Magellan Instruments

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.