Kast Spectrograph coordinates
These diagrams are still in draft form.
They may disagree with the optics and/or the software.
coordinates for the 2016 Kast red 1024*4096 Hamamatsu CCD
as a PDF file
coordinates for the Kast blue 2kx2k Fairchild CCD 3041
as a PDF file
Ming Zhi Wei reports that this CCD 3041 is
back illuminated,
not
front illuminated.
In normal operation the ucam is told to use image idcode 6 (which
selects the amplifiers on the serial register at the top of the
dewar as installed in Kast blue) and to flip the rows.
If image idcode 4 is selected then the ucam attempts to use the
amplifiers of the other serial register (at the bottom as
installed in Kast blue). In a test on 2011-03-09 such images
had zero pixel values from the lower right amplifier.
We do not know which way the CCD was installed, so we do not know
which serial register in the one along pins 1 thru 23 and which
serial register is the one along pins 24 thru 46.
These diagrams are a synthesis of the contents of what should be
several separate diagrams and documents.
The engineering diagrams documenting the Kast focal planes
should not include
-
the device names of the CCDs
-
the designations of the video inputs
-
the FITS coordinates
This is a draft. It all deserves double checking.
Please let me know if anything seems awry.
The FITS coordinates can be redefined, but the current
coordinates indicate the manner in which the UCAM
code writes the pixels into the FITS image array.
coordinates for the old Kast red 1200x400 Reticon CCD
as a PDF file
For a diagram showing the silicon layout of the Reticon CCD see
1990ASPC....8..100C.
Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org>
Initial deployment 2011-03-02T00:00
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