GREGOR Solar Telescope
| Organisation | KIS, AIP, MPS, Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen[1] |
|---|---|
| Location(s) | Teide Observatory, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain |
| Coordinates | 28°18′06″N 16°30′39″W / 28.3018°N 16.5107°WCoordinates: 28°18′06″N 16°30′39″W / 28.3018°N 16.5107°W |
| Wavelength | 350 nm to 2.0 µm[2] |
| First light | March 12, 2009[3][4] |
| Telescope style | Gregorian |
| Diameter | 1.5meter |
| Angular resolution | 0.08″ at 500 nm[2] |
| Focal length | 55.6m (f/38)[2] |
| Mounting | Alt-az[2] |
| Dome | Open, retractable dome[4] |
| Website |
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The GREGOR solar telescope is a 1.5-meter solar telescope located at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. It replaces the older Gregory Coudé Telescope and was inaugurated on May 21, 2012.[1][5]
GREGOR is the third-largest solar telescope in the world, after the Big Bear Observatory and the McMath-Pierce solar telescope. It is aimed at observing the solar photosphere and chromosphere at visible and infrared wavelengths. GREGOR sports a high-order adaptive optics (AO) system with a 256-actuator deformable mirrors and a 156-subaperture Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor. Efforts are underway to implement multi-conjugate AO in 2014.[2]
See also
- Vacuum Tower Telescope
- Swedish Solar Telescope
- Dutch Open Telescope
- Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
References
- 1 2 "GREGOR Telescope". KIS website. Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "GREGOR Optical Design". KIS website. Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
- ↑ First light was obtained with a 1-meter test-mirror due to manufacturing issues with the main mirror
- 1 2 "GREGOR telescope: Zooming in on the sun". phys.org website. phys.org. May 10, 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
- ↑ "GREGOR". IAC website. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
Sources
- "GREGOR - A New Telescope for Solar Physics". AIP website. Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
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