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Hectochelle

Hectochelle Bench
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Hardware

Hectochelle is a high-resolution, multiobject optical spectrograph fed by 240 optical fibers. It operates at the f/5 Cassegrain focus of the 6.5-meter MMT on Mount Hopkins in Arizona. The instrument is composed of a robotic positioner and a large, bench-mounted spectrograph, joined by a bundle of 25m long optical fibers. Dual robots, dubbed Fred and Ginger, reconfigure all 240 optical fibers in just 5 minutes.

[Hectochelle instrument page] [Hectochelle instrument paper in PDF]

Observing

Hectochelle Processing

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Modified 5-April-2007 by Doug Mink