Isaac Newton Telescope
The INT dome by moonlight
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| Organisation | Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes |
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| Location(s) | Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Canary Islands (1984–Present) |
| Coordinates | 28°45′44″N 17°52′39″W / 28.7622°N 17.8775°WCoordinates: 28°45′44″N 17°52′39″W / 28.7622°N 17.8775°W |
| Wavelength | Optical / infrared |
| Built | 1979–1984 (Moved from England) |
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Two configurations:
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| Diameter | 2.54 m (100 in) |
| Collecting area | ~5m2 |
| Focal length | 8.36 m (329 in) |
| Mounting | Fork type equatorial |
| Enclosure | Spherical |
| Website | INT Homepage |
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The old building at Herstmonceux Castle in England
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| Location(s) | Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux Castle, England (1967–1979) |
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| Coordinates | 28°45′44″N 17°52′39″W / 28.7622°N 17.8775°WCoordinates: 28°45′44″N 17°52′39″W / 28.7622°N 17.8775°W |
| Wavelength | Optical |
| Built | 1967 |
| Telescope style | Cassegrain |
| Diameter | 249 cm (98 in.) |
| Collecting area | ~5m2 |
| Focal length | 8.36m (329 in.) |
| Mounting | Fork type equatorial |
| Enclosure | Spherical |
| Website | INT Homepage |
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The Isaac Newton Telescope or INT is a 2.54 m (100 in.) optical telescope run by the ING at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma in the Canary Islands since 1984.
Originally it was situated at Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex, England, which was the site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory after it moved away from Greenwich due to light pollution. It was inaugurated in 1967 by Queen Elizabeth II. The telescope is now one member of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes.
However, Herstmonceux suffered from poor weather, and the advent of mass air travel made it plausible for UK astronomers to run an overseas observatory. In 1979, the INT was shipped to La Palma, where it has remained ever since. It saw its second first light in 1984, with a video camera.
Today, it is used mostly with the Wide Field Camera (WFC), a four CCD instrument with a field of view of 0.56x0.56 square degrees which was commissioned in 1997. The other main instrument available at the INT is the Intermediate Dispersion Spectrograph (IDS), recently re-introduced having been unavailable for a period of several years.
The La Palma INT is a Cassegrain telescope, with a 2.54 m (100 in) diameter primary mirror and a focal length of 8.36 m (329 in). The mirror weighs 4361 kg (9614 lb), and is supported by a polar disc/fork type equatorial mounting. The total weight of the telescope is around 90 tons. The f/3.29 Prime focus, used with the WFC, allows an unvignetted field of view of 40 arcminutes (approximately 0.3 square degrees). There is also a secondary focal station, the f/15 Cassegrain focus, which possesses a 20 arcminute field of view and is the mount point for the IDS. The telescopes second first light was done by video.
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