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It was a 1.5-metre (4.9 ft) Cassegrain telescope with a tip-tilt correcting secondary and optimized for infrared observations, but was decommissioned in March 2005.
The observatory at the summit of Gornergrat was built on top of the Kulmhotel Gornergrat in the late 1960' and is most notably equipped with a 600 mm telescope built by Officina Stellare. [4] [5] It was the location of the Gornergrat Infrared Telescope (North tower; until 2005) and of KOSMA (South tower; until 2010).
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As the tourist traffic increased, the current larger hotel was built between 1897 and 1907. Given the clean air and good light conditions of the area, a dome was built on each of the two towers of the hotel in 1996. The KOSMA telescope was installed in the southern tower while the Gornergrat Infrared Telescope was installed in the northern ...
The list includes optical observatories, including UV, visible and some optical infrared telescopes, and near infrared. The list covers from about 1901 to 2001, with some flexibility to accommodate ambiguity in classification, for example some 2002 telescopes, if it was nearly operation in 2001. 19th century and earlier telescopes that ceased ...
Because of the good climatic conditions at the altitude of 3135 m (10285 ft), astronomical observatories have been located in both towers of the Kulmhotel at Gornergrat since 1967. In 1985, the KOSMA telescope was installed in the southern tower by the Universität zu Köln and, in the course of 1995, replaced by a new dish and mount.
An infrared telescope is a telescope that uses infrared light to detect celestial bodies. Infrared light is one of several types of radiation present in the electromagnetic spectrum . All celestial objects with a temperature above absolute zero emit some form of electromagnetic radiation . [ 1 ]
Gornergrat (HFSJG) (defunct) 1967–2005 Gornergrat, Switzerland Granat (defunct) 1989–1999 Highly eccentric Earth orbit: Gran Telescopio Canarias: 2006 Canary Islands, Spain Grant O. Gale Observatory: 1984 Grinnell, Iowa, US Green Bank Telescope: Green Bank, West Virginia, US Green Point Observatory: 1961 Sutherland, New South Wales, Australia