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Hydra

THIS INSTRUMENT HAS BEEN RETIRED. INFORMATION PROVIDED HERE IS FOR REFERENCE ONLY

 

Hydra Optical Spectrograph

Hydra is a multi-object, fiber-fed spectrograph, Cassegrain instrument on the Blanco 4.0-m Telescope. It has 138 large (~300 micron) fibers.

Detector: SITe 4Kx2K 
FOV: 40 arcmin
Resolution < 50,000
Wavelength range:
0.32-0.90 micron

Hydra CTIO Instrument Scientist

David James

Updated on July 26, 2024, 7:25 am