HinOTORI is a new telescope supported by an international
collaboration project between China and Japan. It is a 50 centimeter
telescope equipped with simultaneous three-color imagers (u',
R
C, and I
C bands). It is located at Ali
Observatory at an altitude of 5100m. Thanks to the high altitude and
extreme dryness, Ali site is one of the most suitable sites for
optical astrometry. HinOTORI telescope aims at detecting optical
transients such as the counterparts of gravitational wave (GW)
sources, supernovae, gamma-ray bursts (GRB) and so on. This paper
describes the site information, design of simultaneous three-color
optical layout, system instruments and whole control system. We also
report some telescope characterisations for three bands
(u'/R
C/I
C) respectively, such as Hartmann constant
(0.49”/0.56”/0.60”), best focus position (3.922/3.920/3.903 mm),
PSF FWHM size (3.755/3.328/3.167pixels), total transmittance and
limiting magnitude (15.69/17.57/17.05mag, 10 σ 30 seconds
exposure time). With different airmass observation data, the
atmospheric extinction coefficients of three bands
(0.366/0.061/0.026) were also derived.