Commissioning of the WWFI for the Wendelstein Fraunhofer Telescope

Claus Gössl; Ralf Bender; Maximilian Fabricius; Ulrich Hopp; Adolf Karasz; Ralf Kosyra; Florian Lang-Bardl

doi:10.1117/12.926341

5 October 2012 Commissioning of the WWFI for the Wendelstein Fraunhofer Telescope

Claus Gössl, Ralf Bender, Maximilian Fabricius, Ulrich Hopp, Adolf Karasz, Ralf Kosyra, Florian Lang-Bardl

Proceedings Volume 8446, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV; 84463P (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926341
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen operates an astrophysical observatory on the summit of Mt. Wendelstein ¹ which has been equipped with a modern 2m-class telescope.^2-4 The new Fraunhofer telescope is designed to sustain the excellent (< 0:8" median) seeing of the site [1, Fig. 1] over a FoV of 0:2 deg² utilizing a camera built around a customized 64 MPixel Mosaic (Spectral Instruments, 4 × (4k)² 15μm e2v CCDs). The Wendelstein Wide Field Imager⁵ had its commissioning in the lab in the course of the last few months and now waits to see first light on sky in the near future, i.e. when telescope commissioning allows to test science instruments.

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Claus Gössl, Ralf Bender, Maximilian Fabricius, Ulrich Hopp, Adolf Karasz, Ralf Kosyra, and Florian Lang-Bardl "Commissioning of the WWFI for the Wendelstein Fraunhofer Telescope", Proc. SPIE 8446, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV, 84463P (5 October 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926341

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