BRASS imaging is made at three observatories located in Brazil:

The robotic CEAMIG-REA Observatory is located at the Brazilian town of Belo Horizonte and is fully operated on a remote basis. CEAMIG-REA’s equipment includes a Meade 12” LX-200 telescope, a ST-7XME CCD camera, filter wheels and accessories. Telescope control is effected with ACP software by DC3 Dreams plus the special TAO software, developed by Brazilian amateur Paulo Holvorcem to optimize the observing runs. CCD images are processed using Maxim DL/CCD and blinking is effected with Visual Pinpoint , also by DC3 Dreams.

One typical observing night will typically produce some 500 galaxy images, given weather is favorable. Images are blinked, usually on the very first day, against our own library images and POSS images. Once some suspect appears in any of the images, several tests are performed to check for image artifacts, asteroids, variable stars, etc, before any confirmation image is made next night.

Wykrota Observatory-CEAMIG is located at Serra da Piedade, a mountain chain about one hour drive from Belo Horizonte. Equipment there includes a Meade 12” LX-200 scope, a ST7-E camera, filter wheel and accessories.

The Orion-REA Observatory is located at the small town of Mairinque, about one hour drive from downtown São Paulo. Its equipment includes two scopes: one Meade 12” LX-200 and one 14” Celestron on a CGE mount, two SBIG ST-7XME CCD cameras, filter wheels and accessories. Although still not robotic, Orion-REA observatory works fully on a automatic mode.