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WFC: Wide-Field Camera
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First light: May 1997. Designed and built by: Royal Greenwich Observatory (United Kingdom), Kapteyn Sterrenwacht Werkgroep (Holland) and the Lawerence Berkeley Laboratories (California).
Description: The WFC is based on a mosaic of four thinned 2048 x 2048 pixel Loral CCDs. These detectors were replaced by EEV CCDs in April 1998.
Information: http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/instruments/wfc/
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Publications (ING count: 894; else: 1)
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