Equipment
The observatory is home to the Vainu Bappu Telescope, the largest telescope in Asia. It has a diameter of 2.3 meters and was first used in 1986. Along with the Vainu Bappu telescope, the observatory has two other telescopes: A 1 meter Zeiss manufactured and another 75 centimeter cassegrain reflector currently being refurbished. The observatory also has a Fabry–Pérot interferometer.
- Technical details
- Primary Mirror Diameter: 234 cm
- Prime focus: f/3.25 with a scale of 27".1/mm
- Cassegrain focus: f/13 with a scale of 6".8/mm
- Guiding: remote, manual guiding
- Instruments available
- At PRIME focus:
- Imaging Camera with a 3-element Wynne corrector
- At CASSEGRAIN focus:
- Medium resolution Spectroploarimeter
- Medium resolution Optometrics Research Spectrograph (OMRS)
- At PRIME focus:
- Detector
- 1024x1024 pixels TEK CCD, with a pixel size of 24 micrometres
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