====== VATT Instrumentation and Computers ======

Current instruments and computing equipment available at the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope are:

===== VATT CCD Imager - Vatt4k =====

  * [[vatt:vatt4k|VATT4k]]
 

===== Galway Ultra Fast Imager - GUFI =====

  * This L3CCD system, based on an Andor iXon back-illuminated CCD camera, gives a readout time of only 2ms, extremely high time resolutions of up to 400 images a second (subframed), and very low light level sensitivity.
  * Field of view on VATT, 3 arcmin with current focal reducer.
  * On loan from NUI Galway, currently until June 2011.
  * Consult Richard Boyle for technical details, and see the [[http://astro.nuigalway.ie/astro/research/cool_stars_brown_dwarfs_exoplanets/|NUI Galway "Brown Dwarfs and Substellar Objects" group]].
 

===== VATT CCD Spectrograph - VATTSpec =====

  * [[vatt:vattspec|VATT Spectrograph]]
===== Instrument Interface (a.k.a. the Guider Box) =====

  * provides interface to derotator for all the above instruments, as well as offset and slit-viewing guidingwith guide cameras 
  * effective back focal distance, from guide box to focal surface, is 2.000".
  * contains two filter wheels, each holding four 3.48" square filters. Adapters to accommodate 2" and 3" square filters are available.
  * UBVRI, uvby, Vilnius, Sloan, ECAS, and Order Blocking [[vatt:filters|filters]] are currently provided.
  * integrating sphere with continuum and calibration lamps.