sorted by:   Date       Type/Aperture 1.2m ALT-AZ telescope STELLA-I and -II Two robotic 1.2m telescopes for photometry and imaging as well as spectroscopy, both in the optical and infrared. STELLA is an observatory operating in fully unattended mode. P.I.: K. Strassmeier, AIP Potsdam, Germany Pictures: AIP Potsdam MONET (North and South) Two robotic 1.2 m telescopes for imaging and photometry on both hemispheres, one site in Texas (McDonald Observatory), one site in South Africa (South African Astronomical Observatory). This project was granted by private Krupp-Foundation. P.I.: F.V. Hessman, Institute for Astrophysics Göttingen HRT Hamburg Robotic Telescope Robotic 1.2m telescope for long-term monitoring of active stars with high resolution spectroscopy. P.I.: A. Hempelmann, Hamburger Sternwarte, Germany 0.8m ALT-AZ telescope IRIS InfraRed Imaging Survey telescope for a German-US collaboration to be installed at the OCA, Chile. P.I.: Prof. Dr. R. Chini, Astronomical Institute of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum RoboTel Smaller, 0.8m copy of the STELLA telescopes, which serves as a test scope for instrumental developments and for public relations in Potsdam, Germany. P.I.: K. Strassmeier, AIP Potsdam, Germany Pictures: AIP Potsdam 0.6m ALT-AZ telescope Zeiss Almaty 60cm alt-az telescope for German Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH, to be installed at a new facility in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Carl Zeiss, formerly a manufacturer of high-end telescopes by itself, now trusts in Halfmann telescopes. P.I.: Lutz Müller, Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH TROBAR Automatically and manually observing 0.6m telescope for the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Valencia. P.I.: V. Martinez, University of Valencia, Spain Webcam: TROBAR live Picture gallery: TROBAR under construction Picture gallery: Galaxies and nebulae Video: TROBAR in action (AVI, 4.8 Mb) 0.6m: REM Rapid Eye Mount Robotic 0.6m telescope of the Brera Astronomical Observatory for investigating GRB events (Gamma Ray Bursts) in the infrared. REM is the first automatic infrared telescope at all. P.I.: E. Molinari (recently), P. Zerbi (formerly), OAB Merate, Italy Publications: REM Publications (PDF) Pictures: d'REM Team Pictures: GOLEM group 0.5m ALT-AZ telescope Sabadell Newly developed 50cm alt-az telescope for the largest astronomy association in Spain. This telescope will yield new opportunities for smaller observatories and the most ambitious amateurs to operate a telescope remotely or even robotically at a very good site far away frome home. P.I.: Antoni Ardanuy, Agrupació Astronòmica de Sabadell Siderostat Göttingen VVT-Siderostat 0.5m Siderostat system to feed an existing Gregory telescope. The instrument will be used for research and teaching for both daytime observations of the sun as well as nighttime observations. To minimize vignetting, the siderostat automatically switches between two predefined observation configurations of the mirrors. The Telescope Control Software TCS is provided by our partner Tuparev Technologies. P.I.: F. Kneer, Institute for Astrophysics Göttingen ESO-VLTI project Two 0.4m Siderostat systems with beam compressors and enclosures for the first interferometric measurements of the VLT Interferometer project of the European Southern Observatory at Cerro Paranal in Chile. P.I.: F. Derie, ESO Garching DIMM Seeing monitor 0.35m DIMMs for TMT Six robotic and mobile seeing monitors (DIMMs - Differential Image Motion Monitors), with 3m high towers and enclosures for site testing for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) led by the Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA). The project was formerly known as CELT by the California Institute of Technology Caltech. P.I.: G. Djorgovski, Caltech, U.S.A Leader Site Testing Group: Matthias Schoeck, TMT Publications: - My Summer Vacation in February - Wang, L, et al. 2007, ApOpt 46, 6460: High-accuracy differential image motion monitor measurements for the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing program - Schöck, M., et al. 2007, RMxAC 31, 10: Status of the TMT Site Evaluation Process - Els, S., et al. 2008, ApOpt 47, 2610: Study on the precision of the multiaperture scintillation sensor turbulence profiler (MASS) employed in the site testing campaign for the Thirty Meter Telescope diverse amateur telescopes