Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope
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Telescope Jacobus Kapteyn telescope |
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| The Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope 2011 against a cloud background with the rising sun | |
| Type | Parabolic mirror |
| Location |
La Palma , Canary Islands
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| height | 2,360 m |
| Geographic coordinates | 28 ° 45 '40.5 " N , 17 ° 52' 41.2" W |
| wavelength | Optically |
| Aperture | 1 m
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| construction time | 1983 |
| Installation | 1984 |
The Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope also briefly JKT is an optical 1- m - reflecting telescope named after the Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn on La Palma in the Canary Islands , where it is part of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes Group . (English Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes ).
Financed in a cooperation between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom , the planning began in the 1970s. Construction of the JKT was completed in 1983 and the first photographic plates were taken in March 1984.
It can be operated with two different focal lengths and different instruments, but since 1998 in fact only with a CCD camera . The telescope weighs a total of almost 40 tons .
In the meantime outstripped by more modern and larger telescopes, it was decommissioned for general use in August 2003.