GREGOR: the new 1.5-m solar telescope on Tenerife

Reiner Volkmer; Oskar von der Luehe; Franz Kneer; Juergen Staude; Axel Hofmann; Wolfgang Schmidt; Michal Sobotka; Dirk Soltau; Eberhardt Wiehr; Axel Wittmann; Thomas Berkefeld

doi:10.1117/12.471367

11 February 2003 GREGOR: the new 1.5m solar telescope on Tenerife

Reiner Volkmer, Oskar von der Luehe, Franz Kneer, Juergen Staude, Axel Hofmann, Wolfgang Schmidt, Michal Sobotka, Dirk Soltau, Eberhardt Wiehr, Axel Wittmann, Thomas Berkefeld

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Proceedings Volume 4853, Innovative Telescopes and Instrumentation for Solar Astrophysics; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.471367
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

The new 1.5 m high resolution telescope will be build up on the reused solar tower of the German 45 cm Gregory Coude Telescope at the Teide Observatory, Izana, Tenerife. The new telescope is a Gregory type with open telescope structure, alt-azimuth mount, complete retractable dome, and a pool of well established and new developed post focus instruments. An adaptive optics system provides the capability for diffraction limited observations at visible wavelengths and the polarimetry device in the secondary focus reduces the perturbation due to instrumental polarization in an efficient way. We describe the main optical characteristics and the focal plane instrumentation with respect to the latest status of the project.

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Reiner Volkmer, Oskar von der Luehe, Franz Kneer, Juergen Staude, Axel Hofmann, Wolfgang Schmidt, Michal Sobotka, Dirk Soltau, Eberhardt Wiehr, Axel Wittmann, and Thomas Berkefeld "GREGOR: the new 1.5m solar telescope on Tenerife", Proc. SPIE 4853, Innovative Telescopes and Instrumentation for Solar Astrophysics, (11 February 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.471367

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