The Prime Focus Imaging Platform (PFIP) or Prime Focus Camera is an optical mosaic camera for
use at the prime focus of the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope. Some historical aspects of PFIP are summarised at the public information web pages.
PFIP consists of two EEV 2k×4k CCDs, giving a pixel scale of 0.24" and a field of view
16.2'×16.2' (the gap between the two chips is 9" across). A selection of filters is available.
The filter wheel can hold 7 filters simultaneously. Binning and windowing of the mosaic are
supported.
You can either apply for observing time with PFIP through one of the
ING time-allocating committees
or through the
ING Service Programme.
