The Mercator Telescope
The Mercator telescope is a 1.2 meter telescope with an alt-azimuth mounting located on the Roque de los Muchachos observatory on La Palma, Spain. The telescope is operated by the staff of the Instituut voor Sterrenkunde and was build by the institute in close collaboration with the Geneva Observatory The Mercator telescope is a twin of the Euler telescope on La Silla, Chile and is in scientific operation since the spring of 2001.
People involved
Gert Raskin, Saskia Prins, Jesus Perez Padilla, Wim Pessemier, Florian Merges, Hans Van Winckel, Christoffel Waelkens
Related links
More information on the Mercator Telescope
Hermes Spectrograph page
Roque de los Muchachos observatory
Observatoire de Geneve
La Silla Observatory
