%0 Journal Article %T The Chromospheric Telescope %A C. Bethge %A H. Peter %A T. J. Kentischer %A C. Halbgewachs %A D. F. Elmore %A C. Beck %J Physics %D 2011 %I arXiv %R 10.1051/0004-6361/201117456 %X We introduce the Chromospheric Telescope (ChroTel) at the Observatorio del Teide in Izana on Tenerife as a new multi-wavelength imaging telescope for full-disk synoptic observations of the solar chromosphere. We describe the design of the instrument and summarize its performance during the first one and a half years of operation. We present a method to derive line-of-sight velocity maps of the full solar disk from filtergrams taken in and near the He I infrared line at 10830 \AA. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4880v1