Eastern Anatolia Observatory gets its telescope

After the announcement of the Nationwide House Program, which was ready beneath the management of the Turkish House Company, to the world by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the work on this subject was stepped up.

The observatory works, which had been supported throughout the scope of the New Era College Transformation Challenge throughout the physique of Atatürk College Astrophysics Analysis and Software Middle (ATASAM) and began to be inbuilt 2012 on the Konaklı Karakaya Hills at an altitude of three thousand 170, have come to an finish.

TELESCOP WILL BE SENT TO ERZURUM BY LAND

Within the observatory, the place 95 % of the infrastructure, constructing and dome development has been accomplished, research are carried out meticulously to get rid of technical deficiencies.

A telescope was inbuilt Italy for the observatory, which is amongst Turkey’s 2023 imaginative and prescient tasks and has an optical system with extra certified and featured tools in comparison with its counterparts on this planet. The telescope, which took about 4 years to construct and was delivered to Kocaeli Gebze Customs Directorate, will probably be delivered to Erzurum by land after the official procedures.

FIRST LIGHT WILL BE RECEIVED IN 2022

The observatory, which is predicted to begin the check section after its set up, is predicted to obtain the primary mild subsequent 12 months.

ATASAM Director and DAG Challenge Coordinator Professor Cahit Yeşilyaprak stated that because of the epidemic, there have been delays and disruptions in international customs permits and procedures for the entry of international researcher technical delegation to the nation and the supply of telescope components.

4 METERS DIAMETER MIRROR COVERED IN RUSSIA

Yeşilyaprak defined that the components of the telescope had been delivered to the nation by land and sea in keeping with the particular permissions obtained. “We introduced all of the components of the telescope to the Gebze Customs Directorate. When the procedures there are completed, we may have transported it to Erzurum and thus utterly introduced the telescope to Turkey. Our massive mirror with a diameter of solely 4 meters was in Russia to be coated, and it’ll set off on the finish of June. In the beginning of June, as quickly because the street is cleared resulting from snow at DAG, we are going to raise the mechanical components of the telescope up in order that the set up can start.” stated.

MANY STAGES COMPLETED

Yeşilyaprak identified to DAG the significance of the asphalt street, which ought to be constructed as quickly as attainable, and said that the mirror from Russia will probably be transported with the asphalting of the street.

Yeşilyaprak said that the primary assessments will start with the completion of the telescope’s set up. “The testing course of is taking a very long time. Since we are going to arrange the telescope in its personal place for the primary time, we are going to cross all assessments corresponding to mechanics, optics, electrical-electronics, stability and software program. We’ve got no components left besides the mirror. We’ve got accomplished many levels of the DAG.” he stated.

“THE WORLD’S EYES ARE ON THE END OF THE DAG A MOMENT in the past”

Yeşilyaprak identified that the telescope has essential technological tools and stated:

“Our telescope is supplied with technological units, particularly by way of sensitivity, decision, high quality knowledge and picture acquisition that aren’t out there in different telescopes of this 4 meter class on this diameter. We’re in strategic place, there isn’t any different telescope of this dimension at this latitude and size, so there’s extra room for worldwide cooperation. It gives the chance to make joint tasks from Chile, Hawaii and the Canary Islands, the place there are massive telescopes.

We may also have the chance to make observations in an infrared area the place the human eye can not see or be delicate to. The rationale for that is that Erzurum is at a excessive altitude and its air is dry and chilly, which gives a terrific benefit. That is why the world’s eyes are on the completion of the DAG.”

THE DEVICE TO STUDY THE PLANETS AROUND THE STARS WAS TAKEN

Yeşilyaprak said that the tender for the coronagraph machine that examines distant planets across the stars has been accomplished, “We purchased the coronagraph machine 2 months in the past. This machine is an optical machine that can detect and study exoplanets, that’s, planets of different photo voltaic methods, with reference to present science, common astronomy and house sciences, which all telescopes, massive and small, are investigating. We introduced this to DAG. At this latitude, longitude, it’s only positional. We have taken an enormous benefit by way of having such featured units.” he stated.

Yeşilyaprak defined that the DAG constructing was utterly coated with its dome and that it got here to an finish. “If we full the telescope set up, we will probably be 100% completed when the assessments are completed. After the assessments, we name any celestial object that exhibits the standard of your telescope and optical system with the optical system to obtain the primary mild, the very best quality image-taking experiment or the commentary course of, we name it the primary mild. First mild. After we obtain it, we are going to announce to the world that the telescope is prepared and begin scientific analysis.” stated.

“WE WANT TO COMPLETE THE MISSIONS GIVEN TO THE NATIONAL SPACE PROGRAM”

Yeşilyaprak reminded that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan talked about DAG on the Nationwide House Program Assembly and made the next evaluation:

“We’re counting down the times to finish the duties given to us within the Nationwide House Program and to serve with the telescope and the optomechatronics laboratory to be established to ensure that Turkey to be at the next scientific degree on the worldwide degree. The pandemic continues, we work within the exterior surroundings, we observe the atmospheric situations and their research We’re planning accordingly. We’ve got ensured the hygienic surroundings as a lot as attainable in DAG, if we proceed by taking all of the precautions like final summer season, we plan to get the primary mild in late 2021 or early 2022.”

Stating that ATASAM cooperated with completely different establishments and regardless of the epidemic, important progress has been made in DAG due to the deliberate and programmed research carried out with the college administration, Yeşilyaprak stated that College Rector Ömer Çomaklı additionally contributed to house sciences academically and administratively throughout the scope of each the New Era College and the Nationwide House Program. He added that he supplied nice technical help.