Marseille 0.36-metre telescope
The Marseille 0.36-metre telescope was installed on La Silla in September 1989 near the Grand Prisme Objectif telescope, after being assembled and tested at Marseille Observatory in March 1989. The telescope was equipped with a focal reducer, a scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer and a photon-counting camera. It was devoted to a survey of the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds over several years.
Science goals
Férot-Fabry interferometry of galactic emission nebulae, which is a classical topic at the Observatoire de Marseille (incidentally, Pérot was from Marseille).
Links
Marseille 0.36-metre telescope
| Name: | Marseille 0.36-metre telescope |
| Site: | La Silla |
| Altitude: | 2375 m |
| Enclosure: | Sliding roof |
| Type: | Spectrographic telescope |
| Optical design: | Richey-Chrétien reflector |
| Diameter. Primary M1: | 0.36 m |
| Material. Primary M1: | low-expansion crystallized glass-ceramic |
| Diameter. Primary M2: | 0.11 m |
| Material. Primary M2: | low-expansion crystallized glass-ceramic |
| Mount: | Equatorial yoke mount |
| First Light date: | 20 September 1989 |