Telescope

• Technical information on the telescope
• Telescope Control System (TCS)

• Default telescope focus and balance for different instruments

Instrument information

• Overview of instrumentation

• Core instruments:
  • ALFOSC: UV-optical imaging, polarimetry and low-resolution spectroscopy
  • NOTCam: NIR imaging, polarimetry and low-resolution spectroscopy
  • FIES: High-resolution, high-stability optical spectroscopy
  • MOSCA: High-resolution, high-efficiency UV-optical imaging
  • StanCam: Standby CCD imager

• Visitors instruments (limited access):
  • SOFIN: Optical high-resolution spectrograph
  • TurPol: Photo-polarimeter

• Other instruments:
  • LuckyCam: "Lucky" imager
  • PolCor: "Lucky" polarimeter/coronagraph

• Exposure Time Calculator
• Observing overheads

• Optical filters
• Telescope focus offsets for optical filters
• NIR filters

• Detectors
• Detector Quality Monitoring

• Lists of all Sequencer commands and scripts

• FITS headers and software

Related documents

• Development projects