FRED L. WHIPPLE OBSERVATORY 2MASS 1.3M  
        TELESCOPE
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  Instrument Host Overview                                                    
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    The 2MASS project was carried out with two identical 1.3-meter aperture,  
    open-tube, equatorial fork-mount telescopes. These telescopes have been   
    provided with a Cassegrain focus mount for the infrared cameras and a     
    secondary mirror, which is articulated in the declination direction.  The 
    telescope described here is the northern hemisphere one, located at the   
    Whipple Observatory in Arizona.                                           
                                                                              
    Primary Mirror: 1300 mm diameter, radius 5200 mm, conic constant -1.000   
    Secondary Mirror: 232 mm diameter, radius 965.7 mm, conic constant -1.847 
                                                                              
    The telescopes were designed, manufactured, and installed by M3           
    Engineering and Technology Corp., Tucson, AZ. The optics were figured by  
    Rayleigh Optical Corp., Baltimore, MD. The telescope control system       
    software was provided by Comsoft, Tucson, AZ. After the completion of the 
    2MASS data-taking, the University of Massachusetts donated the telescopes 
    to the host observatories.                                                
                                                                              
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            OBSERVATORY_ID             = 'OBS320'                             
            NAME                       = 'FRED L. WHIPPLE OBSERVATORY'        
            COUNTRY                    = 'USA'                                
            ADDRESS                    = 'Harvard-Smithsonian Center for      
    Astrophysics;                                                             
                                          P.O. Box 97;                        
                                          Amado, Arizona'                     
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            TELESCOPE_ID               = 'T13'                                
            NAME                       = '2MASS 1.3M TELESCOPE'               
            APERTURE                   = 1.3 <METERS>                         
            LONGITUDE                  = -110.878140 /* -110 52 41.30 E */    
            LATITUDE                   =   31.680780 /* +31 40 50.8 */        
            ALTITUDE                   = 3206 <METERS>                        
            COORDINATE_TYPE            = 'Astronomical'                       
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