Víctor M. Blanco Telescope
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Víctor M. Blanco Telescope | |
| Organization | NOAO |
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| Location | Cerro Tololo, Chile |
| Coordinates | 30°10′10.78″S 70°48′23.49″W / 30.1696611°S 70.8065250°WCoordinates: 30°10′10.78″S 70°48′23.49″W / 30.1696611°S 70.8065250°W |
| Altitude | 2207m |
| Wavelength | optical |
| Built | 1974, completed 1976[1] |
| Telescope style | reflector |
| Diameter | 4.0m |
| Collecting area | 10.014m2 |
| Mounting | equatorial, Ritchey-Chrétien |
| Website | http://www.ctio.noao.edu/telescopes/4m/4m.html |
The Víctor M. Blanco Telescope, also known as the Blanco 4m, is a 4m telescope located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile. Commissioned in 1974 and completed in 1976, this telescope is similar to the Mayall 4m telescope located on Kitt Peak.[2][3][4] In 1995 it was dedicated and named in honour of Víctor Manuel Blanco, the Puerto Rican astronomer.[5]
The newly installed DECam (Dark Energy Camera) on the telescope is the main-research instrument in the Dark Energy Survey, First light of DECam was in September 2012.[6][7]
See also
- List of observatories
- List of largest optical reflecting telescopes
References
- ↑ Great Telescopes. (2003). In Atlas of the Universe. Retrieved from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/philipsuniverse/great_telescopes
- ↑ Freeman, Ira Henry (October 28, 1979). "An Astronomical Journey in Arizona". The New York Times (Late City Edition ed.). p. 377. ISSN 0362-4331.
- ↑ http://www.lsstmail.org/noao/noaonews/mar00/node28.html
- ↑ Gregory, B; Abbott, T (July 22, 2008), The Blanco 4m Telescope, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
- ↑ Brief History of THE CERRO TOLOLO INTER-AMERICAN OBSERVATORY
- ↑ Dark Energy Camera and Dark Energy Survey:photos, videos & graphics fnal.gov
- ↑ Berkeley Lab sensors enable first light for the dark energy camera phys.org Retrieved 2012-09-18