Anglo-Australian Telescope
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Anglo-Australian Telescope
The Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) is a 3.9
m
equatorially mounted
telescope operated by the
Anglo-Australian Observatory
and situated at the
Siding Spring Observatory
,
Australia
at an altitude of a little over 1100 m. It is jointly funded by the
United Kingdom
and
Australia
, with observing time made available to astronomers worldwide. It is equipped with a number of instruments, including the Two Degree Field facility (
2dF
), a robotic
optical fiber
positioner for obtaining
spectroscopy
of up to 400 objects over a 2° field of view simultaneously; the
University College London
Échelle Spectrograph (UCLES), a high-resolution optical spectrograph which has been used to discover many
extrasolar planets
; and IRIS2, a wide-field
infrared
camera and spectrograph.
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