Rotators for the Canaries Large Telescope
TEKNIKER has concluded the verification tests on the two Nasmyth rotators which they have designed and constructed for the Large Telescope on the Canary Islands and which, probably over this coming Autumn, will be incorporated at the Grantecan installation. The two Nasmyth rotators are two son large rotating pieces of almost four metres diameter and six tons weight and which are installed on either side of the telescope tube and which supports the mass of cables which carry the information - as photons - to the devices which carry out scientific analysis. Their function is to rotate with high precision despite the great mass they have to bear (more than two tons of cables and scientific equ