
This image of Orion over the Physics tower was taken from the observatory site. The lighted windows on the 4th floor of the tower belong to the Astrophysics Group.
Astrophysics facilities and resources
Local facilities
The Astrophysics Group makes use of a number of on-campus facilities which supplement the relationships we have with a number of renowned international observatories and space telescopes.
High Performance Computing
The Astrophysics Group makes extensive use of the University of ·¬ارتسئµ for running numerical simulations. The facility was officially launched in September 2017 and comprises over 200 compute nodes (each compute node is the equivalent of a powerful server). For more information about this facility, please email the ISCA support team.
For even more demanding applications the Astrophysics Group has been awarded time on the national .
University of ·¬ارتسئµ Observatory
Astrophysics maintains an on-site observatory for undergraduate teaching purposes. The observatory is remotely operated with a computer-controlled mount and dome, 14" Schmidt-Cassegrain, CCD and filters, and web-based submission of observing projects. This provides a state-of-the-art observing experience which mirrors that of professional astronomers.
Contact
All questions about the observatory should be directed to astroenquiries@exeter.ac.uk.
Observatory location:
50آ° 44' 14.9" N 3آ° 32' 8.0 W"
StarAlt: -3 32 8.0 50 44 14.9 50
Dome:
Pulsar 2.7m
Telescope:
14†Celestron Edge HD
Astro-Physics 1100GTO mount
Instruments:
SBIG ST-10XME - 2184x1472 pixels with a size of 6.8 خ¼m
13.7' x 20.5' FOV with a pixel size of 0.56"/pix
Filters:
Sloan G,R,I
Bessell B,V,R
SII,OIII and Ha
International facilities
Space telescopes
Large telescopes
Medium-size telescopes
Radio telescopes
- James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
- , UK high resolution radio astronomy facility
Resources
Resources we produce
- - Animations from theoretical calculations of star and planet formation.
- - Models of young accreting brown dwarf disk systems.
- - Photometric catalogues of young stellar associations and clusters.
- - A new maximum likelihood statistic.
- - A radiation transport and hydrodynamics code.
Research-related links
- (CDS)
- (ADS)
- (our funding council)