3-camera Coude-Echelle Spectrograph
with spectral resolution up to 500,000. Spectrograph MAESTRO (MAtrix Echelle Spectrograph)
installed at the coude focus of the ZEISS-2000 telescope (peak
Terskol, Kabarda-Balkarian republic) was designed for wide-bandpass
stellar spectroscopy with resolutions from 40000 to 180000 in
spectral range 3500-10000 ÅÅ. This instrument was
put into operation in 1997.
MAESTRO COMPONENTS.
the collimator is an off-axis parabolic mirror with a
diameter of 200 mm and a focal length 7100 mm;
the echelle mosaic built from two echelle gratings (200x250
mm with 37.5 gr mm-1) has a tan
qb=
2 (qb=
63.° 5) blaze angle;
the echelle mosaic built from three echelle gratings
(220x320 mm with 37.5 gr mm-1)
has a tan qb=
6 (qb=
80.° 5) blaze angle;
the cross-disperser is a 45° crown prism;
the cameras:
camera 1 - folded Schmidt ƒ = 450 mm;
camera 2 - Schmidt with outer focus ƒ= 875 mm;
camera 3 - Schmidt with outer focus ƒ = 1900
mm;
detectors:
Wright Instruments CCD, 1242x1152 with 22.5 mm pixels