Bibcode
Rodríguez Espinosa, J. M.; Alvarez, P.
Bibliographical reference
Science with the GTC (Eds. José Miguel Rodríguez Espinosa, Francisco Garzón López, and Verónica Melo Martín) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 16, pp. 1-8 (2003) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
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Description
The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), a 10 meter segmented-mirror
telescope, now at an advanced stage of construction on La Palma (Spain),
will shortly be entering its integration phase. First light is planned
for the second half of 2003, with science operations scheduled for the
end of 2004. This represents a small delay against the originally
planned calendar. When the GTC enters its operational phase it will be
provided with two Nasmyth focal stations, each supplied with a science
instrument, as well as their corresponding rotator adaptors and
acquisition and guiding boxes. On entering into operation, the GTC will
offer exciting capabilities for astronomy, thanks to its complement of
first generation instruments, namely OSIRIS, and CanariCam. In the
following, the status of the projects and the plans for its scientific
operation will be addressed.