THE 182 CM TELESCOPE: INSTRUMENTATION

AFOSC

The Asiago Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (AFOSC) is a focal reducer type spectrograph/camera twin of DFOSC, the instrument installed at Danish 1.54 m telescope at la Silla. It is installed at the Cassegrain focus of the 182 cm telescope. This enables imaging, spectroscopy, a resolution accuracy of 240 up to 3600, and polarimetry, to be performed.

AFOSC User manual (ps.zip)

Technical Data

OBSERVING MODES

• Imaging
• Spectroscopy
• Polarimetry
• Spectropolarimetry

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