T. L. Hayward
J. R. Houck
J. W. Miles
Center for Radiophysics and Space Research
Cornell University
This manual describes the operation of SpectroCam-10. If you would like a copy in printed, Postscript, or LaTex format, or if you have any comments, please contact:
... or any other member of the SC-10 project at Cornell.
An instrument like SpectroCam-10 requires the dedicated efforts of many individuals to make it successful. At Cornell, George Gull assisted with many aspects of the instrument's mechanical design, construction and maintenance. Terry Herter led the development of the detector control electronics and software from which these SpectroCam-10 components are derived, and worked closely with Rockwell to improve steadily the quality of their detectors. Bruce Pirger helped us to operate the detectors and control electronics. Justin Schoenwald wrote the Sun workstation instrument control software, and Randy Butturini built some of the electronics required to interface our instrument to observatory equipment. Brian Min helped produce several of the figures in this manual. We thank Russell Wallace of Wallace Instruments for building the detector electronics, Dick Gummer of Precision Cryogenics, Inc. for building us an excellent dewar, and Keith Matthews at Caltech for helping to interface our instrument to the 200-inch telescope and its infrared equipment. We are very grateful to Bob Thicksten, Merle Sweet, Juan Carrasco, Mike Doyle, John Henning, James Hickey, Will McKinley, John Moriarity, Skip Staples, Dave Tennant, and Greg Van Idsinga at Palomar for their tireless support of our operations at the observatory.