Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Dr. Renate Kupke of UCO/Lick for her assistance with transmission curves, Elinor Gates at Lick Observatory for providing filter curves and sky background data, Dick Joyce at NOAO for pointers about the near-IR sky, Dr. James Graham of U.C. Berkeley for information about IRCAL.



Srikar Srinath 2013-10-09