{"id":314,"date":"2017-02-22T09:12:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T08:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmk10k.aip.de\/?page_id=314"},"modified":"2021-02-24T17:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:24:13","slug":"the-bmk75","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bmk10k.aip.de\/?page_id=314","title":{"rendered":"The BMK75"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Zeiss had built two systems, one for the TUM in Wettzell, Bavaria and the other for the Observatory Lustb\u00fchel near Graz, Austria. Our system is the one from Wettzell. It was originally financed through DFG SFB78.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BMKs were built in the 1970\u2019s by Carl Zeiss Jena (see Handbuch) with the purpose of imaging laser-illuminated satellites for their orbital determinations. Therefore, the optical system is laid out for high astrometric and photometric precision and is a so called Astro-Topar system with A-characteristics consisting of 10 individual lenses (see Table 1). Its free entrance aperture is 300mm (338mm lens diameter), f\/2.5 and has a focal length of 751.1mm (cf. BMK75).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No design file is available nor are any of the glasses and radii known. The focal plane is planar over a linear range of 180mm by 180mm (nominally 13.6\u00b0\u00d713.6\u00b0) and has a measured back-focal-distance of 43.4\u00b10.1 mm. Due to the glass selection the usable wavelength range is restricted to redder than 450 nm which, therefore, does not permit the application of U or B filters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A large objective filter for the yellow-to-red wavelength range (530-694 nm; c\/o Zeiss Handbuch 1972) provides a high-definition option with camera spots of 5 \u03bcm rms (without the filter the nominal spot size is 7\u03bcm). Zeiss quotes transmission numbers for the yellow-to-red \u201cC\u201d filter of between 92% (530nm) to 96% (690nm). No system transmission is given or known. We measured the transmission of the Zeiss front filter in our lab. The results of this measurement can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Graz BMK had been used with Johnson V, R and I filters in the past (Weingrill 2007, Master thesis, Univ. Graz). The only optical error measurable is the chromatic aberration, which means that redder wavelengths have a longer focal length. Zeiss also quotes an average astrometric error of 0.75\u2032\u2032 per measurement from in-house satellite measurements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The optical length of the optics tube is 984 mm without the CCD dewar, the entire height is 2300 mm. The action radius (moving circle) measured from the system\u2019s center of gravity is 1000 mm. The latter is itself off by 80 mm from the center of the mount\u2019s footprint. The system height floor-to-optics is 2000mm when in home position (telescope on one side of the mount, zenith pointing).
The telescope and the CCD are currently mated in Potsdam, Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Optics<\/td>Zeiss Astro-Topar 10 lens
A-grade system<\/td>		300mm f\/2.5 f=752.48\u00b10.02mm
Entrance lens diameter 338 mm
Image size 180mm \u00d7 180mm
Angular image size 13.6\u00b0\u00d713.6\u00b0
Diagonal image size 19.3\u00b0
Spot diameter 5 \u03bcm (measured 7\u03bcm)
Internal shutter
Tube total weight (w\/o plate cassette) 250kg<\/td><\/tr>
Mount<\/td>Zeiss German Mount<\/td>Polar height adjustable
Sidereal tracking (no guiding) accurate to 0.5\u2032\u2032 for 5min
Slew speed (nominal) 3\u00b0\/sec
Weights: mount 480 kg, counterweight 210 kg<\/td><\/tr>
Electronics<\/td>Beckhoff<\/td>Beckhoff CX5120 PLC
Beckhoff AX5112 Servo Drivers
Beckhoff AM8543 Servo Motors<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zeiss had built two systems, one for the TUM in Wettzell, Bavaria and the other for the Observatory Lustb\u00fchel near Graz, Austria. Our system is the one from Wettzell. It was originally financed through DFG SFB78. The BMKs were built in the 1970\u2019s by Carl Zeiss Jena (see Handbuch) with the purpose of imaging laser-illuminated satellites … Continue reading The BMK75<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":116,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-314","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmk10k.aip.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmk10k.aip.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmk10k.aip.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmk10k.aip.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmk10k.aip.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bmk10k.aip.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/bmk10k.aip.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/314\/revisions\/532"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmk10k.aip.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmk10k.aip.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}