Bibcode
Murga, Gaizka; Sanquirce, Rubén; Campo, Ramón; Oscoz, A.; López, R.; Rebolo, R.
Bibliographical reference
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III. Edited by McLean, Ian S.; Ramsay, Suzanne K.; Takami, Hideki. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7735, pp. 77353E-77353E-6 (2010).
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Description
FastCam is an instrument jointly developed by the Instituto de
Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad
Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT), designed to obtain high
spatial resolution images in the optical wavelength range from
ground-based telescopes (http://www.iac.es/proyecto/fastcam and
http://www.iac.es/telescopes/Manuales/manualfastcam.pdf). The instrument
is equipped with a very low noise and very fast readout speed EMCCD
camera which provides short exposure images to an FPGA-based processor
which performs the selection, recenterg and combination of images in
real-time (applying Lucky Imaging techniques) to provide diffraction
limited resolution images in 1-4 m class telescopes from 500 to 1100 nm.
IDOM has contributed to this new state-of-the-art instrument with the
design of an optomechanical system conceived to maximize the image scale
stability of the system for astrometry. The combination of aluminum
plates, carbon fiber (CFRP) rods and stainless steel mounts in the
optical bench defines an athermalized and stiff design to meet the
requirements of thermal and mechanical stability. This work has been
done with the support of the Aerospace Subprogramme of the Spanish
Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) and the INTEK
programme of the Basque Development Agency (SPRI).