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Adaptive Optics: How the TROIA System Corrects Atmospheric Turbulence

6 September 2026

Atmospheric turbulence is one of the main limits of ground-based telescopes. How TROIA, the adaptive optics system of DAG400, works and what its published specifications are.

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DAG's Focal-Plane Instruments: KORAY, DIRAC, PLACID and DAGOS

3 September 2026

The instruments that turn a telescope's light into data sit at its focal plane. The roles and key specifications of four instruments built for DAG400.

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Observing Infrastructure at the TÜBİTAK National Observatory (TUG)

31 August 2026

Site, sky conditions and the RTT150, TUG100 and TUG060 telescopes of the TÜBİTAK National Observatory, 2,550 metres up on Bakırlıtepe near Antalya.

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