OGS Telescope
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Carl Zeiss
Carl Zeiss was a German maker of optical instruments commonly known for the company he founded, Carl Zeiss Jena . Zeiss made contributions to lens manufacturing that have aided the modern production of lenses...
, is owned by ESA (European Space Agency) and is operated by the IAC (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias is an astrophysical research institute located in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain. It was founded in 1975 at the University of La Laguna.It operates two astronomical observatories in the Canary Islands:...
).
The telescope is a 1m Ritchey-Chretien / Coudé telescope supported by an English
England
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-built mount inside a dome 12.5 m in diameter. Its main purposes are:
- to be the optical ground station of the Artemis telecommunications satellite (the project from which the telescope takes its name)
- to make surveys of space debris in different orbits around the Earth, and
- to make scientific astronomical night observations.
External links
- http://www.iac.es/telescopes/ogs/OGSE.html
- http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=36520