The 2-m Ritchey-Chretien-Coude Telescope

The 2-m Ritchey-Chretien-Coude Telescope was put into operation in 1995. Telescope produced by Carl Zeiss Jena (Germany) and is situated on Terskol Peak in the Northern Caucasus (altitude 3100 m, near mountain Elbrus). The astrophysical observatory on Terskol Peak forms a part of the International Centre for Astronomical, Medical and Ecological Research (ICAMER) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Government of Kabardino-Balkaria.