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Dr. Richard Dekany, Associate Director for Instrument Development

Palomar Telescopes

• 18" Schmidt Telescope, PI: F. Zwicky, 1936 - 2006(?) (Decommissioned)
• 200" Hale Telescope, PI: G. Hale, 1947 - Present, In Use
• 48" Samuel Oschin Telescope (Robotic), PIs: D. Hendricks, I. Bowen, et al., 1949 - Present, In Use
• 60" Telescope (Robotic), PI: ?, 1970 - Present, In Use
• Palomar Testbed Interferometer, PIs: M. Shao & M. Colavita, 1995 - 2009, Decommissioned
• Sleuth, Planet Search Telescope, PI: D. Charbonneau, 2004 - 2007, Decommissioned
• 24" Telescope, PI: M. Brown, 2006 - , Commissioning?

Palomar Instrumentation Projects (not including private instruments)

• Cass IR (IR Imager & Spectrograph, PI: T. Soifer) ? - ?, Decommissioned)
• F/9 Imager (Visible-light Imager & Guider, PI: ?) ? - ?, In Use)
• Four Shooter (Visible-light Imager, Spectrograph, and Multislit Spectrograph, PI: J. Gunn) ? - ?, Decommissioned
• Norris Spectrograph (Multi-object Fiber-fed Visible-light Spectrograph, PI: J. Cohen) ? - ?, Decommissioned
• COSMIC (High-throughput Imager & Multi-slit Spectrograph, PI: A. Dressler) ? - Present, In Use
• DBSP (Medium Resolution, Dual-channel Visible-light Spectrograph, PIs: Oke & Gunn) 1982 - Present, In Use)
  • Blue-side upgrade (PI: R. Smith) 2004
  • Red-side computer upgrade (PI: R. Smith) 2005
• SpectroCam-10 (Mid-IR Imager & Spectrograph, PI: J. Houck) 1992 - Present, In Use (Rare)
• LFC (Large Format Visible-light Camera, PI: M. Metzger) 2000 - Present, In Use
• WIRC (Large Format IR Camera, PI: T. Herter) 2001 - Present, In Use
• PALMAO (Sodium Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics, PI: R. Dekany) 1995 - Present, In Use
• PHARO (IR J,H,K Imager, Slit Spectrograph, & Coronagraph, PIs: T. Hayward & B. Brandl) 1995- Present, In Use
• PALM-MGSU (Natural Guide Star Tomography Demonstrator, PI: R. Dekany) 2001 - 2006, Decommissioned
• Triplespec (Cross-dispersed simultaneous IR J,H,K Slit Spectrograph, PI: T. Herter) 2003 - Present, In Use
• East Arm Echelle (Visible-light Spectrograph, PI: K. Taylor) 2004 - Present, In Use
• AMNH Project 1640 (An IR High-Contrast Speckle Suppression Optimized Coronagraph IFU Spectrograph, PI: B. Oppenheimer) 2005 - Present, In Use
• SWIFT (Visible-light IFU Spectrograph, PI: N. Thatte) 2005 - Present, In Use
• LAMP (Experimental Fast-Frame-Rate Visible Imager & Polarimeter, PI: N. Law) 2006 - 2007, Decommissioned
• AO Fiber Nuller (Experimental High-Contrast Nulling Interferometer, PI: E. Serabyn) 2006 -, In Use]]
• CWI (Cosmic Web Imager (Near UV IFU Spectrograph), PI: C. Martin) 2006 - , Commissioning
• PALM-3000 (Visible-light Adaptive Optics Upgrade, PI: R. Dekany) 2006 - , Expected 2011
• PTF (Palomar Transient Factory Wide-Field Mosaic Visible-light Imager, PI: S. Kulkarni) 2007 - Present, In Use
• CAMERA Demonstrator (Compact, Robotic, Rayleigh Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics, PI: C. Baranec) 2007 - , Expected 2011
• Delta-doped CCD Demonstrator (Collaboration with JPL; PI: S. Kulkarni) 2009 - , Expected 2010
• SpotCam (PI: J. Johnson) 2009 - , Expected 2010?

Tools

• Experimental "web" for password testing - A. Bouchez 9/29/06

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