International Center for Astronomical, Medical and Ecological Research
   
 Coude Echelle Spectrograph - MAESTRO
 MAESTRO (MAtrix Echelle SpecTRograph) is a 3-camera cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph installed at the coude focus (F/36) of the telescope ZEISS-2000. It was designed for stellar spectroscopy with resolutions from 45000 to 190000 in spectral range 3500-10000 ÅÅ. This instrument was put into operation in 1997. Later (in 2003) it had been modernized by implementing mosaic R6 assembled of three echelle gratings with 80.° 5 blaze angle. The mosaic allows to achieve very high resolution of ~500000 with 3d camera.

  BASIC COMPONENTS.
  • collimator is an off-axis parabolic mirror with diameter of 200 mm and focal length 7100 mm;
  • mosaic R2: built from two 200x250 mm echelle gratings
    with 37.5 gr mm-1 and 63.° 5 blaze angle;
  • mosaic R6: built from three 220x320 mm echelle gratings
    with 37.5 gr mm-1 and 80.° 5 blaze angle;
  • cross-disperser is a 45° crown prism;
  • cameras:
    • camera 1 - folded Schmidt ƒ = 450 mm;
    • camera 2 - Schmidt with outer focus ƒ= 875 mm;
    • camera 3 - Schmidt with outer focus ƒ = 1900 mm;
  • detectors:
  • Wright Instruments CCD, 1242x1152 with 22.5 mk pixel
    Wright Instruments CCD (back-illuminated), 1252x1152 with 22.5 mk pixel

Observational Capabilities for R2/R6 mosaics

Camera (f, mm) 450 875 1900
Orders on CCD 90/96 90 45
Max. Resolution, 103 45/120 80/220 190/500
Limiting magnitude, S/N ~10, Exp = 1h 11/8 */* */*


Optical layout


R2 mosaic


R6 mosaic


Raw echelle image R ~45000


Very high resolution samples



Telescopes & Equipment
 2m RCC Telescope produced by Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH (Germany)
 Large Horizontal Solar Telescope  
 Zeiss-600 Telescope
 MAESTRO -
 MAtrix Echelle SpecTROgraph
 MMCS -
 Multi Mode Cassegrain
Spectrometer
 TUVES-
 Terskol Ultra Violet Echelle Spectrometer
Some of the observatory activities
 Spectral investigations of interstellar clouds, solar analogs, X-ray binary stars, etc.
 Orbit calculation and monitoring of geosynchronous satellites
 Simultaneous observations with the Synchronous Network of Optical Telescopes to study microvariability of stars
  Study of gas and dust in comets
 Atmospheric studies