THE TEAM OF THE BELISSIMA PROJECT IN HUNGARY
Three collaborators of AOB and participants of the BELISSIMA project, Dr Zorica Cvetković, Dr Rade Pavlović i Dr Oliver Vince visited from February 24th to 26th 2011 the Observatory Piszkesteto in the mountain Matra. Their goal was to get acquainted with Andor iXon + 888 back-illuminated EMCCD camera.
Among the planned equipment at AOB there is also a purchase of the speckle interferometer which will be mounted on the new "Milanković" telescope. This instrument will be used for the observations of visually binary stars with close components (the separation is less than 1 arcsec). The speckle interferometry is an observational technique of high angular resolution which is used to resolve close components of binary stars and is used for the determination of their relative coordinates. The speckle interferometer is made of several components, and the main part is a fast CCD camera which may make shots in small time intervals (order of several milliseconds).
The visit was organized by Dr Tibor Hegedus, from Baja Astronomical Observatory and on this occasion, 5000 shots of one binary star were made in several minutes.
The results of this visit were presented at the Journal Club held at AOB on March, 13th 2011.
Left to right: Dr. Oliver Vince, Dr. Zorica Cvetković and Dr. Rade Pavlović at the Observatory Piszkesteto.
