Primary Mirror Diameter: 150 cm
System Focal Length m Scale Fov(ang) arcmin Fov(lin) mm Cassegrain F/3 4.52 45"/mm 60 80 Cassegrain F/7.7 11.64 18"/mm 88 300 with corrector 18"/mm 26 90 without corrector Cassegrain F/17.3 26.01 8"/mm 13 100 with corrector Cassegrain F/16 9"/mm 4 30 Coude F/48 72.26 3"/mm 230 arcsec 80 Guider: F/10 3.59 76 Finder: F/4.2 0.50 240 Instruments Cassegrain focus:
- An imaging CCD system with SDSU controller. The peak Q.E is above 90% at visible wavelenghts with high values at blue.
- Imaging CCD, ST8 of Santa Barbara Group.
- Faint Object Spectrometer and Camera, TFOSC, being constructed at Copenhagen University Observatory (CUO).
Coude focus:
- Design of a Coude Spectrometer is underway by Kazan Group.
- DEFPOS Fabry Perrot Spectrometer, to be operational by 2003.