The Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) is an astronomical telescope located at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma in the Canary Islands. First light came in 1988, with regular observing beginning in 1989. It is funded by Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Norway and Finland. Access is provided to astronomers of all nationalities through internation time allocation committees.

The NOT is a 2.56m telescope with the following instrumentation:

• ALFOSC -- CCD (visible light) faint object spectrograph and 4 Megapixel camera
• NOTCam -- 1 Megapixel HgCdTe Hawaii infrared camera and spectrograph
• MOSCA -- 16 Megapixel CCD camera
• SOFIN -- High resolution CCD spectrograph (up to R=170000)
• StanCam -- Stand-by 1 Megapixel CCD camera
• LuckyCam -- High frame rate, low noise L3Vision CCD camera for Lucky Imaging
• TURPOL -- UBVRI Photopolarimeter

External links

• not.iac.es - official site.