Hectospec
|
Hectospec |
|
|
Manuals
Hectospec
Observers Cheat Sheet (1 page list of instructions) Observer Responsibilities Exposure Time Calculator
Old Operations Manual (contains important figures, but much out of date material on operations) Hectospec
Hardware Reference Manual Hectospec Data Archive for reduced data from Hectospec spectrograph. General Info Hectospec
Positioner and Spectrograph Papers Hectospec,
the MMT's 300 Optical Fiber-Fed Spectrograph Targeting
and sequencing algorithms
for the Hectospec's optical fiber robotic positioner |
PI:
Daniel Fabricant Project Engineer: Robert Fata
Dual robots reconfigure all 300 optical fibers in just 300 seconds. The spectrograph offers 5770Å of spectral coverage at ~6Å resolution in the 350 to 1000 nm band. A higher dispersion grating offering ~3Å resolution is also available. The spectrograph has been in operation since 2004.
|