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Calar-Alto-Schmidtspiegel (Calar Alto Schmidt)
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Calar-Alto-Schmidtspiegel	has comment Tube and optics moved from Hamburg, Germany, where the instrument had been in use since 1955
	has mounting manufacturer Grubb-Parsons
	has longitude 2° 32' W
	has latitude 37° 13' N
	has mirror maker Zeiss (Jena)
	has mirror diameter 1.2 m
	has aperture 0.80 m
	has focal ratio f/3.0
	has synonym Calar Alto Schmidt
	has altitude 2168 m
	has owner Calar Alto Observatory
	has creation date 1980
	has location Calar Alto, Spain
	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 type material and other engineering details
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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