In the summer of 1996 a fourth telescope went into operation at Tashkent in Uzbekistan, Central Asia, but before that NTHU's astrophysics laboratory had already begun publishing papers on the project in astronomy periodicals.
九六年夏天，第四套望遠鏡裝在中亞烏茲別克運轉，之前日震實驗室已陸續在天文季刊上發表相關論文。