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Location: |
Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain |
| Property: |
INAF |
| Operated by: |
Fundación Galileo Galilei - INAF |
| Operative since: |
1997 |
| Full address: |
Fundación Galileo Galilei - INAF
Rambla José Ana Fernández Pérez, 7
38712 Breña Baja, TF - Spain
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| Description: |
The Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) is a 3.58m altazimuth telescope with active optics control of the primary and secondary mirrors. A flat, rotating tertiary mirror feeds two opposite Nasmyth foci where the following instruments are permanently mounted and available to the users.
-. DOLORES: a multimode optical instrument with 10'x 10' fov allowing long slit and multi-object spectroscopy with resolving power from 300 to 7000.
-. SARG: a high resolution optical spectrometer with resolving power up to 160,000.
-. NICS: a multimode infrared instrument with 4'x 4' fov allowing long slit spectroscopy with resolving power from 50 to 2000 and polarimetric capabilities.
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| Further details: |
http://www.tng.iac.es |
| More information: |
http://www.tng.iac.es |
| Funding sources: |
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Italy |
| Contact Person: |
| Name: |
Molinari, Emilio |
Role/Function: |
TNG Director |
| Email: |
molinari@tng.iac.es |
Phone: |
+34 922 433671 |
| Fax: |
+34 922 420508 |
Institution: |
Fundación Galileo Galilei - INAF |
| Full Address: |
Fundación Galileo Galilei - INAF
Rambla José Ana Fernández Pérez, 7
38712 Breña Baja, TF - Spain
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