WIYN Observatory

Infobox Telescope
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name = WIYN Telescope


caption = The WIYN Telescope. Photo by NOAO / AURA / NSF.
organization = WIYN Consortium
location = Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona, USA
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wavelength = optical
built = Completed 1994
website = http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/
style = reflector
diameter = Blank diameter: 3.51155 m (138.25") / Diameter to bevels: 3.49885 m (137.75")
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area = 9.6m²
focal_length = f/ 1.75
mounting = alt/az
dome = Truncated Rhombi-cube octahedronThe WIYN Observatory is owned and operated by the WIYN Consortium. Its telescope, a 3.5-meter instrument, is the newest and second largest telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Most of the capital costs of the observatory were provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University, and Yale University, while the National Optical Astronomy Observatory provides most of the operating services.

tandard Instrumentation

HYDRA: HYDRA is a multiobject spectrograph using fiber optics positioned in the focal plane to allow up to 100 separate objects to be observed at a time. The light is guided to a spectrograph room under the main telescope where a CCD camera records the spectrum of each object. The field of view is ~1 degree. [http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/]

MiniMo: MiniMo is a CCD camera consisting of two 2048x4096 pixel chips, with a field of view of 9.6 arcminutes. The two separate chips allows for faster readout of the image than would have been otherwise possible, as they can be read out simultaneously. [http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/]

ee also

* List of observatories

External links

* [http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/ WIYN Observatory] - official site.