CTIO
> Telescopes at CTIO
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The Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory is located about 500km north of Santiago, Chile, about 70km east of La Serena, at an altitude of 2200 meters. On site are several optical telescopes, and one radio telescope. CTIO operates the 4-m Blanco telescope, and will also operate the new 4.1-m SOAR Telescope, which is on the adjacent Cerro Pachon, next to the 8-m Gemini Telescope. From February 1 2003 through January 31 2006 the CTIO 1.5-m, 1.3-m and 0.9-m telescopes are being operated by the SMARTS Consortium. During 2004 the 1.0-m telescope was added. For semester 2004B NOAO users are entitled to 30% of the time on the small telescopes, falling to 25% in 2005.
Telescopes available for CTIO Users:
4.0 Meter Blanco Telescope.
4.1 Meter SOAR Telescope(2005A - shared risk, limited time).
Small Telescopes (1.5-m, 1.3-m, 1.0-m, 0.9-m)
No longer available...
0.6/0.9 Meter Curtis Schmidt Telescope f/3.5 (96.6 arcsec/mm).
RoboDIMM
On-site Seeing Monitor
Optical Engineering: Mirror Cleaning and
Aluminizing, Image Quality, Seeing Statistics, Telescope Collimation,
etc...
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