Instrumentation

Available:

• Spectrophotometer LFOSC. Built by, and operated in collaboration with, the LSW Observatory Heidelberg. Faint Object Spectrograp Camera with a focal reducer. The detector is a CCD 576x384. It performs:
  • BVRI(Halpha) photometry on a 10x6 arcmin field, with 1arcsec/pix
  • low resolution spectroscopy in two modes: (1) 7.5A/pixel between 4000 and 9000A; (2) 5.5A/pixel between 4500 and 7500A.
  • multi-object capability in the 10x6 arcmin FOV through multi-slit masks.
  • Real life limits: spectroscopy of magnitude 19 in three hours
    Images down to B~23, V~22.5, R~22.5 and I~21.5 in two hours.
  Photo here.
• Boller and Chivens Spectrograph with CCD TEX 1024x1024 and the following gratings:
  • 150/mm for use around 5000A giving 3.2A/pixel (approx) at m=1
  • 300/mm for use around 5000A giving 1.6A/pixel (approx) at m=1
  • 300/mm for use around 7500A giving 1.6A/pixel (approx) at m=1
  • 600/mm for use around 7500A giving 0.8A/pixel (approx) at m=1
  • 830/mm for use around 8000A giving 0.3A/pixel (approx) at m=2
  Photo here.
• INAOE guider for direct imaging (no focal reducer) with the CCD TEK for UBVRI(+ other filters) photometry with 0.4 arcsec/pixel spatial resolution.
• Eber-Fastie fiber optic spectrograph: for high resolution spectroscopy. Please contact ocardona@inaoep.mx

Coming soon:

• The multifiber spectrograph Autofib 1.5, in collaboration with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Now in Cananea ready for a 1999 commisioning.

A longer term project:

• INAOE infrared camera.

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