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The SCORPIO universal focal reducer of the 6-m telescope

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We describe the SCORPIO focal reducer that has been used since the fall of 2000 for observations on the 6-m Special Astrophysical Observatory telescope. We give parameters of the instrument in various observing modes (direct imaging, long-slit and multislit spectroscopy, spectropolarimetry, Fabry-Perot panoramic spectroscopy). Observations of various astronomical objects are used as examples to demonstrate the SCORPIO capabilities.

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  1. Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnii Arkhyz, 357147, Karachai-Cherkessian Republic, Russia

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Translated from Pis’ma v Astronomicheski\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l}\) Zhurnal, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2005, pp. 214–225.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Afanasiev, Moiseev.

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Afanasiev, V.L., Moiseev, A.V. The SCORPIO universal focal reducer of the 6-m telescope. Astron. Lett. 31, 194–204 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1883351

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