Observatory Peak Terskol

• Since December 1992 - Taradiy Vladimir Kirillovich - Director of the International Center for Astronomical and Medical-Ecological Research ^[6]
• Now - Alexander Vasilievich Sergeev - Deputy Director of the Observatory

The observatory began to be built in the 1970s by young astronomers of the Main Astronomical Observatory of Ukraine under the leadership of Yaroslav Yatskiv . Contribution to the choice of location for the observatory was made by Sergey Borisovich Novikov ^[7] . 5 tools of various capacities were installed. But progress required larger tools. Therefore, in the second half of the 1980s, the Zeiss 2000 telescope was ordered from Karl Zeiss Jena . In 1986-1988 a dome with a diameter of 20 meters was installed; in 1988, the Ts-2000 telescope was delivered to the Novorossiysk Sea Port. A disassembled telescope, packed in several large boxes, was pulled along the slope of the Terskol peak by a tank tractor ^[8] . From autumn 1990 to 1994, the installation of the telescope was suspended due to lack of funding and a changing political situation .

To save the Ukrainian high-altitude observation base at the initiative of the GAO NASU and the Institute of Physiology. A. Bogomolets (his laboratories were also near Terskol) in December 1992, the International Center for Astronomical and Medical-Environmental Research was established. The director of the center is Vladimir Taradiy. Zeiss 2000 was installed in 1995. In 2001, the construction of a hotel for astronomers began. On March 29, 2006, a strip of total solar eclipse passed through the observatory ^[9] . Since the summer of 2007, the Odessa Observatory, together with PulKON, carried out restoration work on the 80-cm telescope.

• ATSU-26 horizontal solar telescope (D = 65 cm, F = 17.75 m, commissioned in 1989, regular observations began in 1992) ^[10]
• Small horizontal specialized solar telescope SEF-1 (D = 30 cm, F = 3 m, worked 1985 - 1992) ^{[10] [11]}
• Zeiss-600 , Cassegrain systems (D = 60 cm, F = 7.2 m)
• Zeiss-2000 (D = 2 m, F = 6.3 m (with gear), F = 16 m (Ritchie-Chretien focus, field of view 1.2 degrees) or 72 m (Kude focus, field of view 5 arcmin.) , of the Ritchie-Chretien-Coude optical system, introduced in 1995; since the mid-2000s, it has been operated jointly by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Terskol Branch of INASAN RAS and the International Center for Astronomical and Medical-Environmental Research) ^[12] + FLI PL4301E CCD camera (with 50 × 50 mm chip, field 11 'x 11', installed in January 2009) ^[13]
• K-800 telescope (D = 80 cm, F _{direct focus} = 228 cm, F _{Kassegrennovsky} = 10 m) of the Cassegrain system of the Odessa Astronomical Observatory ^{[14] [15] [16]}
• Celestron 11 "(D = 280 mm, F = 2.8 m, robotic telescope)
• Meade 14 "(D = 356 mm, F = 3.56 m, robotic telescope)

Instruments at Peak Terskol station

• GPS time service
• High-resolution and ultra-high-resolution multi - chamber spectrometer (Rz = 40,000 ... 500,000 ) in the Kude focus of the 2nd telescope
• High Permeability Suspended Spectrometer in the Cassegrain Focus of the 2nd Telescope
• High-speed two-channel photometer for synchronous observations in a network of telescopes
• High - performance nitrogen-cooled CCD image receivers for spectral and photometric observations

• Solar physics
• Physics of the Solar System Bodies

• "Astro-space research in the Elbrus region" (state of the atmosphere) ^[17]
• astrophysical research

• Optical afterglow of gamma-ray bursts
• astroseismology (high-frequency oscillations of stars, observations using the Whole Earth Telescope program)
• Giant planets and their satellites (astrometry and photometry)
• Near-Earth asteroids (astrometry and photometry)
• Comets (state of gas and dust)
• small GSO fragments (space debris)
• Search and research of exoplanets (photometry)
• The Sun ^[18]
• X-ray binary stars, cataclysmic variables
• Searches and observations of TNO

• The observatory conducted daytime observations of Mercury to build maps of the planet's surface in support of the flight of the AMS " Messenger " ^[19] .
• The observatory hosts traditional conferences every 2 years devoted to near-Earth space and asteroid danger ^{[20] [21] [22]} .
• The limiting magnitude for 1 hour before the beginning of 2009 was 23.5 ^m , and after that it was already 25 ^m (CCD camera change).

• Map on wikimapia.org
• International Center for Astronomical, Medical and Ecological Research
• ICAMER, Terskol
• Observational observation schedule (inaccessible link)
• Zeis 2000 Telescope Schedule Information
• History of the observatory
• History and modernity of the observatory Peak Terskol
• Observatory flyer with description (inaccessible link)
• The Terskol Observatory in the Northern Caucasus - an article describing the observatory as of early 2007
• They want to turn the International Astronomical Center into a feldsher point.
• Meeting of Russian and Ukrainian astronomers at Terskol peak
• Presentation of the observatory (inaccessible link)
• Das Pik Terskol Observatorium

PulKON and Odessa Observatory on Terskol:

• Terskol
• New CCD camera on the 2nd telescope
• Expedition to Terskol Peak , Pulkon, May 2, 2007
• Joint expedition - 2007 to the North Caucasus
• Observations of space debris resumed in Simeiz and Terskol
• Restoration work began on the 80-cm Odessa telescope K-800 at the observatory at Terskol peak
• There is a new first light of the Odessa 80 cm telescope on Terskol!
• Another Pulkon expedition to Terskol
• 2009 Expedition to Terskol Peak
• The development of the observational base of JSC ONU in the village. Lighthouses and at the peak of Terskol (inaccessible link)
• About INASAN

Photo Observatory:

• Trip to the conference "Near-Earth Astronomy - 2003" in Terskol
• Photo of the mountains with the designation of the observatory on it
• Photo album of specialization "High Energy Astrophysics" , 2004

Discussion of the observatory on the forums:

• About Terskol
• censure of the observatory at terskol peak
• PIK TERSKOL observatory looking for contacts
• There is the first light of an 80 cm telescope at Terskol

Publications of observations at the Center for Minor Planets:

• Astrometric observations of minor planets

Publications in the NASA ADS Database:

• Search for the word "Terskol"

• Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• INASAN
• Astronomy in Russia
• List of Astronomical Instruments