National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Camera (NAOJ Camera)

First light: April 1996.

Last commissioning: 

Designed and built by: NAO Japan and University of Tokyo.

Description: The NAOJ Camera is a prototype of the instrument planned for the Subaru Japanese large telescope project. The instrument is an array 0f 40 1024×1024 CCDs, each with 15 micron pixels. The gap between the CCDs is about equal to the size of the CCDs, and a single widefield (50×30 arcmin) image is generated from a set of 4 exposures.

Some scientific highlights:

• A photometric and spectroscopic study of dwarf and giant galaxies in the Coma cluster (2003)

More information: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/%7Ergm/mccd/mccd_ao_98a.html

More photos of this instrument: http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/archive/wht/instruments.html