Palomar 200-inch Telescope:

Telescope:

• Prime focus; with Wynne corrector.

Detector:

• Tektronix 2048 × 2048 thinned CCD
• Pixel size: 24µ
• Readout:Table below is an example, user selected binning now available 2008

  Binning	Readout (sec)	Noise (DN)
  1 × 1 2 × 2	130 40	11 16

Operating Modes:

Offset Guider:

• 2 × 30 arcmin field

Mounting Base:

• Rotational accuracy < 2 arcmin

Slits:

• Slots for 6 slit masks (masks on photographic film; 2 weeks minimum to produce)

Grisms:

• Slots for 4 grisms or narrow-band interference filters

Filters:

• Slots for 7 filters
• Grisms: Note, there is an H-alpha filter in the grism wheel

  Grism	Blaze	Dispersion	Resolution
  600 l/mm 300 l/mm	4800Å 5500Å	1.6 Å/pixel 3.1 Å/pixel	1 arcsec = 4Å 1 arcsec = 8Å

• Filters:

  Filter	Lambdac	Delta Lambda
  g r i B V R	5000Å 6550Å 8000Å 4300Å 5400Å 6200Å	800Å 900Å 1800Å 1000Å 1000Å 800Å

• User filters:
  • Diameter: 4 inches
  • Thickness: 2 mm (min); 8 mm (max)

Instrument Control:

• Labview Based GUIs running on control room Linux box
• IRAF Data Processing and scripts
• FITS file output to disk