NAYUTA Telescope is the largest telescope in NHAO. Its 2-meter primary mirror is the largest kind of it in Japan (without SUBARU telescope, which is located at Mauna Kea in Hawaii). And one of the largest telescope in the world through which visitors can gaze heavenly bodies.
We started operation of NAYUTA telescope in November 2004. Now we mainly use it on the star-gazing session every evening.
If you are interested in the academic use of this telescope, please visit the the page about open-use.
Specification of NAYUTA Telescope
- Primary Mirror
- effective diameter: 2000mm
- prime focus/F1.5
- Optical System
- Ritchey-Chretien telescope
- Foci
- Cassegrain (F12) / Nasmyth-1 (F12) / Nasmyth-2 (F5)
- Mount
- Altazimuth
- Instruments
- Eyepiece
High definition color video camera
Optical multi-color imager
Optical long-slit spectrograph
Near-infrared imager
- Altitude
- 449m
- Latitude
- 35d 01m 31s (+35.0253d) N
- Longitude
- 134d 20m 08s (+134.3356) E
Counstructed by Mitsubishi Electric
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