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Paper Abstract
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.
Paper Details
Date Published: 28 July 2014
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, 91476Q (28 July 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2057127
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9147:
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V
Suzanne K. Ramsay; Ian S. McLean; Hideki Takami, Editor(s)
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, 91476Q (28 July 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2057127
Show Author Affiliations
Gaizka Murga, IDOM (Spain)
Alejandro Oscoz, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain)
Roberto López, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain)
Alejandro Oscoz, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain)
Roberto López, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain)
Ramón Campo, IDOM (Spain)
Urtats Etxegarai, IDOM (Spain)
Enric Pallé, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain)
Urtats Etxegarai, IDOM (Spain)
Enric Pallé, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9147:
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V
Suzanne K. Ramsay; Ian S. McLean; Hideki Takami, Editor(s)
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