In addition to Chou Dean-yi, NTHU physics professor Chang Hsiang-kuang, and Professor Sun Ming-tsung of the mechanical engineering department at Chang Gung University also joined the TON project team. Thus the design, manufacture, assembly and testing of the telescopes could all be completed independently in Taiwan, prior to the instruments being shipped to their host observatories around the world.
除了周定一，清大物理系教授張祥光與長庚大學機械系教授孫明宗也加入日震團隊，使得望遠鏡的設計、製造、組合與測試，能獨立在國內完成，再運到各地觀測站。