• DocumentCode
    3663616
  • Title

    The astronomical seeing measurements at Langkawi National Observatory

  • Author

    Nazhatulshima Ahmad;Chin Wei Loon;Muhammad Shamin Syukor;Saedah Haron;Mohd. Zambri Zainuddin;Muhammad RedzuanMd Tahar

  • Author_Institution
    Space Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    339
  • Lastpage
    342
  • Abstract
    We present seeing measurements of Langkawi National Observatory during the period from 2014 May 6 to 2015 March 26. The measurements were carried out with Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM) of STV and Alcor system. The median seeing was measured to be best at 0.8 arcseconds in May 2014 with STV system and 0.5 arcseconds in December 2015 with Alcor system.
  • Keywords
    "Telescopes","Software","Atmospheric measurements","Monitoring","Apertures","Cameras","Extraterrestrial measurements"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Space Science and Communication (IconSpace), 2015 International Conference on
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2165-431X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IconSpace.2015.7283740
  • Filename
    7283740