The Gornergrat Kulm Hotel is a hotel and observatory located on the Gornergrat , at 3,120 metres above sea level. It can be reached from Zermatt via the Gornergrat railway , the terminus station being located 100 metres away. The hotel includes an observatory, two restaurants and a small shopping mall.
3-656: The Telescopio InfraRosso del Gornergrat ( TIRGO ), or the Gornergrat Infrared Telescope , was located on the northern tower of the Kulm Hotel at Gornergrat (3,135 metres (10,285 ft) altitude) near Zermatt , Switzerland . It was a 1.5-metre (4.9 ft) Cassegrain telescope with a tip-tilt correcting secondary and optimized for infrared observations, but was decommissioned in March 2005. The telescope and related instrumentation were run by
6-741: The Istituto di Radioastronomia (IRA - C.N.R.), sezione di Firenze (former CAISMI), with the assistance of the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri and the Dipartimento di Astronomia e Scienza dello Spazio of the University of Florence . This telescope -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Swiss building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gornergrat Kulm Hotel A first hotel
9-474: Was built on the Gornergrat in 1896, two years before the completion of the Gornergrat rack railway. As the tourist traffic increased, the current larger hotel was built between 1897 and 1907. Given the clean air and good light conditions of the area, a dome was built on each of the two towers of the hotel in 1996. The KOSMA telescope was installed in the southern tower while the Gornergrat Infrared Telescope
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