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2-meter Telescope (Tautenberg Schmidt)
subject			fact

2-meter Telescope	has has mirror diameter 2 m
	has comment can also be used in Cassegrain and coude modes
	has mounting manufacturer Zeiss (Jena)
	has longitude 11° 43'E
	has latitude 50° 59' N
	has mirror maker Zeiss (Jena)
	has mirror type Schott ZK-7 glass
	has aperture 1.34 m
	has focal ratio f/3.00
	has synonym Tautenberg Schmidt
	has altitude 331 m
	has owner Karl Schwarzschild Observatorium
	has creation date 1960
	has location Tautenberg, Germany
	is an instance of Schmidt
	is an instance of Fork equatorial telescope
Fork equatorial telescope	has mounting equatorial fork
Schmidt	has secondary mirror shape none
	has primary mirror shape concave spheroid
	has optical design Schmidt
reflector	has mirror diameter equal to aperture (except for Schmidt which has aperture smaller than mirror diameter)
Earth based telescope	has temperature ambient
telescope	has wavelength sensitivity
	has angular resolving power
	has effective diameter
	has operator
	has purpose observe celestial objects
artifact	has creator
physical object	has angular momentum
	has mass
	has velocity
	has momentum
	has volume
	has extent
	has material

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