First light (at ING): February 1995. First scheduled observing: September 1995.
De-commissioned: 1999
Designed and built by:
Oxford University, in collaboration with ROE.
Description:
WHIRCAM is an infrared imaging camera mounted in GHRIL, based on a Santa Barbara Research Corporation (SBRC) 256 × 256 element InSb array. WHIRCAM also serves as the science detector for the Durham prototype adaptive-optics system MARTINI and ELECTRA. More: WHIRCAM Manual.
Time allocations:
Nights scheduled since semester 2007B
Instrument information: https://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/telescopes/wht/whircam.html