SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope

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The Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System (SMARTS) Consortium operates four small telescopes on Cerro Tololo in Chile. Membership in SMARTS is open to individuals or institutions, including international partners.

The SMARTS 1.5-meter telescope is an open-tube Cassegrain that has been operated with both imagers and spectrographs. As of August 2020, it is operated with a single instrument, the high-resolution optical spectrograph CHIRON.

For scientists: More details can be found on the science page.

 

SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope

Name(s) SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope
Status Operational 
Broad Science Goals  
Site Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile 
Location Coordinates 30º10′09.43’ S
70º48.24.44’ W
Altitude  
Enclosure Spherical dome
Type Optical/reflecting telescope
Optical Design Cassegrain
Field of View  
Diameter: Primary M1 1.5 meters
Material: Primary M1  
Diameter: Secondary M2  
Material: Secondary M2  
Mount Equatorial mount
First Light Date 1968
Adaptive Optics  
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