Lulin Observatory

• LOT Cassegrain telescope (D=1-m, f/8)
• SLT R-C telescope (D=0.40-m, f/8.8) by RC Optical Systems{{cite web |url=http://luss.y234.cn/overview.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-02-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129221753/http://luss.y234.cn/overview.htm |archive-date=29 January 2009 }} or 76-cm Super Light Telescope (SLT)
• Four TAOS robotic telescopes (D=0.50-m, f/1.9)

• Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey (TAOS)
• Lulin Emission Line Imaging Survey (LELIS)
• Exoearth Discovery & Exploration Network EDEN{{Cite journal|last1=Gibbs|first1=Aidan|last2=Bixel|first2=Alex|last3=Rackham|first3=Benjamin V.|last4=Apai|first4=Dániel|last5=Schlecker|first5=Martin|last6=Espinoza|first6=Néstor|last7=Mancini|first7=Luigi|last8=Chen|first8=Wen-Ping|last9=Henning|first9=Thomas|last10=Gabor|first10=Paul|last11=Boyle|first11=Richard|date=2020-04-01|title=EDEN: Sensitivity Analysis and Transiting Planet Detection Limits for Nearby Late Red Dwarfs|journal=The Astronomical Journal|volume=159|issue=4|pages=169|doi=10.3847/1538-3881/ab7926|arxiv=2002.10017|bibcode=2020AJ....159..169G|issn=0004-6256|hdl=10150/641021|s2cid=211258746|hdl-access=free |doi-access=free }}

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The Lulin Sky Survey searched for near-Earth objects from 2006 to 2009. The Lulin Sky Survey Telescope,{{cite web|title=Lulin Observatory|url=http://www.astro.ncu.edu.tw/observatory/index_e.php|publisher=Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University|access-date=20 November 2015}} a {{convert|16|in|cm|adj=on}} Ritchey–Chrétien telescope with a field of view of 27 arcminutes, was operated remotely from mainland China, with robotic software developed in-house.{{cite web|last1=Yang|first1=T.C.|last2=Ye|first2=Q.|last3=Lin|first3=H.C.|last4=Lin|first4=C.S.|last5=Ip|first5=W.H|title=Introduction of Lulin Sky Survey (LUSS)|url=http://www.lulin.ncu.edu.tw/Research/CAST2006_LUSS_20060426_v0[1].50.ppt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510100623/http://www.lulin.ncu.edu.tw/Research/CAST2006_LUSS_20060426_v0%5b1%5d.50.ppt|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 May 2017|publisher=National Central University|access-date=20 November 2015|format=slideshow|date=23 April 2006}} In addition to searching for new objects, the survey refined the orbits of known minor planets and comets, and performed photometric analysis of a subset of objects.{{cite journal | last1 = Ye | first1 = Quanzhi | last2 = Lin | first2 = H. | date = September 2009 | title = An Overview of Lulin Sky Survey | journal = AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts #41 | volume = 41 | pages = 34.09 | bibcode = 2009DPS....41.3409Y | publisher = American Astronomical Society }} The principal investigator, student Quan-Zhi Ye of Sun Yat-sen University, was awarded the 2007 Shoemaker NEO Grant to develop the project.{{cite web|last1=Betts|first1=Bruce|title=Sky survey grant helps lead to a space science career|url=http://www.planetary.org/blogs/bruce-betts/2015/0114-sky-survey-meteor-studies.html|publisher=The Planetary Society|access-date=20 November 2015|date=16 January 2015}} Ye later identified a comet from images collected in July 2007 by collaborator Chi Sheng Lin; the unusual retrograde comet, formally named C/2007 N3, became known as Comet Lulin. It made its closest approach to Earth in February 2009.{{cite news|last1=Rao|first1=Joe|title=Newfound Comet Lulin to Grace Night Skies|url=http://www.space.com/1004-newfound-comet-lulin-grace-night-skies.html|access-date=20 November 2015|work=Space.com|date=6 February 2009}} Over the course of the survey, 781 new objects were discovered, including Comet Lulin and three fragments of comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann. The LUSS project benefited from its location at a longitude with few other observatories looking for minor planets.

• List of astronomical observatories

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• W.S. Tsay, B. C. Chen, K.H. Chang, et al., 2001, “[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2001ASPC..246..299T The NCU Lu-Lin Observatory]”, in Proceedings of the IAU Colloquium 183 “Small-Telescope on Global Scales”, eds. W.P. Chen, C. Lemme, B. Paczynski, ASP.

• [http://www.lulin.ncu.edu.tw/ Official Website]
• [http://www.lulin.ncu.edu.tw/english/index.htm English page]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090126083300/http://luss.y234.cn/ Lulin Sky Survey (LUSS)]

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