Large Cassegrain Spectrometer
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Instrument Overview
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  Large Cassegrain Spectrometer on the
McDonald Observatory
  2.7m Telescope

  The information included here was
extracted from the McDonald
  Observatory web site are:

           
http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/

  on 24 April 2002 by A.C.Raugh. For
additional information,
  including a list of gratings, S/N examples and
manuals, see
  the McDonald Observatory web site.

  The Large Cassegrain
Spectrometer (LCS) sits at the Cassegrain
  f/17.7 focus of the 2.7m Harlan J.
Smith telescope. The web site
  above provides this general description:

   
A low-to-moderate-resolution spectrometer (R = 600-2,500)
    for faint object
work available with TI1 and CC1 CCDs.
    Various gratings provide wavelength
coverage from 0.3 to
    1.1 microns.  The LCS has long slit (150 arcsec)
capability
    and CCD-based guiding and acquisition.  Limiting magnitude
   
m[v]=20.