The second QUIJOTE telescope ready to join its partner

19/01/2015
The final on-site acceptance tests of the second QUIJOTE telescope were successfully conducted during the last weeks, in which the performance of the telescope was checked, including the different operation modes. Its installation at the Teide Observatory, in Tenerife, was completed in early November, 2014 . The telescope's rotary joint, where all electrical, communication and fluid channels converge to allow the telescope fully and continuously rotate on its axis, were integrated in that phase. QUIJOTE-II is now ready to receive the TGI instrument and join its partner in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation.