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IRCAM/TUFTI Sky Brightness, Background Limited Exposures and Saturation Magnitudes for Full Array, Standard Readout

Filter Bias Sky Counts Sky Brightness Background Saturation
  Setting /second/pixel Mag/sq.arcsec. Limit exp. Mag.
        seconds 0.5" seeing
J Standard 6 15.7 60 8.5
H   40 13.6 15 8.8
K   40 13.0 15 8.0
2.1cont   1.3   500 4.0
2.248 S1   3.2   200 5.0
3.1 ice   320   2  
3.4nbL   3200   0.2  
3.5mbL   9900   0.07  
4.0cont, Br Alpha   9400   0.07  
L' Deepwell 7.8e4 3.4   5.0
M'   1.7e5 0.5   4.0

Contact: Sandy Leggett. Updated: Thu Oct 7 15:27:16 HST 2004

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