WIYN Observatory

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WIYN Telescope
Organization	WIYN Consortium
Location	Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona, USA
Wavelength	optical
Built	Completed 1994
Telescope style	reflector
Diameter	Blank diameter: 3.51155 m (138.25") / Diameter to bevels: 3.49885 m (137.75")
Collecting area	9.6m²
Focal length	f/ 1.75
Mounting	alt/az
Dome	Truncated Rhombi-cube octahedron
Website	http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/

The WIYN Observatory is owned and operated by the WIYN Consortium. Its telescope, a 3.5-meter instrument, is the newest and second largest telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Most of the capital costs of the observatory were provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University, and Yale University, while the National Optical Astronomy Observatory provides most of the operating services.

[edit] Standard Instrumentation

HYDRA: HYDRA is a multiobject spectrograph using fiber optics positioned in the focal plane to allow up to 100 separate objects to be observed at a time. The light is guided to a spectrograph room under the main telescope where a CCD camera records the spectrum of each object. The field of view is ~1 degree. [1]

MiniMo: MiniMo is a CCD camera consisting of two 2048x4096 pixel chips, with a field of view of 9.6 arcminutes. The two separate chips allows for faster readout of the image than would have been otherwise possible, as they can be read out simultaneously. [2]