Ground-based facilities that already contributed with ground-based observations
BRITE-Constellation targets have been included in several observing programmes at different telescopes since January 2013.
The location of all contributing observatories around the world can be seen on the map below.
The table below gives and overview of the observatories and instruments involved in complementary support observations for BRITE-Constellation in alphabetical order.
If you are interested to use one of the facilities, please contact the corresponding responsibles directly.
| OBSERVATORY | TELESCOPE | INSTRUMENT | CONTACT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona, US | PST2 0.7m robotic telescope | fiber-fed echelle spectrograph | Monika Fagas Wojtek Dimitrow Krzysztof Kaminski |
| Borowiec Astrogeodynamical Observatory, Poznan, Poland | PST1 0.5m Newtonian telescope | fiber-fed echelle spectrograph | Monika Fagas Wojtek Dimitrow Krzysztof Kaminski |
| CASLEO Observatory, Argentina | 60cm telescope | classification spectroscopy | Olga Pintado |
| Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO), Chile | 1.5m telescope | CHIRON high resolution spectrograph | David James |
| La Palma, Spain | Mercator 1.2m telescope | HERMES echelle spectrograph | Konstanze Zwintz |
| La Silla Observatory, Chile | 3.6m telescope | HarpsPol spectropolarimeter | Coralie Neiner |
| Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii | CFHT 3.6m telescope | ESPaDOnS spectropolarimeter | Gregg Wade |
| Mc Donald Observatory, Texas, US | 2.1m telescope | Sandiford echelle spectrograph | Gerald Handler |
| Moletai Observatory, Lithuania | 1.65m telescope | spectrograph with R=30000, 45000 and 60000, wavelength range 400-880nm; photometry | Erika Pakstiene |
| Mont Megantic, Quebec Province, Canada | 1.6m R-C telescope | Boller & Chivens long-slit spectrograph | Anthony Moffat Robert Lamontagne |
| Ondrejov, Czech Republic | Perek 2m telescope | Coude spectrograph | Mary Oksala Jiri Kubat |
| Pic du Midi Observatory, France | 2m Telescope Bernard Lyot | NARVAL spectropolarimeter | Coralie Neiner |
| Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory, Bulgaria | 2m RCC telescope | Coude spectrograph | Ilian Iliev Ivanka Stateva |
| SAAO, South Africa | 1.9m telescope | GIRAFFE echelle spectrograph | Ernst Paunzen |
| SAAO, South Africa | 50cm telescope | Single-channel photometer (Johnson, Strömgren, ND) | Gerald Handler Andrzej Pigulski |
| Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) | space telescope | photometric time series | SMEI |
| Stellar Oscillations Network Group (SONG) | 1m Cassegrain (robotic) telescopes | high resolution spectroscopy | V. Antoci SONG |
| Suhora Observatory, Poland | 60cm telescope | CCD photometry (Johnson, ND) | Grzegorz Stachowski Waldemar Ogloza |
| Suhora Observatory, Poland | 20cm Ritchey Chretien telescope | CCD photometry (UBVRI, ND) | Grzegorz Stachowski Waldemar Ogloza |
| Wroclaw, Poland | 60cm Cassegrain telescope | UBVRI, Halpha | Andrzej Pigulski |