31 mi) west-southwest of Antalya in southern Turkey.

There are five telescopes installed in Bakırtepe:

Discoveries

Scientists led by a Turkish astronomer from Ankara University discovered an exoplanet orbiting the giant star HD 208897, which is located at a distance of some 210 light years from the Earth. The exoplanet has a minimum mass of 1.4 Jupiter masses, and rotates its parent star from about 1.05 AU (156,000,000 km (97,000,000 mi)) away in every 353 days on a nearly circular orbit. The discovery is the result of a ten-year-long research work of precise radial-velocity method carried out by using the Coude Echelle Spectrograph (CES) installed on the 1.5-meter Russian-Turkish Telescope (RTT150). Follow-up observations at the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory (OAO) in Japan and the Ankara University Kreiken Observatory (AUKR) confirmed the discovery, which was made public on August 6, 2017.

References

  1. ↑ "RTT150 Teleskobu" (in Turkish). TUG-TÜBİTAK. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  2. ↑ "RTT150 Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope". Head Iki. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  3. ↑ "T100 Teleskobu" (in Turkish). TUG-TÜBİTAK. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  4. ↑ "T60 Teleskobu" (in Turkish). TUG-TÜBİTAK. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  5. ↑ "YT40 Teleskobu (2006-2008)" (in Turkish). TUG-TÜBİTAK. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  6. ↑ "LX200 Series". Meade Instruments. Archived from the original on 2013-01-19. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  7. ↑ "ROTSEIIID Teleskobu" (in Turkish). TUG-TÜBİTAK. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  8. ↑ "Turkish scientists discover a planet for the first time". Daily Sabah. 2017-08-13. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
  9. ↑ Nowakowski, Tomasz report (2017-08-10). "Jupiter-mass planet orbiting giant star discovered". PHYS ORG. Retrieved 2017-08-21.