93 Celestron - 14 This is a four years project. In this project, we will add a solar telescope, a spectrograph, and a few small teaching telescopes to the existing facilities. We will also install a Celestron 14 telescope, which was used during the Lulin site survey mission, on loan from NCU. After all the new and borrowed instruments are in place, the National Cheng Kung University will have a small but full functional astronomical observatory. In the next stage, we will make the observatory network-ready. With the proper networking hardware and software, we will turn the NCKUO into a fully remote controllable observatory. During the first year, we will install a digital observatory, add new astronomy courses to our curricula, and improve the quality of the astronomical teaching in our department. In the second year, we will acquire most of the planned instruments, fine-tune the existing equipments, and improve the fluency of students in using these facilities. In short, we try to turn the NCKUO into an excellent training base for users of the Lulin observatory. In the third year, we will try to link Lulin, Kenting and NCKU observatories together and build a intra -Taiwan observatory network. In the final and forth year, we intend to open the NCKUO to the colleges in Taiwan, especially to the other participating universities of the Excellence in Fundamental Education Initiative. Using the network, the users can take advantage of the favorable local weather condition in the southern Taiwan during fall and winter seasons to perform astronomical observations. We also intend to open the NCKUO to the elementary, junior and senior high schools teachers. We want the NCKUO to be come an important center of advance learning for grade-school teachers. 1
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