- Location
- latitude: 49° 54′ 54.6″ North
- longitude: 14° 46′ 51.6″ East
- altitude: 528 m
- Manufacturer: Carl Zeiss Jena (project: Alfred Jensch)
- Type of mount: equatorial
- Primary mirror
- parabolic, diameter 2 m, thickness 0.3 m, weight 2340 kg
- focal length 9 m (f/4.5)
- Current optical design
- optical fibers from primary focus (spectroscopy)
- CCD camera with corrector in primary focus (photometry)
- Optical fibers
- active core diameter 0.1 mm
- CeramOptec technology
- octagonal type
- Instrumentation
- single order spectrograph (fiber fed, 2 fibers)
- echelle spectrograph (fiber fed, 1 fiber)
- photometric camera (in primary focus with corrector)