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5 telescopes

The TiDO (Time Domain Observatory at Ali) is composed of 4 wide-field telescopes and 1 high-resolution telecope. It is dedicated on searching for transiting exoplanets, Super-Nova, Kuiper belt objects and other transient events.

Data released!

The AST3 (Antarctica Survey Telecope times 3 ) telecopes have been installed at Dome A, the highest point of Antarctica plateau since 2012. Using these telescopes, we have been surveyed a series of large fields within the Southern Sphere since 2016. The first data release is valid now.

Data released!

18,729 catalogs and 26,578 lightcurves

This data set

is acquired in 2016 by the AST3-II telescope at Chinese Kunlun Station which is an remote observatory at Dome A, the heighest point upon the Antarctica Plateau. The major part of this data release includes 18,729 catalogs and 26,578 lightcurves which have been divided into subdirectories labelled by their field names. A table of variables found within our data is also presented. See Readme for more information. The details on data reduction processes are presented in Huizhang et al. 2018a and Huizhang et al. 2018b.

30cm high-resolution telescope installed at XinJiang Nanshan Observatory.

2015.11

18 cm wide-field telescope, 30 cm wide-field telescope and 30cm high-resolution telescope were installed at Ali Observatory, Tibet.

2017.12

Another two 30 cm wide-field telescopes were installed at Ali Observatory, Tibet

2018.6