Specifications and limiting magnitudes (60-second integration, equivalent to S/N=10 Vega magnitude) of imaging instruments.
Instrument | Telescope | FOV(‘x’) | Pixel Scale(“) | Limiting Magnitude(mag) | Remarks | Person in Charge |
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MSI | 1.6m Pirka | 3.3 x 3.3 | 0.389 | 17.3U 20.0B 19.9V 19.8Rc 18.7Ic | Narrow-band, Broad-band, liquid crystal tunable filter, EM CCD mode | Saito |
MuSaSHI | 0.55m SaCRA | 32.9 x 32.0 | 1.87@PF 0.73@Cas | 16.8r 17.1i 17.2z | Upper is the primary focus, lower is the Cassegrain focus. riz simultaenous, imaging, polarization | Oasa |
Tomo-e Gozen | 1.05m Schmidt | 9 deg Φ | 1.17 | 19 | no filter, 2-fps readout | Takita |
MITSuME | 0.5m MITSuME Akeno | 28 x 28 | 1.64 | 16.7g’ 16.6Rc 15.8Ic | g’RcIc simultaneous | Ichiro Takahashi |
SIRIUS | 1.4m IRSF | 7.7 x 7.7 | 0.453 | 17.7J 17.1H 15.8K | JHK simultaneous, Polarization mode, ND filter, Pa β, Br γ, [FeII], H2 filter | Kusune |
TriCCS | 3.8m Seimei | Refer to the link below the table | Nogami | |||
Visible CCD | Kyoto University 0.4m | 11.5 x 11.5 | 1.3 | 18.2C | UBVRI filter | Nogami |
NIC | 2.0m Nayuta | 2.7 x 2.7 | 0.16 | 15.6J 15.7H 14.7K | JHK simultaneous | Jun Takahashi |
WFGS2 | 2.0m Nayuta | 6.8 x 6.8 | 0.20 | 18.2B 18.5V 18.5Rc 18.0Ic | g’ r’, i’, with wide-Halpha filter | Jun Takahashi |
MITSuME | 0.5m MITSuME Okayama | 26 x 26 | 1.52 | 16.9g’ 17.0Rc 15.9Ic | g’RcIc simultaneous | Murata |
HOWPol | 1.5m Kanata | 15 Φ | 0.29 | 18.4B 19.2V 19.4R 19.1I | z’,Hα filter, simultaneous polarization of 2 components | Nakaoka |
HONIR | 1.5m Kanata | 10×10 | 0.29 | 17.5B 18.6V 18.7R 18.5I 16.6J 15.6H 14.7Ks | Visible and near-infrared simultaneous in two colors | Nakaoka |
kSIRIUS | Kagoshima University 1.0m | 3.7 x 2.9 | 0.69 | 16.3J 15.3H 14.5Ks (270-second integration, S/N=10) | JHKs simultaneous | Nagayama |
MITSuME | 1.05m Murikabushi | 12.3 x 12.3 | 0.72 | 18.7g’ 19.0Rc 17.8Ic | g’RcIc simultaneous | Hanayama, Hayatsu |
For details on the Seimei Telescope TriCCS, please refer to:
Check here for the person in charge of the telescope.