The Wide Field Imager at the 2.2-m MPG/ESO telescope: first views with a 67-million-facette eye.

Bibcode
1999Msngr..95...15B
Baade, D.; Meisenheimer, K.; Iwert, O.; Alonso, J.; Augusteijn, T.; Beletic, J.; Bellemann, H.; Benesch, W.; Böhm, A.; Böhnhardt, H.; Brewer, J.; Deiries, S.; Delabre, B.; Donaldson, R.; Dupuy, C.; Franke, P.; Gerdes, R.; Gilliotte, A.; Grimm, B.; Haddad, N.; Hess, G.; Ihle, G.; Klein, R.; Lenzen, R.; Lizon, J.-L.; Mancini, D.; Münch, N.; Pizarro, A.; Prado, P.; Rahmer, G.; Reyes, J.; Richardson, F.; Robledo, E.; Sanchez, F.; Silber, A.; Sinclaire, P.; Wackermann, R.; Zaggia, S.
Bibliographical reference

Messenger, No. 95, p. 15 - 16, 19 - 21

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1999
Number of authors
38
IAC number of authors
0
Citations
104
Refereed citations
90
Description
The basic capabilities of the Wide Field Imager (WFI) were described in a previous Messenger article (No. 93, p. 13; see also Table 1) which also includes a brief account of the contributions by the three participating institutes, namely ESO (Garching and La Silla), the Max-Planck- Institut für Astronomie in Heidelberg, and the Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte in Napoli. Table 1 summarises the most important characteristics. A first fairly complete version of the user manual is now offered via the WFI home page on the Web (URL: http://www.ls.eso.org/ lasilla/Telescopes/2p2T/E2p2M/WFI/WFI. html). The same page also provides access to some examples of pictures obtained with the instrument. An exposure time calculator is available under the URL: http://www.eso.org/observing/etc/
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Non-refereed

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