WFCAM - The UKIRT Wide Field Camera

Documentation

• Description of WFCAM: Focal plane layout, Filters, Autoguider

• Performance: WFCAM zeropoints, Signal to Noise ratio calculations, Throughput, Sensitivity tables, Blank sky brightness, Twilight flat fields 

• Preparing your observations: Observing terminology, Guidelines for scientific survey MSB design, Microstepping, Calibrations (standard darks).

• WFCAM data handling: Raw data flow, Pipeline processing, Access to WFCAM data

• Frequently asked questions

• Technical information (Detector Array Characteristics, Readout Modes, Noise, Gain)

• Night time troubleshooting tips, image quality problems checklist, WFCAM focus positions and notes on focusing.
  

Engineering, Commissioning etc

• ATC WFCAM Pages
• WFCAM Commissioning Page
• Engineering History
• Fieldlens contamination images
• Running UCLIENT
• Running WFCAM with fewer than four cameras
• Safe temperature limits for operating WFCAM after a warmup
• WFCAM daytime checks
• Current M2 and internal filter offsets
  

Pretty pictures, Photos etc

• Photos of WFCAM on UKIRT

Contacts

• Watson Varricatt is the instrument scientist for WFCAM.
• Tom Kerr is the secondary support scientist.
• See the ATC WFCAM Pages for contacts at the ATC where WFCAM was built.