Publication type: Non-refereed

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    Gran Telescopio Canarias Commissioning Instrument Optomechanics
    Under a contract with the GRANTECAN, the Commissioning Instrument is a project developed by a team of Mexican scientists and engineers from the Instrumentation...
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    Gran Telescopio Canarias: a 10 m telescope for the ORM.
    A project to build a large telescope at the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM), in the island of La Palma, has been underway for several...
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    Gran Telescopio Canarias: a 10-m telescope for the ORM
    A project to build a large telescope at the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM), in the island of La Palma, has been underway for several...
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    Gran Telescopio Canarias: a key asset for Spanish astronomy
    First light of the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) is reviewed by Francisco Sánchez Martínez, encourager of such an endeavour which is today a reality.
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    Gran Telescopio Canarias: current status of its optical design and optomechanical support system
    The conceptual design of the GTC optical system was completed in summer of 1997. It will be a Richey Cretien type telescope with a flat tertiary mirror to feed...
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    Gran Telescopio Canarias: project status
    The Grain Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) is a high performance 10-m class telescope which is being built by the IAC (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias). It will...
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    GRANCAIN: the first light infrared camera for GTCAO: end-to-end optical design, integration, and verification
    The Gran Telescopio de Canarias Adaptive Optic System (GTCAO) is built to provide nearly diffraction-limited images to GTC. GRANCAIN (GRAN CAmara INfrarroja) is...
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    GRANCAIN: the first light infrared camera for the adaptive optics of GTC: optical and mechanical design status
    The Gran Telescopio de Canarias Adaptive Optic System (GTCAO) is designed to provide nearly diffraction-limited images to GTC. GRANCAIN (GRAN CAmara INfrarroja)...
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    Grand-Design Spirals in the Core of NGC 5248
    We report the detection of a bisymmetric nuclear spiral structure in the spiral galaxy NGC 5248. The two red spiral arms can be followed for about 3 arcsec...