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Muiños, J. L.; Belizón, F.; Vallejo, M.; Mallamaci, C. C.; Pérez, J. A.; Marmolejo, L. F.; Navarro, J. L.; Sedeño, J. A.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy in Latin America, Second Meeting on Astrometry in Latin America and Third Brazilian Meeting on Fundamental Astronomy, held 2-5 September, 2002. Edited by R. Teixeira, N.V. Leister, V.A.F. Martin, and P. Benevides-Soares. ADeLA Publications Series, vol. 1, no. 1, 2003, p.77-84.
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Description
The San Fernando automatic meridian circle (CMASF) is a meridian
telescope built by Grubb-Parsons in 1948 fully automated between 1987
and 1995. In 1996 was moved from the Real Instituto y Observatorio de la
Armada (ROA) in San Fernando to the Carlos U. Cesco (CUC) mountain
observatory in San Juan (Argentine). The CUC is owned by the
Observatorio Astronómico Félix Aguilar (OAFA) of National
University of San Juan. In 1999 the telescope was provided with a CCD
camera borrowed by the Copenhagen University Observatory (CUO). Between
March and October of 2001 a campaign of observations of Pluto, Neptune
and its satellite Triton was carried out with the CMASF. They were
observed every five days while their transits through the CUC meridian
happened during the night. In total 12 transits of Pluto, 15 of Neptune
and 16 of Triton were got during that period. In this paper we present
the results of the campaign.