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Pic du Midi observatory - The Bernard Lyot Telescope

by

Patrick Lécureuil/Novapix

Reference

o-pcm02-02001

Date

2010-10-27

The Bernard Lyot Telescope (Téléscope Bernard Lyot, or TBL) is a 2 m Cassegrain telescope operating in the visible domain, since 1980. Since 2007, the Bernard Lyot Telescope is housing an echelle spectropolarimeter NARVAL, allowing astronomers to probe stellar magnetic fields to an exquisite sensitivity.