TÜBİTAK National Observatory (Turkish: TÜBİTAK Ulusal Gozlemevi, TUG) is a ground-based astronomical observatory operated by the TUG Institute of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). Established in 1991, it is located at an altitude of 2,450 m (8,040 ft) in Bakırtepe, around 50 km (31 mi) west-southwest of Antalya in southern Turkey.
![]() TÜBİTAK National Observatory at Bakırtepe, Antalya Province, Turkey | |||||||||||
Organization | Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey | ||||||||||
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Observatory code | A84 ![]() | ||||||||||
Location | Bakırtepe, Antalya, Turkey | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 36°49′27″N 30°20′8″E | ||||||||||
Altitude | 2,450 m (8,040 ft) | ||||||||||
Established | 1997 ![]() | ||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||
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There are five telescopes installed in Bakırtepe:
Scientists led by a Turkish astronomer from Ankara University discovered an exoplanet orbiting the giant star HD 208897, which is located at a distance of some 210 light years from the Earth.[8] The exoplanet has a minimum mass of 1.4 Jupiter masses, and rotates its parent star from about 1.05 AU (156,000,000 km (97,000,000 mi)) away in every 353 days on a nearly circular orbit. The discovery is the result of a ten-year-long research work of precise radial-velocity method carried out by using the Coude Echelle Spectrograph (CES) installed on the 1.5-meter Russian-Turkish Telescope (RTT150). Follow-up observations at the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory (OAO) in Japan and the Ankara University Kreiken Observatory (AUKR) confirmed the discovery, which was made public on August 6, 2017.[9]
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