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{{Infobox observatory
|name         = TÜBİTAK National Observatory<br />{{small|TÜBITAK Ulusal Gozlemevi}}
|image        = Tübitak Ulusal Gözlemevi.jpg
|caption      = TÜBİTAK National Observatory at Bakırtepe, Antalya Province, Turkey
|organization = Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
|location     = Bakırtepe, Antalya, [[Place:Turkey|Turkey]]
|coords       = {{Coord|36|49|27|N|30|20|8|E|type:landmark_region:TR|display=inline,title}}
|altitude     = {{convert|2450|m|ft|abbr=on}}
|weather      = 
|established  = 
|closed       = 
|website      = {{URL|http://www.tug.tubitak.gov.tr/}}
|telescope1_name = RTT150
|telescope1_type = [[Astronomy:Cassegrain reflector|Cassegrain]]
|telescope2_name = T100 (ACE RC1.0)
|telescope2_type = [[Astronomy:Ritchey–Chrétien telescope|Ritchey–Chrétien]]
|telescope3_name = T60 (OMI RC06)
|telescope3_type = Ritchey–Chrétien
|telescope4_name = YT40 (Meade LX200GPS)
|telescope4_type = [[Astronomy:Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope|Schmidt–Cassegrain]]
|telescope5_name = ROTSEIIID
|telescope5_type = [[Astronomy:Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment|Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment]]
}}

'''TÜBİTAK National Observatory''' ({{lang-tr|TÜBİTAK Ulusal Gozlemevi}}, TUG) is a [[Astronomy:Observatory#Ground-based observatories|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 {{convert|2450|m|ft|abbr=on}} in Bakırtepe, around {{convert|50|km|mi|abbr=on}} west-southwest of Antalya in southern [[Place:Turkey|Turkey]].

There are five telescopes installed in Bakırtepe:
* RTT150 - Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope (formerly AZT-22) (2001)<ref name="tug1"/><ref name="hi1"/>
* T100 (ACE RC1.0) - 1.0 m [[Astronomy:Ritchey–Chrétien telescope|Ritchey–Chrétien telescope]] (2009)<ref name="tug2"/>
* T60 (OMI RC06) - 0.6 m Ritchey–Chrétien telescope (2008)<ref name="tug3"/>
* YT40 (Meade LX200GPS) - 0.4 m [[Astronomy:Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope|Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope]] (2006)<ref name="tug4"/><ref name="hi2"/>
* ROTSEIIID [[Astronomy:Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment|Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment]]<ref name="tug5"/>

==Discoveries==
Scientists led by a Turkish astronomer from Ankara University  discovered an [[Astronomy:Exoplanet|exoplanet]] orbiting the giant star HD 208897, which is located at a distance of some 210 [[Light year|light year]]s from the Earth.<ref name="ds1"/> The exoplanet has a minimum mass of 1.4 [[Astronomy:Jupiter mass|Jupiter mass]]es, and rotates its parent star from about 1.05 AU ({{cvt|156000000|km}}) away in every 353 days on a nearly circular orbit. The discovery is the result of a ten-year-long research work of precise [[Astronomy:Doppler spectroscopy|radial-velocity method]] carried out by using the [[Astronomy:Spectrograph#Echelle spectrograph|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.<ref name="pho"/>

==References==
{{Reflist|30em|refs=
<ref name="tug1">{{cite web |url=http://www.tug.tubitak.gov.tr/rtt150_ozellikler.php |publisher=TUG-TÜBİTAK |title=RTT150 Teleskobu |language=Turkish |accessdate=2013-02-18 }}</ref>
<ref name="tug2">{{cite web |url=http://www.tug.tubitak.gov.tr/t100_ozellikler.php |publisher=TUG-TÜBİTAK |title=T100 Teleskobu |language=Turkish |accessdate=2013-02-18 }}</ref>
<ref name="tug3">{{cite web |url=http://www.tug.tubitak.gov.tr/t60_ozellikler.php |publisher=TUG-TÜBİTAK |title=T60 Teleskobu |language=Turkish |accessdate=2013-02-18 }}</ref>
<ref name="tug4">{{cite web |url=http://www.tug.tubitak.gov.tr/yt40_ozellikler.php |publisher=TUG-TÜBİTAK |title=YT40 Teleskobu (2006-2008) |language=Turkish |accessdate=2013-02-18 }}</ref>
<ref name="tug5">{{cite web |url=http://www.tug.tubitak.gov.tr/rotseiiid.php |publisher=TUG-TÜBİTAK |title=ROTSEIIID Teleskobu |language=Turkish |accessdate=2013-02-18 }}</ref>
<ref name="hi1">{{cite web |url=http://hea.iki.rssi.ru/AZT22/ENG/index.html |publisher=Head Iki |title=RTT150 Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope |accessdate=2013-02-18 }}</ref>
<ref name="hi2">{{cite web |url=http://meade.com/lx200 |publisher=Meade Instruments |title=LX200 Series |access-date=2013-02-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130119073800/http://www.meade.com/lx200 |archive-date=2013-01-19 }}</ref>
<ref name="pho">{{cite web |url=https://phys.org/news/2017-08-jupiter-mass-planet-orbiting-giant-star.html |publisher=PHYS ORG |title=Jupiter-mass planet orbiting giant star discovered |author=Nowakowski, Tomasz report |date=2017-08-10 |accessdate=2017-08-21 }}</ref>
<ref name="ds1">{{cite news |url=https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/2017/08/14/turkish-scientists-discover-a-planet-for-the-first-time |newspaper=Daily Sabah |title=Turkish scientists discover a planet for the first time |date=2017-08-13 |accessdate=2017-08-21 }}</ref>
}}


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