FTN Site Specifics

Discipline: 

FTN Site General Information 

  • Haleakala 
  • Maui, Hawaii, USA
  • Airport Code: OGG
  • Local Standard Time: UT-10
  • Latitude: 20.707500 decimal degrees     (D M S): 20° 42' 27''N
  • Longitude: -156.255800 decimal degrees   (D M S): 156° 15' 20.88''W
  • Elevation: 3055 meters (10023 feet) 

Telescope General Information 

  • 2 Meter telescope class
  • Fratio: 10
  • Scale: 97.4 um/arcsec
  • Inverse scale: 10.3 arcsec/mm
  • M1 diameter: 2000 mm
  • M2 diameter: 650 mm
  • Collecting area: 2.75
  • Central obstructed diameter: 705 mm
  • M1-M2 separation: 4100 mm
  • Back focus: 1300 mm
  • Corrected beam diameter: 250 mm
Cameras 
  • Camera    Field of view arcsec(WxH)    Pixel Size (arcsec)
  • Spectral             10.5" x 10.5"       0.15"/pix
  • Apogee Hawkcam    4.7" x 4.7"         0.14"/pix
  • Merope            4.7" x 4.7"        0.14"/pix

 

A FOV file for cameras can be found here for use with Aladin to see relative positions of the imaging and guiding CCDs