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| Location | Promiod, Aosta valley, Italy |
| Latitude | 45° 47' 09" North |
| Longitude | 07° 36' 11" East |
| Telescope type | Meade Instruments Schmidt-Cassegrain 14" LX200 GPS |
| Focal length | 3556 mm |
| Diameter | 355.6 mm |
| Focal ratio | 10 |
| Diffraction disk | 0.79 arcsecond at 560 nm corresponding to 0.013664 mm on the focal plane |
| Comments |
| The telescope is really good. It was carefully aligned to the North Celestial Pole by using the Bigourdan's method. Tracking accuracy with Periodic Error Correction is about 1 arcsecond. It's possible to take exposures of ten minutes without trailing stars. Typical FWHM values for star disks are around 3" with images as good as 2". |