Telescopio Carlos Sánchez
The Telescopio Carlos Sánchez is a 1.52 m Dall-Kirkham type infrared telescope with an equatorial mount and an f/13.8 Cassegrain focus. It is located at Observatorio del Teide on Tenerife, and is operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. It was built in 1971 by the United Kingdom and has been used for a wide range of infrared observational programmes, from large-scale Galactic Centre mapping to stellar oscillations. • Illustration — The telescope The telescope was built by the United Kingdom but was transferred to the Spanish in 1983.
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The Telescopio Carlos Sánchez is a 1.52 m Dall-Kirkham type infrared telescope with an equatorial mount and an f/13.8 Cassegrain focus. It is located at Observatorio del Teide on Tenerife, and is operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. It was built in 1971 by the United Kingdom and has been used for a wide range of infrared observational programmes, from large-scale Galactic Centre mapping to stellar oscillations. • Illustration — The telescope The telescope was built by the United Kingdom but was transferred to the Spanish in 1983.
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The name of the telescope was adopted in honour of Prof. Carlos Sánchez Magro, Astrophysics Professor at the University of La Laguna. Since 2018 this telescope has operated the MuSCAT2 instrument, a four color camera. The first light MuSCAT2 was in August 2017, and science operations started in January 2019. The camera is specially designed to engage in simultaneous capture of an image in four colour bands, " g (400 to 550 nm), r (550 to 700 nm), i (700 to 820 nm), and z s (820 to 920 nm)." This telescope was originally called the Infrared Flux Collector (IRFC) when it was completed in 1972.
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2016
Commissioning and First Observations with Wide FastCam at the Telescopio Carlos Sánchez digitised by DataCite (arXiv).
2018
MuSCAT2: four-color Simultaneous Camera for the 1.52-m Telescopio Carlos Sánchez digitised by DataCite (arXiv).
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Commissioning and First Observations with Wide FastCam at the Telescopio Carlos Sánchez (2016) — DataCite (arXiv)
MuSCAT2: four-color Simultaneous Camera for the 1.52-m Telescopio Carlos Sánchez (2018) — DataCite (arXiv)
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- 1.Leverington, David. Observatories and Telescopes of Modern Times. Cambridge University Press. 2017. 978-0-521-89993-2.
- 2.Narita, Norio. MuSCAT2: four-color simultaneous camera for the 1.52-m Telescopio Carlos Sánchez. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. 5. 1. December 2018. 2329-4124.
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MuSCAT2: four-color simultaneous camera for the 1.52-m Telescopio Carlos Sánchez, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 2018Crossref registry
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