Old Taipei city astronomical observatory(is an astronomy education science museum in Taipei City now) It Be built up at 圓山 in Taipei City in 1963.Being 1938 at the earliest stage is built up meteorology astronomical observatory in Taipei City by Japanese.But the 4" GOTO telescope be donated by 台灣日日新聞報社.
fig1:1938年日本人建立台北公會堂(現為中山堂)樓頂小天文台(台灣日日新聞報社贈送GOTO 4"屈折赤道儀to台北市役所) fig2:日日新聞報社新聞(1938年) fig3:五藤光學 4"屈折赤道儀.The first astro telescope for amateur education in 1938) fig4:1963年建立台北市立 圓山天文台 fig5:1970年代 台灣最大口徑 西村製作所45公分Cassesgrain 反射赤道儀.(In 70s,the biggest astro telescope 45cm reflect telescope in Taiwan)
[管理者修正] Thank you 曹 永杰 for rare info & photes. I've retouched your photes had blanks.
The observation ground where latitude is low. whose Taiwan was No.1. There is no difference in one of the big telescopes at that time. It is information that obtains the build of the astronomical observatory in Taiwan for the first time. The large-scale telescope seemed by the ASTRO camera that 40cm Cassegrain it might have been few also in Japan. How to the sky in the south to put power is understood well.
Re: 舊台北市天文台
Sieg - 2008/11/09(Sun) 00:33 No.3664
Taiwan and the Japanese Islands are covered with a same stationaly front, and their weather are no good in these days.
In recent years, in Japan, since the weather at night is not good, there are few starry nights.
How is it in Taiwan?
The attached is a photo of one of my handmade telescopes. All the mirrors of my handmade telescopes are made in Taiwan. I am satisfied with the excellent accuracy of these mirrors which were made by GSO.
The Taiwan's night sky is also very bright by now.Astro-photograph have to go to more than 2000 meters high mountains now.There are 台中縣大雪山,南投縣合歡山(鳶峰),嘉義縣玉山(塔塔加)etc....Because of 大雪山 compare nearer by 台北市.So we are often go to 大雪山 these years... We also have Taiwan's mountains light-pollutions investigation...http://familystar.org.tw/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=45&topic=2982.0
The Taiwan's night sky is also very bright by now.Astro-photograph have to go to more than 2000 meters high mountains now.There are 台中縣大雪山,南投縣合歡山(鳶峰),嘉義縣玉山(塔塔加)etc....Because of 大雪山 compare nearer by 台北市.So we are often going to 大雪山 these years... There are some 大雪山 images for reference... fig1:觀測地點 fig2:住宿木屋
Re: 舊台北市天文台
Sieg - 2008/11/12(Wed) 23:30 No.3669
I did downloading of a pamphlet of the 大雪山 national park from a Taiwan web site. Then I found 船形山 and 鞍馬山 in a map of it． Their same Chinese character name mountains are in Japan.
And there is 大雪山 also in Japan. On Google map, you can find it easily at the center of the Hokkaido Island in Japan. We can watch excellent starry sky there as same as the Taiwan 大雪山.
