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Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (Galileo)
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Telescopio Nazionale Galileo	has longitude 17° 54'W
	has latitude 28° 45' N
	has mirror maker Zeiss
	has mirror type Zerodur
	has aperture 3.58 m
	has focal ratio f/2.5, 6, 11
	has synonym Galileo
	has altitude 2370 m
	has owner Obs. del Roque de los Muchachos
	has creation date (1998)
	has location La Palma, Canary Islands
	is an instance of Ritchey-Chrétien
	is an instance of optical telescope
	is an instance of altazimuth telescope
altazimuth telescope	has mounting altazimuth
Ritchey-Chrétien	has secondary mirror shape convex hyperboloid
	has primary mirror shape concave hyperboloid
	has optical design Ritchey-Chrétien
optical telescope	has optical design
	has reference astroweb
Earth based telescope	has mounting manufacturer the person, company or institution that constructed the mounting
	has temperature ambient
reflector	has mirror diameter equal to aperture (except for Schmidt which has aperture smaller than mirror diameter)
telescope	has wavelength sensitivity
	has angular resolving power
	has effective diameter
	has operator
	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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