Involved people at OAB: Zitelli, Bernabei, De Blasi, Gualandi, Bruni, Mezzini,
Muzi, Salomoni, Bregoli, Ciattaglia, Innocenti.
The 152 cm telescope G.D. Cassini is available for about 350 nights/year,
but only about half of this time is really useful for observations,
due to weather conditions.
The statistics of the last years is given in Table 2.
Time is allocated every 6 months, trying to avoid excessive fragmentation of
observing time, which would not be efficient with respect to the completion
of the accepted observing programs, given the typical weather conditions of
the site.
The resident staff is composed by 7 technicians.
It is possible to perform a pre-reduction of the observations at the site
with a PC in a local network with the PC for the observations.
MIDAS and IRAF packages are also available.
| Table 2. Cassini Telescope - Nights used per year | |||||||
| nights/year | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 |
used (t 50%) |
118 | 106 | 122 | 105 | 98 | 110 | 121 |
used (t 50%) |
27 | 26 | 19 | 41 | 22 | 38 | 35 |
| used for test | 10 | 37 | 32 | 58 | 33 | 15 | 10 |
| not used (weather) | 169 | 183 | 180 | 142 | 179 | 189 | 163 |
| not used (technical) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| not assigned | 37 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 29 | 13 | 33 |