Commissioning and First Observations with Wide FastCam at the Telescopio Carlos Sánchez
arXiv:1608.04807 · doi:10.1117/12.2233023
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 Sánchez (TCS) in the Observatorio del Teide.
7 pages, 8 figures, Proc. SPIE. 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, 99082O. (August 09, 2016)