William Herschel
Telescope
FastCam
First light: 27 November, 2007.
Last commissioning:
Designed and built by: FastCam is a private instrument and it was developed by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT).
Description:
FastCam is an imaging camera that takes very short exposures in the optical wavelength range. By selecting the data least affected by the atmospheric turbulence, FastCam can produce very high-resolution images.
More information:
More photos of this instrument: http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/archive/wht/instruments.html
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