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. CTIO operates the 4-m Blanco telescope on Cerro Tololo, and the new 4.1-m SOAR Telescope, which is on the adjacent Cerro Pachon, next to the 8-m Gemini Telescope. The CTIO 1.5-m, 1.3-m and 0.9-m telescopes, and the Yale 1.0m telescope are being operated by the SMARTS Consortium, NOAO users are entitled to 25% of the time on the small telescopes.
Telescopes available for CTIO Users:
4.0 Meter Blanco Telescope.
4.1 Meter SOAR Telescope
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).
Completed programs:
2MASS South
USNO CCD Astrographic Catalog (UCAC)
YALO 1.0m Project
Other items related to telescopes at CTIO:
RoboDIMM
On-site Seeing Monitor
Optical Engineering: Mirror Cleaning and
Aluminizing, Image Quality, Seeing Statistics, Telescope Collimation,
etc...
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