Taurus Hill Observatory bought Starlight Xpress Oculus All Sky -camera in 2013. Now there is a possibility to see the latest picture taken by the camera directly in THO web pages. The direct link to the camera page is http://www.kassiopeia.net/taivaskamera/. Note that camera doesn’t take pictures 24/7. The reason for this that the camera doesn’t […]
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Taurus Hill Observatory in EPSC 2013, London 9.-13.9.2013.
Taurus Hill Observatory will presents its research work in European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) in London on Thursday 12 September 17:45–19:15 (EPSC Poster Area). The poster will be set up already on Wednesday, so it is possible to preview it before the poster session. This time THO’s title of the poster is “Pro-Amateur Observatories as a […]
Problems with Taurus Hill Observatory and Warkauden Kassiopeia Finnish web sites.
Taurus Hill Observatory and Warkauden Kassiopeia Finnish web sites are now down and there will be massive updates to these sites during next week or so. These updates will cause some problems also for this THO english web site. At least some of the pictures are missing due there are part of the Finnish THO […]
New CCD camera for Taurus Hill Observatory.
The new CCD camera of the Taurus Hill Observatory has arrived. Camera is the latest SBIG model STT-8300M that includes self guiding filter wheel. In this filter wheel there are eight slots for 1,25″ sized filters. The filter wheel is very precise so when changing the filter, you don’t have to refocus the telescope and […]
Sun photographed with Lunt LS60 h-alpha solar telescope.
THO research team rehearsed the photographing of the Sun with 2.4″ Lunt LS60 h-alpha solar telescope owned by the observatory. Team managed to photograph the Sun with different exposure times and different h-alpha settings on two days (17.5 and 19.5.). Below are some of the photographs that team managed to take during the rehearsals. Photos: […]
Taurus Hill Observatory main telescope out of order.
THO’s Paramount ME mount is now out of order for the time being. The main printed circuit board of the mount is broken and it takes some time to fix the board or order a new one. Observatory will use other telescopes for public star shows, but photographing isn’t possible at the moment. We will […]
Taurus Hill Observatory research team in EPSC-DPS in Nantes, France.
Taurus Hill Observatory research team members Tuomo Salmi and Harri Haukka will participate to the EPSC-DPS conference that is held in Nantes, France, 2.-7.10.2011. Tuomo Salmi will give an oral presentation about the exoplanet research and observations that THO reasearch team have done in las years. Tuomo’s presentation, “Ground Based Support for Exoplanet Space Missions“, […]
Entry to the Taurus Hill Observatorys “Summer Photo Contest 2011” is closed.
Warkauden Kassiopeia and Taurus Hill Observatory organized a “Summer Photo Contest” for the members of the Warkauden Kassiopeia during the 1.5-15.9.2011. Now the entry time for this contest has passed and the jury will judge the photos that were submitted before 15th of September. The jury will have five categories for the pictures and from […]
Some photos about the Graz exoplanet workshop in our gallery.
Taurus Hill Obsevatory research team members Tuomo Salmi and Harri Haukka participated to the “1st Europlanet Workshop on Coordinated Observations of Exoplanets from Ground and Space” that was held January 29-30, 2011 in Graz, Austria. The workshop was very interesting and there were a lot of discussions about possible projects. The results of the workshop […]
1st Europlanet Workshop on Coordinated Observations of Exoplanets from Ground and Space.
THO research team members Tuomo Salmi and Harri Haukka participate the “1st Europlanet Workshop on Coordinated Observations of Exoplanets from Ground and Space” that is held January 29-30, 2011 in Graz, Austria. This workshop goal is to improve the collaboration between the pro-amateurs and professional astronomers. Hopefully the result of the workshop is that pro-amateurs […]
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