MegaCam: the new Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope wide-field imaging camera

Boulade, O.; Charlot, X.; Abbon, P.; Aune, Stéphan; Borgeaud, P.; Carton, Pierre-Henri; Carty, M.; Da Costa, J.; Deschamps, H.; Desforge, D.; Eppellé, D.; Gallais, P.; Gösset, L.; Granelli, R.; Gros, M.; de Kat, J.; Loiseau, D.; Ritou, J.-L.; Y. Roussé, Jean; Starzynski, Pierre; Vignal, N.; Vigroux, Laurent

doi:10.1117/12.459890

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MegaCam: the new Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope wide-field imaging camera

Published in Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE • Mar 7, 2003

Authors:

O. Boulade

X. Charlot

P. Abbon

Abstract

MegaCam is an imaging camera with a 1 square degree field of view for the new prime focus of the 3.6 meter Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. This instrument will mainly be used for large deep surveys ranging from a few to several thousands of square degrees in sky coverage and from 24 to 28.5 in magni...

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Telescope

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