Abstract

The Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (namely the Italian National Telescope “Galileo”) is a national 3.5m facility under construction at the Roque de Los Muchachos in Canary Islands. It consists into a classical Ritchey-Chretien optical configuration with two nasmith foci available. Of the two foci one is devoted to imaging, both in the InfraRed and in the visible, the other is mainly devoted to spectroscopy.

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