TripleSpec

 

triplespec at apo
Triplespec mounted at the Nasmyth Port #2 of the Apache Point Observatory 3.5-m telescope.

 

The TripleSpec spectrographs are a series of spectrographs that were originally designed and fabricated through a collaboration between Cornell University, Caltech, JPL and UVa.  These near-infrared cross-dispersed spectrographs provide simultaneous R~3000 spectra from <1.0 -- 2.4 micron.  They also feature a separate slit viewing channel.  Please see Wilson et al. 2004 for a full description.  After the original three copies were made for the Apache Point Observatory 3.5-m (shown above), Palomar 200-inch, and Keck 10-m telescopes, I helped Cornell and NOAO develop a fourth copy for the Blanco 4-m telescope.  That fourth copy has recently been modified and moved to the SOAR 4.1-m telescope.  Below are the websites for the various copies:

Apache Point Observatory 3.5-m website
Palomar 200-inch website
Keck 10-m website
SOAR 4.1-m website