The WFC (Wide Field Camera) is an optical mosaic camera for use at the prime focus of the 2.5m INT.

The WFC consists of 4 thinned EEV 2kx4k CCDs. The CCDs have a pixel size of 13.5 microns corresponding to 0.33 arcsec/pixel. The edge to edge limit of the mosaic, neglecting the ~1 arcmin inter-chip spacing, is 34.2 arcmins. The cycle time for the whole mosaic is around 42 seconds. Starting August 2010 and on a shared-risk basis, binning is supported for all chips and windowing and/or binning are supported for chip 4 only (more info here). Both broadband and Stromgren filtersets are available, as well as a range of narrowband filters.

IMPORTANT: in case a long run is going to be covered by several observers, please let us know well in advance so that student support can be scheduled each time a new team goes up.

NEW NARROWBAND FILTERS
On 2005 and 2006, we have received the following new filters:

Filter name	Central lambda [Angstrom]	FWHM [Angstrom]	Peak Transmission [%]
Hbeta narrow	4861	30
Hbeta broad	4861	170
He I	5869	43	87
Ha redshifted #227	6657	79	90
Ha redshifted #228	6805	93	95
Ha redshifted #226	6892	99	90