Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
- Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
Infobox Observatory
name = Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
caption = The WHT (left), INT (second from right) and JKT (far right). Also shown is the Dutch Open Telescope, the Carlsberg Meridian Telescope and the Swedish Solar Telescope.
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telescope1_name = William Herschel Telescope
telescope1_type = Optical / infrared
telescope2_name = Isaac Newton Telescope
telescope2_type = Optical / infrared
telescope3_name = Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope
telescope3_type = Optical
telescope4_name = NWO
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telescope5_name = IAC
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The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes or ING operates the William Herschel Telescope, Isaac Newton Telescope and Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope optical telescopes for the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the NWO and the IAC. The telescopes are located at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma in the Canary Islands.
These telescopes were formerly under the control of the Royal Greenwich Observatory before UK government cutbacks in 1998.
External links
* [http://www.ing.iac.es/ ING Homepage]
* [http://www.stfc.ac.uk Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)]
* [http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/index Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoe (NWO)]
* [http://www.iac.es/ Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)]
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