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Manchester Occulting Mask Imager (MOMI)


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Designed and built by: Manchester University.

Description: MOMI is a coronograph with an etalon-type intererencial filter, which allows cube images like Taurus. This device, when combined with the Cassegrain or Ritchey-Chretien foci of large telescopes, is dedicated to the imagery of faint-line emission regions around bright central sources.

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More photos of this instrument: http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/archive/int/instruments.html



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Last modified: 13 December 2010