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

Velasco, S.; Etxegarai, Urtats; Oscoz, A.; López, R. L.; Puga, M.; Murga, Gaizka; Pérez-Garrido, Antonio; Pallé, E.; Ricci, D.; Ayuso, I.; Hernández-Sánchez, Mónica; Truant, N.
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Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9908, id. 99082O 7 pp. (2016).

Fecha de publicación:
8
2016
Número de autores
12
Número de autores del IAC
8
Número de citas
1
Número de citas referidas
1
Descripción
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.