Science

The observatory has been used to confirm several exoplanets as part of the KELT exoplanet transit search program and has been accepted as a member of NASA’s TESS Follow-up Observing Program. In addition to filters used for visible wavelength imaging, the observatory’s ZWO ASI6200MM Pro full frame CMOS camera has Sloan Digital Sky Survey filters g’ r’ i’ z’ for photometric use.

Imaging and photometric filters
The Palomar Transient Factory project detected on August 24, 2011 a supernova in M101, initially designated as PTF11kly, later SN 2011fe. This series of images shows M101 before and during the event. Astrobin link with image details.