PANIC: a near-infrared camera for the Magellan telescopes

Paul Martini; S. Eric Persson; David C. Murphy; Christoph Birk; Stephen A. Shectman; Steve M. Gunnels; Erich Koch

doi:10.1117/12.551828

30 September 2004 PANIC: a near-infrared camera for the Magellan telescopes

Paul Martini, S. Eric Persson, David C. Murphy, Christoph Birk, Stephen A. Shectman, Steve M. Gunnels, Erich Koch

Proceedings Volume 5492, Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551828
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

PANIC (Persson's Auxiliary Nasmyth Infrared Camera) is a near-infrared camera designed to operate at any one of the f/11 folded ports of the 6.5m Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. The instrument is built around a simple, all-refractive design that reimages the Magellan focal plane to a plate scale of 0.125"/pixel onto a Rockwell 1024x1024 HgCdTe detector. The design goals for PANIC included excellent image quality to sample the superb seeing measured with the Magellan telescopes, high throughput, a relatively short construction time, and low cost. PANIC has now been in regular operation for over one year and has proved to be highly reliable and produce excellent images. The best recorded image quality has been ~0.2" FWHM.

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Paul Martini, S. Eric Persson, David C. Murphy, Christoph Birk, Stephen A. Shectman, Steve M. Gunnels, and Erich Koch "PANIC: a near-infrared camera for the Magellan telescopes", Proc. SPIE 5492, Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy, (30 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551828

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