First light (at ING): 1 May 1989.
Designed and built by: IAC
Description: HEXAFLEX is an upgrade of FLEX. It consists of two fiber
bundles mounted simultaneously on the spectrograph, which allow one to
change the spatial and spectral resolution without any modification in
the spectrograph´s configuration. At the focal plane, the 61 fibers of
each bundle are arranged in a hexagonal lattice, which permits regular
and symmetrical mapping.
Time allocations:
Nights scheduled since semester 2007B
Research impact:
Publications (6 from ING paper count)