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Hobby-Eberly Telescope
subject			fact

Hobby-Eberly Telescope	has comment A project of five universities in US and Germany; 91 spherical mirrors with combined focus for spectroscopy
	has mounting altazimuth fixed in altitude but rotates in azimuth
	has longitude 104° 01' W
	has latitude 30° 41' N
	has mirror maker Univ. of Texas, Penn. State
	has optical design Spherical figure
	has aperture 9.2 m equivalent
	has focal ratio (f/1.4) f/4.7
	has altitude 2002 m
	has owner University of Texas
	has purpose spectroscopic survey telescope
	has creation date 1997
	has location Mount Fowlkes, Texas, US
	is an instance of reflector
	is an instance of optical telescope
	is an instance of altazimuth telescope
reflector	has mirror type material and other engineering details
	has mirror diameter equal to aperture (except for Schmidt which has aperture smaller than mirror diameter)
	has secondary mirror shape
	has primary mirror shape
optical telescope	has reference astroweb
Earth based telescope	has mounting manufacturer the person, company or institution that constructed the mounting
	has temperature ambient
telescope	has wavelength sensitivity
	has angular resolving power
	has effective diameter
	has operator
artifact	has creator
physical object	has angular momentum
	has mass
	has velocity
	has momentum
	has volume
	has extent
	has material

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