Dark Sky Observatory 18-inch scope instruments
Telescope
Instrumentation
Dome &Building
Control Room
What's new at the 18...
The 18-inch telescope is equipped with a DFM Engineering Guide Acquire Module instrument selector--that's the black box in the photo. The white coffee-can sized cylinder at the bottom is the Roper CCD camera with a 1024^2 25-micron SiTE chip, provided by the NSF. The blue instrument ont the right facing us is the spectrograph, built by Optomechanics Research.
For a larger version of the image at left, click here.
