Bok Telescope Overview

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Cognizant Scientist: P. Smith
Steward Observatory Operations Manager: B. Peterson
Kitt Peak Site supervisor & resident: B. Wood
Telescope Operators: D. Means and G. Bechetti

Guidelines for Observing

Instrumentation Updates for 2008A "90Prime" is not available until Sept. 21 due to detector engineering and software upgrades.

Facility Instruments and Contact Scientists

f/2.7:

90 Prime (E. Olszewski) is a prime focus, wide-field imager using mosaiced CCDS (FOV= 1.16°x1.16°;30.2"/mm; 0.45"/px).

f/9:

B&C Spectrograph (P. Smith) provides moderate-resolution (1-5Å) with good throughput from 3200Å to the near-IR. A provision exists for multi-order "echellette" spectroscopy with a cross-dispersion prism, providing 1--2Å resolution and complete coverage over 3200 -- 8000Å.

Principal Investigator (PI) Instruments and Contact Scientists

f/9:

PISCES (D. McCarthy) is a 1-2.5 micron wide-field imager with FOV=8.1 arcmin (0.5"/px).

SPOL (G. Schmidt) is a CCD imager/spectropolarimeter providing spectral resolutions of 4-15Å from 3800-9000Å. In the imaging mode, polarization maps can be obtained in filtered bandpasses at the seeing limit over a field of view 51" square.

f/45:

256x256 (G/M Rieke) is a 1-2.5 micron camera (0.24 or 0.6 "/px)

FSPEC (G/M Rieke) is a long-slit 1.4-2.5 micron spectrometer.