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Observatory![]() ![]() Soon after the CCD camera was bought, small collective of people interested in CCD observation arose. This collective consists of Tomas Havlik, Marek Kolasa and Lukas Kral (collaborators of the observatory). Later, Tomas Hynek and Martin Vilasek joined us. Our work is supported by RNDr. Tomas Graf, the director of the Obs. & Plan. of J. Palisa. A Little History... The CCD camera was bought in 1996 and in summer of that year we started to learn how to use it. So we mostly took images of deep-sky objects. As the time went, we got interested in CCD photometry of variable stars. First such observations were done in summer 1997. Our first aim was to join the worldwide group of observers called CBA (Center for Backyard Astrophysics). This organization is monitoring dwarf novae during their outbursts. But after short time, it was obvious, that our telescopes are too small to observe such faint objects, even with CCD. So we started to observe an other type of variables - brighter eclipsing binaries, which are in the observing program of B.R.N.O. (Brno Regional Network of Observers). Occasionally we collaborate with the international network of observers called VSNET. Mainly thanks to this collaboration, we are co-authors of several scientific papers. We also started to observe selected excentric eclipsing binaries from observing programme of dr. M. Wolf from the Charles University. |