Instrument Description
Instrument Team
| Built by: | European Southern Observatory Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoli. |
| P.I.: | Klaus Meisenheimer (MPIA) |
| Instrument Scientists: | Fernando Selman |
| System Engineer: | Peter Sinclaire |
| Instrument Friend: | NA |
| Location: | La Silla 2.2m MPG/ESO telescope, Cassegrain focus |
Instrument Features
- Instrument Layout
- WFI filters and their characteristics (tar.gz file)
- Image Quality (historic seeing statistics)
- Image statistics (old but useful info)
Instrument Performance
- New WFI Health Check pages (pipeline based)
- QC0: WFI CCD page (Current Read-out noise, Gain, Bias and Flat Field statistics)
- QC1: Quality control and trending of dome/sky flats (old)
- BADPIXEL masks (old)
- Fringing pattern in the Ic/Iwp_ESO#845 filter
- Photometric Zero Points: equations; nightly monitoring.
- MPG/ESO 2.2m Telescope Baffle history, Mirror reflectivity history.