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Isaac Newton Telescope (Isaac Newton 98 inch)
subject			fact

Isaac Newton Telescope	has comment originally set up in England in 1967
	has mounting manufacturer Grubb-Parsons
	has longitude 17° 53' W
	has latitude 28° 46' N
	has mirror maker Grubb-Parsons
	has aperture 2.5 m mirror
	has focal ratio f/3, 15
	has synonym Isaac Newton 98 inch
	has operator Royal Greenwich Observatory
	has altitude 2336 m
	has owner Obs. del Roque de Ins Muchachos
	has creation date 1984
	has location La Palma, Canary Islands
	is an instance of reflector
	is an instance of optical telescope
	is an instance of Polar-disk equatorial telescope
Polar-disk equatorial telescope	has mounting equatorial with polar-disk
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 optical design
	has reference astroweb
Earth based telescope	has temperature ambient
telescope	has wavelength sensitivity
	has angular resolving power
	has effective diameter
	has purpose observe celestial objects
artifact	has creator
physical object	has angular momentum
	has mass
	has velocity
	has momentum
	has volume
	has extent
	has material

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