PF-QHY: Prime Focus QHY Camera

First light (at ING): November 2020

Designed and built by: ING

Description: The Prime Focus QHY camera (PF-QHY) is an optical back-illuminated 16-bit sCMOS camera temporarily for use at the prime focus for the new WEAVE optical corrector of the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope (WHT).

Time allocations:
Nights scheduled since semester 2007B

Instrument information: http://www.ing.iac.es/astronomy/instruments/pf-qhy/index.html

Research impact:

Scientific highlights (3)

Publications (7 from ING paper count)

Public outreach:

Media releases (8)

Multimedia:

Photo archive (3)