The Andalucia Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera, ALFOSC, built at the Astronomical Observatory (AO) at the Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics (NBIfAFG), is the property of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA), Granada, Spain. The NOTSA has an agreement with the IAA and AO for the loan of ALFOSC.
ALFOSC has a field of view of 6.4x6.4 arcminutes in imaging mode, and can also be used for low/medium resolution spectroscopy, and polarimetry.