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Magellan 1 – Baade Telescope
Magellan 2 – Clay Telescope
- MIKE
The Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle (MIKE) is a high-throughput double echelle spectrograph. See technical specifications.
- LDSS3
The Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph (LDSS3-C) is a high efficiency, wide-field multislit spectrograph. See technical specifications.
- MEGACAM
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. See technical specifications.
- MagAO
Magellan Adaptive Optics system (VisAO and CLIO2). Continuing commissioning and science operations. See technical specifications.
Other Instruments
- PFS
The Planet Finding Spectrograph is supported as a P.I. instrument that can be installed in place of MIKE at the Clay NASE platform. See technical specifications.
- M2FS
The Michigan/Magellan Fiber Spectrograph is a P.I. instrument that can be installed in the place of MIKE at the Clay NASE platform. See technical specifications.
- PISCO
A simultaneous multi band visible imager is a P.I. instrument that can be installed in the place of MIKE at the Clay NASE platform. See technical specifications.