After quick makeover, KPNO camera sees redder better
The Mosaic-3 camera, mounted on the 4-m Mayall, is on a two-year mission to image the sky in preparation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. Now equipped with cutting-edge, red-sensitive charge-coupled devices (CCDs, top inset image) and new mechanical components (including the focal plate; bottom inset image), Mosaic-3 is the product of a small collaboration of scientists and engineers at Berkeley Lab, Yale University, and NOAO.
Credit:T. Hurteau, Yale, P. Marenfeld & NOAO/AURA/NSF
About the Image
Id: | noaoann16004a |
Type: | Collage |
Release date: | Feb. 4, 2016 |
Related announcements: | noaoann16004 |
Size: | 1500 x 1000 px |
About the Object
Category: | Kitt Peak National Observatory |