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Design of the 4.2m Herschel Telescope and Instruments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Paul Murdin
Paul Murdin*
Affiliation:
Royal Greenwich Observatory, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 1RP

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The UK Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), through the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO), is installing on the island of La Palma, a 4.2 m altazimuth telescope, as part of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, at an altitude of 2300 m in the Canary Islands. The telescope, known as the William Herschel Telescope, is fully designed and manufacture has begun. It is due for completion in the mid-1980's. The telescope, dome and instrument design have all interacted with one another, particularly in the search for economy. Among the proposed instruments is a novel collimator-less spectrograph.

Type
Section I: Optical Telescopes, Existing And Planned
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 67: Instrumentation for Astronomy with Large Optical Telescopes , 1982 , pp. 49 - 59
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1982

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