THE 182 CM TELESCOPE: INSTRUMENTATION
AFOSC: INSTRUMENT LAYOUT
Mechanical/optical layout of the instrument
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THE 182 CM TELESCOPE: INSTRUMENTATIONAFOSC: INSTRUMENT LAYOUT |
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| AFOSC basically consists basically of a collimator, a camera and three wheels with eight holes which house several optical elements. This instrument was provided by the Astronomical Observatory of Copenhagen. Light from the telescope passes through the slit (spectroscopy mode) or the hole (imaging mode) to the slit wheel and is gathered by the collimator. In the collimated beam, between the collimator and the camera, the light passes through the filter and the grism wheels where the exit pupil of the instrument is positioned. Finally the light is imaged by the camera on the detector. |
Mechanical/optical layout of the instrument |
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AFOSC
without the enclosure box
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AFOSC seen from the CCD point of view
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Grism
and filter wheels
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The slit wheel with its motors
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