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Magellan 1 - Baade Telescope - Instruments f/11
The Inamori Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph (IMACS) is a very versatile wide-field imager and multi-object spectrograph.
Persson's Auxiliary Nasmyth Infrared Camera (PANIC) is a general purpose 1-2.5 micron imager.
Magellan II - Clay Telescope - Instruments f/11
The Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle (MIKE) is a high-throughput double echelle spectrograph.
MIKE fibers is multi-object fiber feed for MIKE. It is supported as a user (P.I.) instrument by M. Mateo at the University of Michigan.
The MagE (Magellan Echellette) Spectrograph is a moderate-resolution optical echellette.
Magellan II - Clay Telescope - Instruments f/5
- Megacam - Commissioning... First Science runs begin 09 April, 2010.
Megacam is a large mosaic CCD camera with a 24' x 24' field-of-view. The camera uses 36 2048 x 4608 pixel CCDs with a scale of 0.08"/pixel. Megacam is operated in campaign mode at the f/5 CASS focus.
- MMIRS - Commissioning... First Science runs begin 26 March, 2010.
MMIRS is a JHK imager and multislit spectrograph employing a 2048 by 2048 pixel Hawaii-2 array and is operated in campaign mode at the f/5 CASS focus.
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The Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph (LDSS-3) is a high efficiency, wide-field multislit spectrograph.