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| New Technology Telescope (NTT) | ||||
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| New Technology Telescope | has comment mirror figure controlled by 78 active supports |  |
| has longitude 70° 44' W | | |
| has latitude 29° 16' S | | |
| has mirror maker Zeiss | | |
| has mirror type thin Zerodur | | |
| has aperture 3.50 m | | |
| has focal ratio U2.2, 11 | | |
| has acronym NTT | | |
| has altitude 2353 m | | |
| has owner European Southern Observatory | | |
| has creation date 1989 | | |
| has location La Silla, Chile | | |
| is an instance of Ritchey-Chrétien | | |
| is an instance of optical telescope | | |
| is an instance of altazimuth telescope | | |
| altazimuth telescope | has mounting altazimuth | |
| Ritchey-Chrétien | has secondary mirror shape convex hyperboloid | |
| has primary mirror shape concave hyperboloid | | |
| has optical design Ritchey-Chrétien | | |
| optical telescope | has optical design | |
| has reference astroweb | | |
| Earth based telescope | has mounting manufacturer the person, company or institution that constructed the mounting | |
| has temperature ambient | | |
| reflector | has mirror diameter equal to aperture (except for Schmidt which has aperture smaller than mirror diameter) | |
| 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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