Telescope

• Technical information on the telescope
• Telescope Control System (TCS)

• Sideport Operation

• Pictures of the telescope adapter

• Default telescope focus and balance for different instruments

• Telescope Drawings T01, T02, T03 and T04

Instrument information

• Overview of instrumentation

• Core instruments:
  • ALFOSC: UV-optical imaging, polarimetry and low-resolution spectroscopy
  • NOTCam: NIR imaging and low-resolution spectroscopy
  • FIES: High-resolution, high-stability optical spectroscopy
  • MOSCA: High-resolution, high-efficiency UV-optical imaging
  • StanCam: Standby CCD imager

• Visitors instruments (limited access):
  • DIPol-UF - Three-band high-speed polarimeter
  • SOFIN: The Soviet-Finnish optical high-resolution spectrograph

• To be retired after P71: instrument not applied for for more than 5 years:
  • MOSCA: High-resolution, high-efficiency UV-optical imaging

• Former instruments:
  • LuckyCam: "Lucky" imager
  • PolCor: "Lucky" polarimeter/coronagraph
  • SIRCA: The Stockholm InfraRed CAmera
  • TurPol: Photo-polarimeter

• Exposure Time Calculator
• Observing overheads

• Optical filters
• Telescope focus offsets for optical filters
• NIR filters

• Detectors
• Detector Quality Monitoring

• Lists of all Sequencer commands and scripts

• FITS headers and software

Related documents

• Development projects