Last commissioning: 1999.
Designed and built by:
Oxford University. Internal optics were designed by Eli Atad (ROE).
Description: WHIRCAM is an
infrared imaging camera, 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.
Some scientific highlights: The Search for Extrasolar very Low-mas
Objects
More information: http://www.ing.iac.es/~crb/wht/whircam.html
More photos of this instrument: http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/archive/wht/instruments.html
