Commissioning and first observations with Wide FastCam at the Telescopio Carlos Sánchez

Sergio Velasco; Urtats Etxegarai; Alejandro Oscoz; Roberto L. López; Marta Puga; Gaizka Murga; Antonio Pérez-Garrido; Enric Pallé; Davide Ricci; Ismael Ayuso; Mónica Hernández-Sánchez; Nicola Truant

doi:10.1117/12.2233023

9 August 2016 Commissioning and first observations with Wide FastCam at the Telescopio Carlos Sánchez

Sergio Velasco, Urtats Etxegarai, Alejandro Oscoz, Roberto L. López, Marta Puga, Gaizka Murga, Antonio Pérez-Garrido, Enric Pallé, Davide Ricci, Ismael Ayuso, Mónica Hernández-Sánchez, Nicola Truant

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Proceedings Volume 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI; 99082O (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233023
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The FastCam instrument platform, jointly developed by the IAC and the UPCT, allows, in real-time, acquisition, selection and storage of images with a resolution that reaches the diffraction limit of medium-sized telescopes. FastCam incorporates a specially designed software package to analyse series of tens of thousands of images in parallel with the data acquisition at the telescope. Wide FastCam is a new instrument that, using the same software for data acquisition, does not look for lucky imaging but fast observations in a much larger field of view. Here we describe the commissioning process and first observations with Wide FastCam at the Telescopio Carlos Sanchez (TCS) in the Observatorio del Teide.

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Sergio Velasco, Urtats Etxegarai, Alejandro Oscoz, Roberto L. López, Marta Puga, Gaizka Murga, Antonio Pérez-Garrido, Enric Pallé, Davide Ricci, Ismael Ayuso, Mónica Hernández-Sánchez, and Nicola Truant "Commissioning and first observations with Wide FastCam at the Telescopio Carlos Sánchez", Proc. SPIE 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, 99082O (9 August 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233023

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