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astro-ph.IM2026
What I Wish I had Known When I Began Building Astronomical Instruments
Daniel Fabricant
This paper describes lessons learned over a long career building astronomical instruments. Although these lessons are based on one person's experiences, they were learned while wor…
astro-ph.IM2025
An Integral Field Unit for the Binospec Spectrograph
Daniel Fabricant, Sagi Ben-Ami, Igor Chilingarian +5
Binospec is a wide-field optical (360 to 1000 nm) spectrograph commissioned at the MMT 6.5m telescope in 2017. In direct imaging mode Binospec addresses twin 8 (wide) by 1…