NEWFIRMNOAO Extremely Wide-Field Infrared Imager
Welcome to the electronic Users Manual for NEWFIRM. This page provides, or links to, documentation for astronomers who are
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Requests for further information, suggestions for documentation to include on this page, or any other correspondence related to use of NEWFIRM on the 4-m telescopes may be addressed to Ronald Probst, NEWFIRM Instrument Scientist, probst@noao.edu.
NEWFIRM, the NOAO Extremely Wide Field Infrared Imager, images a 28 x 28 arcmin field of view on the NOAO 4-m telescopes. It covers a wavelength range of 1 - 2.4 microns at 0.4 arcsec/pixel. It was offered on the 4-m Mayall telescope on Kitt Peak through April, 2010. It is currently operating on the 4-m Blanco telescope on Cerro Tololo.
Low-surface-brightness galaxy IC342 in J + H + Br gamma. A single, dithered, NEWFIRM field of view, with the fields of various Gemini instruments indicated.
Star-forming nebulea NGC6334. Image taken with the Blanco 4-M telescope on Cerro Tololo, May 24, 2010.
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NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. |
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