Moore Observatory
Telescopes and Instrumentation




Instrument
Feature
Wide Field Imaging Meade 16
Student Research
Fast Echelle WISPI Celestron/Planewave CDK20
Imaging/Photometry
Celestron/Planewave CDK20
Photometry
RC Optical RC24
Fast Imaging
RC Optical RC24
SWIR
RC Optical RC24
NIR
Optics Nikor Lens
61 mm aperture
Schmidt Cassegrain
0.4 meter
Echelle grating
110x220 mm - 316 gr/mm
Grating blazed for 1 micron
110x110mm
Corrected Dall Kirkham
0.5 meter
Corrected Dall Kirkham
0.5 meter
Ritchie Chretien
0.6 meter
Ritchie Chretien
0.6 meter
Ritchie Chretien
0.6 meter
Focal Length 85 mm 4064 mm 500 mm Objective: 400 mm f/4
Camera: 200 mm f/2
3454 mm 3454 mm 4877 mm 4877 mm 4877 mm
F-ratio f/1.4 f/10.0 f/6.25 f/4.0 f/6.8 f/6.8 f/8.0 f/8.0 f/8.0
Scale 0.674 °/mm 50.75 "/mm Sky: 4.2"/fiber
Spectrum:  0.069Å/pixel
Sky: 8.06 '/mm
Spectrum: 163 Å/mm
59.72 "/mm 59.72 "/mm 42.29"/mm 42.29"/mm 42.29"/mm
Detector Nikon D200 SBIG ST-9E
KAF-0261E
SBIG STL-1001E
KAF-1001E
Apogee AP8
SITE-1024B
SBIG STL-6303E
KAF-6303E
SBIG ST-10XME
KAF-3200ME
Photron
FASTCAM-APX
Goodrich SUI
SU640KTSX-1.7RT
Apogee U9000
KAF-09000
Array 3872 x 2592 512 x 512 1024 x 1024 1024 x 1024 3072 x 2048 2184 x 1472 1024 x 1024 640 x 512 3056 x 3056
Dimensions 23.6 x 15.8 mm 10.24 x 10.24 mm 24.58 x 24.58 mm 25.6 x 25.6 mm 27.65 x 18.43 mm 14.85 x 10.01 mm 17.4 x 17.4 mm 16.0 x 12.8 mm 36.7 x 36.7 mm
Pixel Size 6.09 microns 20 microns 24 microns 24 microns 9 microns 6.8 microns 17 microns 25 microns 12 microns
Detector Notes Color
Bayer matrix
Class 1 Class 2
Thinned
Back illuminated
Class 2
Class 2 Class 1 Class 1 InGaAs Class 1
Location Tandem on C20
Moore and Mt. Kent
Roll Roof RC24 at Moore
C20 at Mt. Kent
Roll Roof
or at Mt. Kent
Sirius Dome
Mt. Kent
Sirius Dome Ash Dome Ash Dome Ash Dome
Status Operational Operational Testing on RC24
March 2009
New drive
March 2009
Remote use
Operational
Remote use
On request
Research use Research use Research use
Purpose Education Undergraduate student projects Research Research Digital Science Partnership Digital Science Partnership Space Technology Research Space Technology Research Space Technology Research
Application Wide field color imaging Imaging and photometry High resolution spectroscopy Low resolution spectroscopy Imaging High resolution imaging
Photometry
Visible
Atmosphere characterization
SWIR
Sensor development
NIR
Sensor development
Field of View 15.8° x 10.6° 8.66' x 8.66' Sky: 34" (61 fiber bundle)
Spectrum: 70 Å
Sky: 3.3°
Spectrum: 3800 - 10000 Å
27.5' x 18.3' 14.8' x 10.0' 12.3' x 12.3' 11.2' x 9.0' 25.8' x 25.8'
Resolution 14.8" 1.01" Sky: 4.2"/fiber
Spectrum: 96,000 (0.069 Å/pixel)
Sky: 11.6"/pixel
Spectrum: 1,700 (3.9 Å/pixel)
0.54" 0.41" 0.71" 1.05" 0.51"
Full Well Digitized Capacity 32,000 e- 150,000 e- 200,000 e- 300,000 e- 100,000 e- 77,000 e- ~ 25,000,000 e- 110,000 e-
Dark Current
e-/pix/s
~8 e- @ 0C 4 e- @ 0C 0.18 e- @ -20 C 9 e- @ -20C 0.3 e- @ 0C 0.5 e- @ 0C ~ ~ 0.3 e- @ -20C
Read Noise
rms
10 e- 15 e- 15 e- 15 e- 13 e- 10 e- ~ 125 e- 7 e-
Gain
e-/ADU
8.0 2.2 2.0 ~5 2.4 1.3 ~ ~12 2.0
Interface USB 2.0 USB 1.1 USB 1.1 Parallel USB 1.1 USB 1.1 Gigabit/s Ethernet 12-bit Camera Link USB 2.0
Full Frame Download ~10 seconds <1 second ~2.5 seconds ~35 seconds ~15 seconds ~8.7 seconds ~333 microseconds 17 milliseconds ~20 seconds
Filters BW489 (IR Block)
CFW10
RGBLC+UBVRI
Spectroscopy Spectroscopy STL
UBVRI
CFW10
RGBLC+UBVRI
~ 900 nm to 1.7 microns
Unfiltered
Optec IFW
UBVRI+Narrowband




Updated March 23, 2009