VATT Instrumentation and Computers

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

VATT CCD Imager - Vatt4k

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 NUI Galway "Brown Dwarfs and Substellar Objects" group.

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 filters are currently provided.
integrating sphere with continuum and calibration lamps.