WFC: Wide-Field Camera

First light (at ING): May 1997.

De-commissioned: 11th June 2024

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.

Time allocations:
Nights scheduled since semester 2007B

Instrument information: http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/instruments/wfc/

Research impact:

Scientific highlights (65)

Publications (1021 from ING paper count; else: 1)

Public outreach:

Media releases (52)

Multimedia:

Photo archive (8)

Video archive (6)