TAUKAM: a new prime-focus camera for the Tautenburg Schmidt Telescope

Bringfried Stecklum; Jochen Eislöffel; Sylvio Klose; Uwe Laux; Tom Löwinger; Helmut Meusinger; Michael Pluto; Johannes Winkler; Frank Dionies

doi:10.1117/12.2232872

9 August 2016 TAUKAM: a new prime-focus camera for the Tautenburg Schmidt Telescope

Bringfried Stecklum, Jochen Eislöffel, Sylvio Klose, Uwe Laux, Tom Löwinger, Helmut Meusinger, Michael Pluto, Johannes Winkler, Frank Dionies

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Proceedings Volume 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI; 99084U (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232872
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

TAUKAM stands for "TAUtenburg KAMera", which will become the new prime-focus imager for the Tautenburg Schmidt telescope. It employs an e2v 6kx6k CCD and is under manufacture by Spectral Instruments Inc. We describe the design of the instrument and the auxiliary components, its specifications as well as the concept for integrating the device into the telescope infrastructure. First light is foreseen in 2017. TAUKAM will boost the observational capabilities of the telescope for what concerns optical wide-field surveys.

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Bringfried Stecklum, Jochen Eislöffel, Sylvio Klose, Uwe Laux, Tom Löwinger, Helmut Meusinger, Michael Pluto, Johannes Winkler, and Frank Dionies "TAUKAM: a new prime-focus camera for the Tautenburg Schmidt Telescope", Proc. SPIE 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, 99084U (9 August 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232872

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