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Victor M. Blanco Telescope (CTIO 4 meter)
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Victor M. Blanco Telescope	has mounting manufacturer Western Gear Corp.
	has longitude 70° 49' W
	has latitude 30° 10' S
	has mirror maker KPNO Optical Shop
	has mirror type Cer-Vit
	has aperture 4.001 m
	has focal ratio f/2.8, 8.0
	has synonym CTIO 4 meter
	has altitude 2215 m
	has owner Cerro Tololo Inter-American Obs.
	has creation date 1976
	has location Cerro Tololo, Chile
	is an instance of Ritchey-Chrétien
	is an instance of optical telescope
	is an instance of Horseshoe equatorial telescope
Horseshoe equatorial telescope	has mounting Horseshoe equatorial
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
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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