Bibcode
Murga, G.; Oscoz, A.; López, R.; Campo, Ramón; Etxegarai, Urtats; Pallé, E.
Bibliographical reference
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9147, id. 91476Q 8 pp. (2014).
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2014
Citations
2
Refereed citations
2
Description
The FastCam instrument, 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 analyze series of tens of thousands of images in parallel with the
data acquisition at the telescope. This instrument, well tested and
used, has lead to another instrument with slightly different
characteristics: Wide FastCam. Although it uses the same software for
data acquisition, this time the objective does not look for lucky
imaging but fast observations (some frames per second) in a much larger
field of view. Wide FastCam consists of a 1k x 1k EMCCD detector and
different optics offering a ~8 arcmin FOV. IDOM collaborated with IAC in
the design of a high stability optical bench for the implementation of
FastCam at the Telescopio Carlos Sánchez (TCS) and is currently
collaborating in the implementation of Wide FastCam at the same
telescope.