Astronomical Observatories in Spain
SIERRA NEVADA OBSERVATORY
The Sierra Nevada Observatory (OSN) is placed in Sierra Nevada, in the place of la loma deDílar, in Granada. It has two telescopes in configuration Nasmyth with 1.5 m and 0.90 m of aperture located in a building with rectangular form of 10 for 20 meters of plant, with the major axis orientated in direction this west. The telescopes are installed in two domes of 9 and 6.5 meters.
Recently there has installed a tetrascope formed by a set of four small placed telescopes of two in two in rwo cockpits.
The OSN is managed and
operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA).
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1.5 m. Telescope
photo: David Fernández-Barba
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0.9 m. Telescope
photo: David Fernández-Barba
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By virtue of an agreement between the company
Nanjing Astronomical Instruments Factory (NAIF), belonging to the Academy
China of the Sciences and the IAA start the construction of two telescopes
Ritchey-Chretien of 1,5 and 0,9 m. respectively that were installed in the
OSN at the end of 1991.
Tetrascope
photo: IAA - CSIC
The
Sierra Nevada tetrascopio is a set of four telescopes of 0.36m of diameter
used for the detection and analysis of sparkles of impact in the dark side
of Moon visible from the Earth and for a systematical tracking in search of
objects transneptunians of great size.
The equipment is located in a few small cockpits of total opening. There are
two telescopes for every cockpit.
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