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FE: 2.5m Tel. Instruments: TAURUS-1, Fabry Perot Drawings [Isaac Newton Telescope], 1977 - 1985

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 101/1/FE

Scope and Contents

A set of 297 drawings of the TAURUS-1 Fabry-Perot spectrograph and imager of the 2.5m Telescope (Isaac Newton Telescope or INT). The drawings were originally in three rolls labelled 'FE 2.5m Tel. Instruments Taurus I, Fabry Perot, Drgs BO, BP, BQ, BR, BT, BU, BX, BY and BZ (V and W size shts)'; '(X and Y size shts)'; and '(Z size shts)'. They include drawings of five sizes: V, W, X, Y and Z, V being the largest.

The Isaac Newton Telescope was moved from RGO Herstmonceux to the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma in the early 1980s. The TAURUS-1 Fabry-Perot spectrograph and imager saw its first light in April 1985 and was decommissioned in February 1989. It was a wide-field, imaging interferometer designed to obtain spectral information of extended emission-line objects, producing monochromatic pictures of nebulae. Those images could then be interpreted to understand their motions and three-dimensional structure.

Dates

  • Creation: 1977 - 1985

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Management Group:

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Extent

297 sheet(s) (rolled in 3 tubes and 2 boxes) : paper

Bibliography

For further information see https://www.ing.iac.es//PR/inst.php?tel=int&inst=TAURUS1.

Repository Details

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