MegaCam: the new Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope wide-field imaging camera

Details MegaCam: the new Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope wide-field imaging camera MegaCam: the new Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope wide-field imaging camera

Mar 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003spie.4841...72b&link_type=abstract

Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes. Edited by Iye, Masanori; Moorwood, Alan F. M.

Computer Science

Performance

75

Scientific paper

MegaCam is an imaging camera with a 1 square degree field of view for the new prime focus of the 3.6 meter Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. This instrument will mainly be used for large deep surveys ranging from a few to several thousands of square degrees in sky coverage and from 24 to 28.5 in magnitude. The camera is built around a CCD mosaic approximately 30 cm square, made of 40 large thinned CCD devices for a total of 20 K x 18 K pixels. It uses a custom CCD controller, a closed cycle cryocooler based on a pulse tube, a 1 m diameter half-disk as a shutter, a juke-box for the selection of the filters, and programmable logic controllers and fieldbus network to control the different subsystems. The instrument was delivered to the observatory on June 10, 2002 and first light is scheduled in early October 2002.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

MegaCam: the new Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope wide-field imaging camera does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with MegaCam: the new Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope wide-field imaging camera, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and MegaCam: the new Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope wide-field imaging camera will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1168887