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Entoto Twining Telescopes: first facilities in East Africa for astronomy research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2017

Solomon Belay Tessema  and
Leonid Berdnikov
Solomon Belay Tessema
Affiliation:
Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Division, Entoto Observatory and Research Center, P.O. Box 33679 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia email: tessemabelay@gmail.com
Leonid Berdnikov
Affiliation:
Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Division, Entoto Observatory and Research Center, P.O. Box 33679 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia email: tessemabelay@gmail.com Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Universitetskii pr. 13, Moscow, 119992Russia email: leonid.berdnikov@gmail.com
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Abstract

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Recently Entoto observatory and research Center launched two 1-m twining telescopes, located on the Entoto mountain in the suburb of Addis Ababa. These telescopes, equipped with four CCDs and echelle spectrograph, will be used for observations of the different types of variable stars, X-ray binaries, double stars, star clusters, exo-planets etc.

Keywords

Entoto observatoryoptical telescopes
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Addendum
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 11 , General Assembly A29A: Astronomy in Focus , August 2015 , E30
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017