William Herschel
Telescope
Galaxy Halpha Fabry-Perot System (GHaFaS)
First light: 6 July 2007.
De-commissioned:
Participating organisations:
Université de Montréal, with
partners at the Observatoire de Marseille and the Instituto de Astrofísica de
Canarias.
Description:
It is a new generation Fabry-Perot interferometer,
whose
chief and powerful advantage over traditional systems which have been used on
telescopes is the
high sensitivity photon counting detector.
Logo:
More information:
More photos of this instrument: http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/archive/wht/instruments.html
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