IMACS PROJECT
Status:
August 19th, 2003
First Light! IMACS had first light with the f/2 camera on 8/18/03. Click the link below to view the image. The initial installation campaign ended on 8/16/03, and the first commissioning ran 8/17/03 through 8/20/03. The instrument is shown here fully installed on the Baade telescope west Nasmyth platform.
First Light! IMACS had first light with the f/2 camera on 8/18/03. Click the link below to view the image. The initial installation campaign ended on 8/16/03, and the first commissioning ran 8/17/03 through 8/20/03. The instrument is shown here fully installed on the Baade telescope west Nasmyth platform.
Overview:
The Inamori Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph (IMACS) is a wide-field imager and multi-object spectrograph for the Baade (Magellan I) telescope. In the f/11 Gregorian configuration, with an integral ADC and field corrector mounted at the tertiary mirror (not yet installed), the transmitting, all-spherical collimator in IMACS produces a well corrected, unvignetted field of 24 arcmin in diameter (and a slightly vignetted field of 30 arc-min in diameter).
Two cameras are used to re-image the 150mm diameter collimator exit pupil, with plate scales of 0.111 and 0.200 arcsec/pixel. An all-spherical, f/4 camera can directly image a 15 x 15 arcmin FOV, or spectroscopically image a 15 arcmin long slit with a variety of standard 150 x 200 mm diffraction gratings. The optically athermalized f/2 camera, with two aspheres and four liquid (oil) lenses, can directly image a 27 x 27 arcmin FOV, or spectroscopically image a 27 arcmin long slit with one of three standard 150mm aperture grisms. Both cameras use the same 8192 x 8192 CCD array, which interchanges between the two cameras.
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