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Mayall 4m Telescope

(KPNO 4m, Kitt Peak 4m, Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope)
(4 meter reflector telescope at Kitt Peak)

The Mayall 4m Telescope (aka KPNO 4m, Kitt Peak 4m, or Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope) is a 4-meter reflector telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in Arizona. It was built in 1973, at which time it was the second largest telescope in the world after Hale Telescope and like the Hale, it has an equatorial mount. It was the model for the 1976 Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), Chile. As of 2023, the Mayall 4m is dedicated to an ongoing survey using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) multi-object spectrograph, with early release announced in June 2023.


(telescope,reflector,ground,Arizona)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_U._Mayall_Telescope
https://noirlab.edu/science/programs/kpno/telescopes/nicholas-mayall-4m-telescope
https://noirlab.edu/public/programs/kitt-peak-national-observatory/nicholas-mayall-4m-telescope/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06308

Referenced by pages:
BigBOSS
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
Deep Lens Survey (DLS)
Deep Multicolor Survey (DMS)
equatorial mount
fiber positioner
Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO)
Local Group Galaxy Survey (LGGS)
monolithic mirror
National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)
NOAO Deep Wide-field Survey (NDWFS)
NOAO Source Catalog (NSC)
NOIRLab
SKHB
SPACEWATCH
Víctor M. Blanco Telescope

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