Instrument Feature	Wide Field Imaging	Meade 16 Student Research	Fast Echelle	WISPI	Celestron/Planewave CDK20 Imaging/Photometry	Celestron/Planewave CDK20 Photometry	RC Optical RC24 Fast Imaging	RC Optical RC24 SWIR	RC Optical RC24 NIR
Optics	Nikor Lens 61 mm aperture	Schmidt Cassegrain 0.4 meter	Echelle grating 110x220 mm - 316 gr/mm	Grating blazed for 1 micron 110x110mm	Corrected Dall Kirkham 0.5 meter	Corrected Dall Kirkham 0.5 meter	Ritchie Chretien 0.6 meter	Ritchie Chretien 0.6 meter	Ritchie Chretien 0.6 meter
Focal Length	85 mm	4064 mm	500 mm	Objective: 400 mm f/4 Camera: 200 mm f/2	3454 mm	3454 mm	4877 mm	4877 mm	4877 mm
F-ratio	f/1.4	f/10.0	f/6.25	f/4.0	f/6.8	f/6.8	f/8.0	f/8.0	f/8.0
Scale	0.674 °/mm	50.75 "/mm	Sky: 4.2"/fiber Spectrum: 0.069Å/pixel	Sky: 8.06 '/mm Spectrum: 163 Å/mm	59.72 "/mm	59.72 "/mm	42.29"/mm	42.29"/mm	42.29"/mm
Detector	Nikon D200	SBIG ST-9E KAF-0261E	SBIG STL-1001E KAF-1001E	Apogee AP8 SITE-1024B	SBIG STL-6303E KAF-6303E	SBIG ST-10XME KAF-3200ME	Photron FASTCAM-APX	Goodrich SUI SU640KTSX-1.7RT	Apogee U9000 KAF-09000
Array	3872 x 2592	512 x 512	1024 x 1024	1024 x 1024	3072 x 2048	2184 x 1472	1024 x 1024	640 x 512	3056 x 3056
Dimensions	23.6 x 15.8 mm	10.24 x 10.24 mm	24.58 x 24.58 mm	25.6 x 25.6 mm	27.65 x 18.43 mm	14.85 x 10.01 mm	17.4 x 17.4 mm	16.0 x 12.8 mm	36.7 x 36.7 mm
Pixel Size	6.09 microns	20 microns	24 microns	24 microns	9 microns	6.8 microns	17 microns	25 microns	12 microns
Detector Notes	Color Bayer matrix	Class 1	Class 2	Thinned Back illuminated Class 2	Class 2	Class 1	Class 1	InGaAs	Class 1
Location	Tandem on C20 Moore and Mt. Kent	Roll Roof	RC24 at Moore C20 at Mt. Kent	Roll Roof or at Mt. Kent	Sirius Dome Mt. Kent	Sirius Dome	Ash Dome	Ash Dome	Ash Dome
Status	Operational	Operational	Testing on RC24 March 2009	New drive March 2009	Remote use Operational	Remote use On request	Research use	Research use	Research use
Purpose	Education	Undergraduate student projects	Research	Research	Digital Science Partnership	Digital Science Partnership	Space Technology Research	Space Technology Research	Space Technology Research
Application	Wide field color imaging	Imaging and photometry	High resolution spectroscopy	Low resolution spectroscopy	Imaging	High resolution imaging Photometry	Visible Atmosphere characterization	SWIR Sensor development	NIR Sensor development
Field of View	15.8° x 10.6°	8.66' x 8.66'	Sky: 34" (61 fiber bundle) Spectrum: 70 Å	Sky: 3.3° Spectrum: 3800 - 10000 Å	27.5' x 18.3'	14.8' x 10.0'	12.3' x 12.3'	11.2' x 9.0'	25.8' x 25.8'
Resolution	14.8"	1.01"	Sky: 4.2"/fiber Spectrum: 96,000 (0.069 Å/pixel)	Sky: 11.6"/pixel Spectrum: 1,700 (3.9 Å/pixel)	0.54"	0.41"	0.71"	1.05"	0.51"
Full Well Digitized Capacity	32,000 e-	150,000 e-	200,000 e-	300,000 e-	100,000 e-	77,000 e-	~	25,000,000 e-	110,000 e-
Dark Current e-/pix/s	~8 e- @ 0C	4 e- @ 0C	0.18 e- @ -20 C	9 e- @ -20C	0.3 e- @ 0C	0.5 e- @ 0C	~	~	0.3 e- @ -20C
Read Noise rms	10 e-	15 e-	15 e-	15 e-	13 e-	10 e-	~	125 e-	7 e-
Gain e-/ADU	8.0	2.2	2.0	~5	2.4	1.3	~	~12	2.0
Interface	USB 2.0	USB 1.1	USB 1.1	Parallel	USB 1.1	USB 1.1	Gigabit/s Ethernet	12-bit Camera Link	USB 2.0
Full Frame Download	~10 seconds	<1 second	~2.5 seconds	~35 seconds	~15 seconds	~8.7 seconds	~333 microseconds	17 milliseconds	~20 seconds
Filters	BW489 (IR Block)	CFW10 RGBLC+UBVRI	Spectroscopy	Spectroscopy	STL UBVRI	CFW10 RGBLC+UBVRI	~	900 nm to 1.7 microns Unfiltered	Optec IFW UBVRI+Narrowband