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20 October 1993 ARNICA: the Arcetri Observatory NICMOS3 imaging camera
Franco Lisi, Carlo Baffa, Leslie K. Hunt
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Abstract
ARNICA (ARcetri Near Infrared CAmera) is the imaging camera for the near infrared bands between 1.0 and 2.5 micrometers that Arcetri Observatory has designed and built as a general facility for the TIRGO telescope (1.5 m diameter, f/20) located at Gornergrat (Switzerland). The scale is 1' per pixel, with sky coverage of more than 4' X 4' on the NICMOS 3 (256 X 256 pixels, 40 micrometers side) detector array. The optical path is compact enough to be enclosed in a 25.4 cm diameter dewar; the working temperature is 76 K. The camera is remotely controlled by a 486 PC, connected to the array control electronics via a fiber-optics link. A C-language package, running under MS-DOS on the 486 PC, acquires and stores the frames, and controls the timing of the array. We give an estimate of performance, in terms of sensitivity with an assigned observing time, along with some details on the main parameters of the NICMOS 3 detector.
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Franco Lisi, Carlo Baffa, and Leslie K. Hunt "ARNICA: the Arcetri Observatory NICMOS3 imaging camera", Proc. SPIE 1946, Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation, (20 October 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.158711
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KEYWORDS
Sensors

Cameras

Detector arrays

Telescopes

Electronics

Astronomy

Control systems

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